CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/21/2026

‘Carol Bove’ is new from Guggenheim New York

Offenbach Barcarolle (2019) is reproduced from Carol Bove, the Guggenheim Museum’s slip-cased, two-volume catalog to the artist’s current retrospective, on view in the rotunda through August 2, 2026. Published to accompany the first museum survey of Bove’s multidisciplinary work, volume one is a catalog of scholarly essays with supplementary visual material, while volume two is an artist’s book of details and collaged elements, conceived by Bove. Beyond this already generous presentation, each book features a unique diamond-shaped paper element, hand-cut by the artist, attached to the slipcase beneath a die-cut void. Of the “collage sculptures,” curator Katherine Brinson writes, “Channeling the romantic connotations of the runi, the hunks of scrap function as gestural marks, arranged by the artist in unfurling, almost ecstatic gestures that evoke the winged Nike of Samothrace or the outflung energy of Baroque marble figures. Imprinted by their onerous life in the world, the rusted steel sheaves selected by Bove index the toll of labor and the passage of time.”