Eva Hesse’s monumental work of art “Expanded Expansion” was kept in storage at the Guggenheim Museum for nearly 35 years. In the 1990s, the work was deemed unexhibitable.

Eva Hesse’s latex and fiberglass pieces from the late 1960s have been reunited from five institutions. Their rapid deterioration makes their future uncertain — which may be their best quality.

Hesse forged her own context. Eva Hesse: Five Sculptures, an exhibition of work from the late 1960s at Hauser & Wirth, in Chelsea, can feel like a forced return to framing the artist as a minimalist.

When art student Leelee Chan, at the time obsessed with painting, first saw Eva Hesse’s artwork Hang Up, she found it ugly and disturbing, but it later inspired her to become a sculptor.