Contemporary Art and Culture
During a studio visit with Carol Diamond before her upcoming exhibit, Carol Diamond: Go Ahead, Make Me (Equity Gallery), our discussion of her recent sculptures elicits the term “Janus heads”–not because she makes two-headed portraits, but because each dynamic work encapsulates a battle of competing forces that hint at varying degrees of figuration and diverse human backstories.
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ANISH KAPOOR: MIRROR WORKS EXHIBITION AT LISSON GALLERY
504 West 24th Street, Tue – Sat 10 am to 6 pm
February 11 – April 11, 2026
Anish Kapoor’s exploration of scale, color, volume, and materiality anchors this presentation of mirror works from 2010 to the present. Monumental stainless-steel sculptures and painted mirrors immerse viewers in destabilizing reflective environments shaped by spatial illusion. Highlights include Non Object (Plane) (2010), a folded steel form that blurs object and reflection; Double Vertigo (2012), whose concave surfaces disorient perception; Untitled (2023), structured around a reflective void; and Stave (Red) (2015), where lacquered color intensifies spatial presence. Wall-mounted mirror sculptures further collapse boundaries between painting, sculpture, and architecture. The exhibition follows Kapoor’s Jewish Museum show and coincides with his SCAD Museum of Art presentation.
In Rebecca Welz’s recent sculpture series, the sculptor reflects on the global phenomena of people who have been displaced from their homes due to a wide range of hardships—political, economic, climate change. The steel structures in her Displacement series represents a quest for safety and belonging. This body of work is featured at the June Kelly Gallery through January 4th, 2022.
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The Japanese born Brooklyn based sculptor Yasue Maetake largely draws on laws of nature like gravity, as well as on her Japanese cultural heritage like Butoh dance/theater. The artist describes for Art Spiel her artistic impetus, layered ideas, and elaborate process.
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Elisa D’Arrigo‘s upcoming exhibition, “In the Moment,” at Elizabeth Harris Gallery will feature her new body of ceramic work. Her vessel forms breathe with inner life, their cylindrical shapes are both tumultuous and vivacious – like a body, organism, or life itself. The artist shares with Art Spiel some of her thought and work processes as well as some insight on her upcoming show.
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