Constantin Brancusi spent decades rearranging a studio that was almost as carefully composed as his sculptures.
MoMA’s Brancusi: The Artist and His Studio, opening October 25, will bring works, photographs, furniture, tools and pedestals from the artist’s Paris world to New York. It asks visitors to see the sculptor’s spare, polished forms amid the things that ordinarily disappear from a museum pedestal.
Brancusi left the contents of his studio to the French state. Paris eventually reconstructed the space, and that institution’s temporary closure has helped make this New York presentation possible. It is an unusual opportunity to consider not merely what Brancusi made, but how he arranged things in relation to one another.
The show continues through February 27, 2027. Member previews begin October 22.
Image: MoMA; Martin Seck, photograph of an earlier Brancusi installation, 2019. Source and further details.
