Sculpting Sounds: Stella Riffs on Scarlatti Sonatas

The Wall Street Journal
by Kelly Crow

June 30 - July 1, 2012

New York artist Frank Stella's new sculptures come with their own soundtrack. Mr. Stella rose to fame a half-century ago by painting pinstripes on canvases cut to look like geometric shapes—a move that helped push postwar art beyond the roiling brush strokes of Abstract Expressionism toward the flatter simplicity of Minimalism. He later created prints and sculptures that explore ideas of geometric abstraction.