When Constantin Brancusi first saw the New York skyline in 1926, he said, “Why, it is my studio. All these blocks, all these shapes to be shifted and juggled with, as the experiment grows and changes.” Back in Paris, Brancusi spent four decades working from his studio on Impasse Ronsin, which he filled with sculptures, photographs, furniture, pedestals, and tools. He left everything to France when he died in 1957, and the studio became part of the Centre Pompidou’s collection. Now, with the Pompidou closed for renovations, many of its Brancusis will be at MoMA for the largest New York exhibition on the artist in decades. They join works from MoMA’s own collection, including Bird in Space, the sculpture a U.S. customs agent once refused to recognize as art. —Elena Clavarino