Ara H. Merjian

A new history of Futurism and its fraught ideological ambitions, centred on sculptural experimentation. As the first comprehensive avant-garde of the twentieth century, Italian Futurism sought to integrate modern life with every imaginable aesthetic medium. The detached materiality of sculpture offered a singular proving ground for the drive to merge art and existence. Sculpture's theory and practice offers a distillation...

Helen Frankenthaler: The Moment and the Distance documents an exhibition of the artist's large-scale paintings made between 1960 and 1992. This catalogue documents an exhibition of large-scale paintings by Helen Frankenthaler made between 1960 and 1992, opening in spring 2026 at Gagosian's West 21st Street gallery. Throughout her career, Frankenthaler pushed beyond the boundaries of easel painting to create extraordinary,...