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A Nevelson Revival & New York’s Winter Show

Louise Nevelson is having a moment, with a show at Pace Gallery and jewelry by Celine; meanwhile at the Park Avenue Armory, a trove of treasures gets feted.

Louise Nevelson
Nevelson (pictured in 1974) had a strong market during her lifetime, but most of her buyers were museums that could accommodate the monumental scale of her pieces. Photo: Jack Mitchell/Getty Images
Julie Brener Davich
January 25, 2025

Arne Glimcher, the founder of Pace Gallery, was an upstart 21-year-old when he first encountered Louise Nevelson’s work in the 1960 MoMA show 16 Americans. Nevelson, for her part, was already 60 years old when legendary MoMA curator Dorothy Miller asked her to participate in the exhibition alongside Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella. For that show, Nevelson created Dawn’s Wedding Feast—an entire gallery filled with her signature sculptures and wall pieces made from wooden scraps and painted a solid color (in this instance white, but more frequently in her career, black).