Carol Bove at Guggenheim
Carol Bove’s retrospective is currently at the Guggenheim — the show rethinks minimalist sculpture by staging her pieces inside the museum’s spiral and testing how objects and architecture converse Carol Bove’s Guggenheim Retrospective Reimagines Minimalist Sculpture. It’s a smart stop if you care about how exhibition design reframes material histories.
Carol Bove’s first museum survey, presented as her largest exhibition to date, is on view March 5–August 2, 2026 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum guggenheim.org. The presentation fills Frank Lloyd Wright’s spiral rotunda with site-specific installations artdaily.cc and brings together more than 100 works spanning over 25 years of the artist’s practice. newsbreak.com The show was organized by curators Katherine Brinson, Charlotte Youkilis, and Bellara Huang, who intersperse Bove’s sculptures with “para-artworks” and archival pieces by figures such as Lionel Ziprin, Agnes Martin, and Bruce Conner. nationaltoday.com Curators installed the exhibition in an inverted chronology, placing recent large-scale works near the beginning of the ramp to reframe Bove’s development artnews.com; at the March 5 opening Guggenheim union members staged a rally at a reception hyperallergic.com, and the artist listed a Greenwich Village apartment for sale while preparing the survey. msn.com
