“Wheatfield — A Confrontation,” by Agnes Denes. In 1982, the artist planted and harvested two acres of wheat on the Battery Park landfill in Manhattan. Now, the artist is having a career retrospective ...

Spanning half a century, this retrospective reveals Denes's art to be so forward-looking that some of it remains ahead of its time even today. The Shed’s soft-spoken retrospective, Agnes Denes: ...

Director's Foreword -- Holding the Universe in the Palm of Your Hand / Hans Ulrich Obrist with Agnes Denes -- Agnes Denes: A Future Yet to Be Realized / Emma Enderby -- Philosophical Drawings -- Agnes ...

‘Wheatfield — A Confrontation,’ 1982. (Courtesy the artist and Leslie Tonkonow) When Hurricane Sandy hit New York, flooding the streets and wiping out power below Madison Square, most downtown ...

NEW YORK — We’ll be lucky this art season if we get another exhibition as tautly beautiful as “Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates” at the Shed. And we’ll be right to ponder why this artist, who ...

The cultural centre The Shed celebrates the environmental work of Agnes Denes. For the Hungarian “wheatfield” artist this is the first major retrospective Known as “the wheatfield artist”, for more ...

In the Sixties, when artist Agnes Denes first started embarking on projects involving the environment — ecological endeavors which would come to define the Land Art movement — people thought she was ...

Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. In 1982, New York’s now über bourgeois Battery Park City was a landfill, described ...

Agnes Denes has been a part of some 600 solo and group shows internationally over her 50-year career, but the retrospective Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates, opening today at The Shed in ...

The idea seems unreal, like some fever dream of New Yorkers who long for the pre-9/11 days, when life was simpler and there was room for hope and beauty and spontaneity. But it really did happen: Back ...

In the Sixties, when artist Agnes Denes first started embarking on projects involving the environment — ecological endeavors which would come to define the Land Art movement — people thought she was ...