Sharon Hecker
  • Bio
  • Curating
  • Writing
  • Speaking
  • The Hecker Standard
  • Contact
Select Page
An essay on the role of Joseph Pulitzer Jr. as an early collector of postwar Italian art.

An essay on the role of Joseph Pulitzer Jr. as an early collector of postwar Italian art.

by Sharon Hecker | Apr 13, 2017 | ESSAYS IN EXHIBITION CATALOGS

NEW ESSAY: “Attorno al collezionismo dell’arte italiana del dopoguerra in America: il ruolo di Joseph Pulitzer Jr.” in “NEW YORK NEW YORK. Arte Italiana: la riscoperta dell’America” – catalogue of the exhibition now in Milan, at Museo del ‘900 and...
“Back-to-Back: Medardo Rosso, Giovanni Segantini, and the Outsider in Italian Modern Art”

“Back-to-Back: Medardo Rosso, Giovanni Segantini, and the Outsider in Italian Modern Art”

by Sharon Hecker | Sep 18, 2015 | ESSAYS IN EXHIBITION CATALOGS

“Back-to-Back: Medardo Rosso, Giovanni Segantini, and the Outsider in Italian Modern Art” in Orizzonte Nord Sud. Protagonisti dell’arte europea ai due versanti delle Alpi – Leading Figures of European Art North and South of the Alps. 1840-1960, Museo d’arte della...
“Diana Al-Hadid: Regarding Medardo Rosso”

“Diana Al-Hadid: Regarding Medardo Rosso”

by Sharon Hecker | Feb 8, 2014 | ESSAYS IN EXHIBITION CATALOGS

“Diana Al-Hadid: Regarding Medardo Rosso”, catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition Diana Al-Hadid: Regarding Medardo Rosso at Marianne Boesky Gallery, February 8 – March 19, 2014. Essay by Sharon Hecker, Edited by Eugenia Bell.
“Luciano Fabro: Drawing as Dialogue”

“Luciano Fabro: Drawing as Dialogue”

by Sharon Hecker | May 18, 2013 | ESSAYS IN EXHIBITION CATALOGS

“Luciano Fabro: Drawing as Dialogue” in Luciano Fabro. Disegno In-Opera, exhibition catalogue, GAMeC (Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2013) An essay that analyzes Luciano Fabro’s drawings as a form of dialogue...
“Medardo Rosso”

“Medardo Rosso”

by Sharon Hecker | Mar 21, 2003 | ESSAYS IN EXHIBITION CATALOGS

“Medardo Rosso” in Winds of Change: the Milanese Avant-Garde 1860-1900, ed. F. Licht (Naples, FL: The Gilgore Collection, 2003): 84-103 Catalogue entries on several works by Medardo Rosso.
“Medardo Rosso: Ecce puer, 1906”

“Medardo Rosso: Ecce puer, 1906”

by Sharon Hecker | Sep 21, 2002 | ESSAYS IN EXHIBITION CATALOGS

“Medardo Rosso: Ecce puer, 1906” in Leggere l’arte, S. Fugazza, ed. (Piacenza, Galleria Ricci-Oddi, 2002): 79-88. A critical examination of Medardo Rosso’s Ecce puer (1906) and its often contradictory readings by critics and scholars. Read more...

Watch a talk by Sharon Hecker at New York Studio School

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWBtSwSonP8

Watch a talk by Sharon Hecker at NYU Florence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHmmSDfXC0A

Hear a Talk by Sharon Hecker at the Center for Italian Modern Art

https://vimeo.com/120441561?loop=0

Video: Catalogue Raisonne’ Scholars Association Posthumous Cast Conference Recording Now Available Online

'The Afterlife of Sculptures: Posthumous Casts in Scholarship, the Market, and the Law' was a two-day conference on issues surrounding posthumous casts of sculptures held at the Dedalus Foundation, New York on May 1 and 2, 2018. See more here.