Speaking with a Los Angeles Times reporter in 1989, Lynda Benglis expressed her disdain for a Puritan strain of society that, as she put it, “gets nervous if things are too pleasurable, too beautiful, or too open.” Feminist art’s most significant legacy, for her, was a liberation from such circumscribed notions of taste. Her show of new sculptures at Cheim & Read proved that Benglis is still able to run with that freedom, as she has for the past half-century.
As major exhibitions at Nasher Sculpture Center, National Gallery of Art and the Museum of Cycladic Art honour the iconoclastic sculptor, novelist Hermione Hoby reflects on her six-decade career
“I shared an old rusty portable shower upstairs on the third floor with John Giorno …”
As major exhibitions at Nasher Sculpture Center, National Gallery of Art and the Museum of Cycladic Art honour the iconoclastic sculptor, novelist Hermione Hoby reflects on her six-decade career
As major exhibitions at Nasher Sculpture Center, National Gallery of Art and the Museum of Cycladic Art honour the iconoclastic sculptor, novelist Hermione Hoby reflects on her six-decade career
As major exhibitions at Nasher Sculpture Center, National Gallery of Art and the Museum of Cycladic Art honour the iconoclastic sculptor, novelist Hermione Hoby reflects on her six-decade career
Exhibition review of ‘Lynda Benglis’, a retrospective of the artist’s work that runs at the Hepworth Wakefield until 1 July
Speaking with a Los Angeles Times reporter in 1989, Lynda Benglis expressed her disdain for a Puritan strain of society that, as she put it, “gets nervous if things are too pleasurable, too beautiful, or too open.” Feminist art’s most significant legacy, for her, was a liberation from such circumscribed notions of taste. Her show of new sculptures at Cheim & Read proved that Benglis is still able to run with that freedom, as she has for the past half-century.
Exhibition | Lynda Benglis at the Hepworth Wakefield
