News
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Brooklyn Rail
“David Smith: No One Thing”
“Another person is a universe of difference largely unknown to us, and the challenges that we encounter in regarding the other can have dire consequences. To see sculptures that shrink neither from difference nor similarity, and that celebrate the various trains of inventive formal play in Smith’s contrasting presences of material, shape, and color, brings home the possibility of bridging that gap.”
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The New York Times
“What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in February”
“You could also use these very same pieces, most of them seven to nine feet tall, to prove that Smith was really a painter. The many rings of “Circles Intercepted,” a kind of oversize target or stop sign, provide the occasion to juxtapose yellow and green, white and gray, beige and pink, while “Zig I” gets the lion’s share of its energy from the vigorous, purplish-brown squiggles that cover every inch of it.”
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Flaunt Magazine
“HAUSER & WIRTH | PRESENTING TWO NEW EXHIBITIONS IN THE HEART OF NEW YORK”
“In the laterally adjoining exhibit, David Smith’s garden of sculptures can be seen on the top floor of Hauser & Wirth’s 22nd Street location. Viewers are inviting explore Smith’s new world of construction, which combines the artist’s technical skill acquired during World War II building tanks, with his genre stretching metalworking practice.”
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Whitehot Magazine
“David Smith: A Man of Steel’s Closing Statements”
“Among the works are 1962’s Primo Piano II, a 13-foot long piece in steel and bronze, the largest work in the collection…The piece hews to Smith’s preoccupation with natural forces in the context of an industrial footing, particularly in its employ of a square plate angled as if to capture the sun’s energy. At Hauser & Wirth, it is positioned near a window on the gallery’s fifth floor to do just that.”
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Boston Globe
“David Smith’s ‘Medals for Dishonor’ at Harvard Speak to the Horrors of War, and our times”
“[Smith] made the medallions as fascists seized power in Germany and Italy, and as the Nazis prepared for all-out war. But history repeats itself, Smith knew. Medals had glorified conquest for millennia, since at least Ancient Greece. He would turn the convention back on itself, and use it to condemn.”
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New York Review of Books
“The Modern Hephaestus”
“When Brenson’s more than eight-hundred-page book is taken together with the three-volume catalogue raisonné of Smith’s sculpture that appeared in 2021, I think it’s fair to say that we are at long last beginning to grasp the extent of his achievement. “
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The Wall Street Journal
“‘Songs of the Horizon: David Smith, Music, and Dance’ Review: Rhythms of Abstraction”
“The elegantly installed show is informative, with some rarely seen inclusions. It confirms Smith’s connection to the region and reminds us that while he thought of himself as a sculptor, he never stopped drawing or painting. ”
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The Brooklyn Rail
“Songs of the Horizon: David Smith, Music, and Dance”
“Smith’s engagement with place, in particular, this place, in Upstate New York, meant involvement with a community. An exhibition at the Hyde Collection, in Glen Falls, New York—about 20 miles from Smith’s residence—is the first to focus on how music and dance influenced his maturation.”
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Mountain Lake PBS
“David Smith’s sculptures dance at the Hyde Collection”
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Lake George Mirror
“The Mind of the Welder”
“In place of the Adirondacks and New York City, think nature and custom, or physis and nomos, as the ancient Greeks labeled those two supposedly discordant worlds. In the cellist, both worlds, however much they may oppose one another, are embodied.”
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Wall Street Journal
“‘David Smith’ Review: The Way of the Welder”
“A compelling portrait of a complicated, volatile man emerges—passionate, unpredictable and totally dedicated to his work. At its best, Mr. Brenson’s text contextualizes the citations from the memoirs, letters and interviews, creating a coherent narrative and filling in gaps.”
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BOOKFORUM
“The season’s outstanding art books”
“I’m not sure I have ever seen a catalogue raisonné as beautiful, as magnificent, as the new publication on the oeuvre of the great American sculptor David Smith.”
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World Art News
“The Hyde Collection Brings Bolton Landing Sculptor Back Home”
“Songs of the Horizon: David Smith, Music, and Dance” opens The Hyde Collection’s Summer 2023 exhibition season, in celebration of the Museum’s 60th anniversary.
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The Brooklyn Rail
“David Smith: Follow My Path” By Jonathan Goodman
“Smith knew sculpture for what it was: an object in its own right, and, traditionally, a memorial to those who preceded those currently living, now gone.”
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David Smith: Follow My Path
Hauser & Wirth New York, 69th Street Gallery
April 27 - July 30 2021
Visit Hauser & Wirth for more information on the exhibition.
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David Smith at Bolton Landing and Storm King Art Center
In this online feature, archival photographs and text illuminate historical touch points between Smith’s singular engagement with sculpture and landscape, and his enduring legacy at Storm King.
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Timeless Clock, The Anderson Collection at Stanford University
For their online series, “Learning from Home”, The Anderson Collection at Stanford presents an in-depth study of David Smith’s sculpture Timeless Clock, in their permanent collection, written by Jennifer Field, Executive Director of the David Smith Estate.
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David Smith. Sprays
The in-depth digital presentation celebrates Smith's innovative approach to the newly available medium of aerosol paint with six virtual museum loans alongside significant works spanning from 1958 until 1964.
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The Art Newspaper
“A behind-the-scenes look at Storm King in the off-season” By Gabriella Angeleti
March 1st, 2020
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The Burlington Magazine
“David Smith: Field Work & David Smith: Sculpture 1932–1965” By Johnathan Vernon
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David Smith: Dialogues
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
November 23, 2019
Join YSP for a day considering ideas arising from David Smith’s work, including his relationship to landscape and influence on other artists. This international event features presentations by inspirational Smith experts from across the world including Anne Wagner, David Anfam, Jyrki Siukonen, Marin Sullivan, Dawna Schuld, Tim Martin, Jed Morse and Jon Wood.
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Studio International
“David Smith: Field Work” By David Trigg
November 13, 2019
“This is a compelling show that reminds us that, though known best for his welded-steel sculptures, Smith identified as a painter.”
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Wall Street International Magazine
“David Smith”
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David Smith: Field Work
Hauser & Wirth Somerset
September 28, 2019 – January 5, 2020
Visit Hauser & Wirth for more information on the exhibition.
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Curator Clare Lilley on David Smith
July 20th, 2019
On the occasion of the landmark exhibition ‘David Smith: Sculpture 1932–1965’, Hauser & Wirth spoke with curator Clare Lilley, Yorkshire Sculpture Park Director of Programme, about the lasting impact of Smith's deeply humanist vision.
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ARTnews
“With Catalogue Raisonné Underway, David Smith Estate Names Jennifer Field Executive Director” By Alex Greenberger
July 18, 2019
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Apollo Magazine
“Drawing in space – the ingenious structures of David Smith” By Rob Weinberg
July 17th, 2019
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The Economist
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The Sunday Times UK
“David Smith, Yorkshire Sculpture Park review — the Michelangelo of welding”
July 7, 2019
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The Art Newspaper Podcast
The Art Newspaper interviews Clare Lilley and Candida and Rebecca Smith on the exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
June 21, 2019
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ARTnews
‘It Will Explode with Color’: David Smith Sculpture Survey Comes to England By Claire Selvin
June 6, 2019
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ARTnews
“David Smith Estate Restructures, with Artist’s Daughters at Helm” By Andy Battaglia
July 10, 2018