Expanded Expansion is the only work by Hesse that the Guggenheim owns, acquired in 1975 through a donation by the artist's sister Helen Charash. The museum first showed the sculpture in its 1972 ...

Rope Piece, 1970 (the year Hesse died, at age 34), is suspended by wires: Lengths of rope of varying strand widths, covered with latex, create bowed lines spanning knotted, gloppy intersections ...

With a large - but largely unnecessary - show, Tate Modern is bringing the work of Eva Hesse to the UK, where it has not been seen en masse since 1979. Hesse died in 1970, at the age of 34, just ...