There’s not been one normal thing in my life,” says Eva Hesse (her words read by Selma Blair) at the start of the documentary “Eva Hesse.” She was “different,” she says later in the film, “alone” ... ...

“Eva Hesse” is a remarkable film about an even more remarkable artist, a woman who playfully and resolutely turned the world of sculpture inside out. That she managed to produce so much work before ...

Watching Eva Hesse, I felt almost certain that I had seen artist Eva Hesse’s work somewhere. The latex and fiberglass sculptures, the thrown-about ropes and the arrangement of her shapes seemed to me ...

Join Cornell Cinema for a mini festival of art films featuring three portraits of iconic 20th century artists: photographer/filmmaker Robert Frank, painter/sculptor Eva Hesse and multifaceted artist ...

Certain artists become famous not just for what they achieve, but for what the art historical consensus believes they could have achieved had they not died young. Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesca ...

Watch a clip from the documentary film "Eva Hesse," written and directed by Marcie Begleiter, and starring Selma Blair as the voice of Eva Hesse. Photo: Zeitgeist Films ...

Born in Hamburg in 1936, the innovative German-Jewish artist Eva Hesse escaped the Nazis but died young in New York. Several witnesses to her final days think she may have reached her artistic peak ...

On paper, artist Eva Hesse’s biography reads like a 20th century nightmare cooked up by a Jewish screenwriter. Hesse was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1936. In 1938, when she was not quite three years ...

Her compositions by this time were dynamic and full of action, communicated through urgently scribbled and uninhibited forms that at times suggest windblown fields of wildflowers scattered among ...