At MoMA, Brancusi Is Lost in Space
Aruna D’Souza | Hyperallergic | 5th November 2026
With Centre Pompidou being renovated many of its Brancusi works are showing in New York. They are “glorious” when seen firsthand. Up close, says one critic, he comes across as “less a purist … than a craftsman enamored of the sweaty satisfactions of cutting stone and wood.” And bases mattered to him. Compared to his polished modernist sculptures they sometimes seem “gloriously mismatched”. Ever the visionary, Brancusi was demonstrating the potential in disjunction and dissimilar textures.