A legendary figure who fought against and transformed the rigidity of the art world, French-American sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle has finally received a well-earned U.S. reception honoring her ...
Lively, chromatic, female: Niki de Saint Phalle’s works are instantly recognizable. The French-born, American-raised artist is one of the most significant female and feminist artists of the 20th ...
When she was in her sixties, the artist Niki de Saint Phalle, looking back on her decades-long career, wrote to a curator, “I wanted the world and the world belonged to MEN. . . . Very early I got the ...
Niki de Saint Phalle, "Tarot Garden" Garavicchio, Italy (all images courtesy the Museum of Modern Art; © 2021 FONDAZIONE IL GIARDINO DEI TAROCCHI; photo by Peter ...
Born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle, child of an American mother (Jeanne Jacqueline Harper) and the Count André-Marie Fal de Saint Phalle (a ruined banker), de Saint Phalle grew up in ...
When the renowned designer Maria Grazia Chiuri debuted her first collection for Christian Dior in September of 2016, it was a big deal: She became the first woman to lead the iconic French label since ...
The Menil Collection will bring the work of one of modern art’s most consistently provocative figures to Houston when it debuts “Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s” on Sept. 10. Highlighting her ...
Everything about Niki de Saint Phalle’s AIDS: You Can’t Catch It Holding Hands, seemed impossible: the childlike treatment of the total horror; an artist seeking humanity from a global community; an ...
The first special exhibition in the newly renovated Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) in La Jolla is a comprehensive look at a single decade in Niki de Saint Phalle's career. Saint Phalle ...
A dream of a day at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. We'd come out of a huge David Hockney exhibition, and my family and I were pooped. So granddaughters, their mother Myndy and I sat on a rim of the ...
Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle, known as Niki de Saint Phalle, was born on October 29, 1930, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, to a French banker and an American mother. The second of five ...