OBSERVER: Spring’s Best Museum Shows Celebrate the Influence of Daring Experimentalists

By Helen Holmes • 03/02/20, Read the full article →

MoMA's massive Donald Judd retrospective, the Whitney's introduction to Agnes Pelton and a long-awaited Niki de Saint Phalle show: Here's what to see this spring at US museums.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the Guggenheim’s 2018-2019 Hilma af Klint exhibitiontook the world by storm. Art aficionados were mesmerized not only by af Klint’s boldly abstracted spiritualist paintings but by her foresight: she stipulated that her work should not be revealed to the public until 20 years after her death. Like af Klint, Agnes Peltonwas a visionary who used her art to connect to a higher plane of consciousness via quivering biological forms and soft beams of light. In Pelton’s case, her isolation from the art world is what has kept her work essentially unknown in the years following her death in 1961. This exhibition will serve as her formal introduction to the world. Read the full article →

Agnes Pelton, Messengers, 1932. Phoenix Art Museum.