Eva Hesse at the opening reception for ‘Eccentric Abstraction,’ 1966 (photo by Norman Goldman, all images courtesy Zeitgeist Films) Telling the story of Eva Hesse’s life and work presents one major ...

“It has to be said, there are no points to be won from liking Hesse nowadays.” This rueful assessment of the novelist Hermann Hesse, quoted in the opening pages of Gunnar Decker’s new biography, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 5—A jury on Wednesday found Gabriel B. Hesse not guilty of murdering his father, Halsey Hesse Jr., formerly of Ellington, who ...

Her compositions by this time were dynamic and full of action, communicated through urgently scribbled and uninhibited forms that at times suggest windblown fields of wildflowers scattered among ...

A comprehensive new documentary on Eva Hesse, one of the most innovative 1960s artists, will premiere in New York in April. Hesse’s Jewish family fled Nazi Germany in the 1940s and settled in New York ...

Hermann Karl Hesse (1877-1962), a Nobel Prize-winning German novelist and poet, is best known for his inspired explorations of self-understanding, spiritual realization, and psychology, particularly ...

A rich, insightful biography shows how Hermann Hesse overcame self-hatred, ‘freed the German spirit’ and became a guru for hippies In the early 1920s, the German novelist and poet Hermann Hesse set ...

Like visiting an aging parent after years away, going to an Eva Hesse show puts mortality on the mind. The materials of her late career—latex, fiberglass, rubber—decompose, becoming more brittle each ...