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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Anish Kapoor

Streaming on Lisson Gallery

“Artists don’t make objects,” the superstar sculptor Anish Kapoor said in 2008. “Artists make mythologies, and it’s through the mythologies that we read the object.” Kapoor counts his world-renowned mirror-polished sculptures as “objects.” Cast in different colors, with curves concave and convex, Kapoor’s objects mesmerize viewers, who find themselves reflected in a topsy-turvy world. For this exhibition, which spans both of Lisson’s gallery spaces, the centerpiece Tsunami (2018) takes its form from a circle projected onto an hourglass, thus capturing infinity in a void. —E.C.

Anish Kapoor’s work at Lisson Gallery, 138 Tenth Ave, New York © Anish Kapoor. Courtesy Lisson Gallery.