How Niki De Saint Phalle Channeled Pain Into Joyful, Vibrant Works Of Art
The artist said she learned to "translate emotions, fear, violence, hope and joy into painting." An exhibition of her work is now on view at MoMa PS1 in New York.
by Susan Stamberg
Apr 08, 2021
3 minutes
A dream of a day at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. We'd come out of a huge David Hockney exhibition, and my family and I were pooped. So granddaughters, their mother Myndy and I sat on a rim of the Stravinsky Fountain to rest a bit, while my son Josh took our picture.
The fountain makes me smile four years later, as it did the first time I saw it decades ago. It's a 1983 collaboration
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