Large, heavy, and imposing yet silent, elegant, and gracious, Richard Serra’s sculptures don’t just occupy a space—they make it. No greater example of that exists than Running Arcs (For John Cage), three towering steel forms too massive for most galleries. The work will be in the U.S. for the first time, for three months at Gagosian on West 21st Street. Composed of three identical curving steel pieces, each 52 feet long and 13 feet high, the sculpture was shown only once before, in Germany in 1992, the year it was created, and just a few weeks after the death of the American composer and music theorist John Cage, in whose memory it was named. “Obsession is what it comes down to,” said Serra, who died in 2024, at 85. “It is difficult to think without obsession, and it is impossible to create something without a foundation that is rigorous, incontrovertible, and, in fact, to some degree repetitive. Repetition is the ritual of obsession.” —Jeanne Malle