David Smith at the Guggenheim

Good review of the current David Smith Centennial at the Guggenheim, with a slideshow of photographs of the sculptor's works installed at the museum. Wish I could go - it looks good. I've liked some, not all of Smith's work over the years, but would love to see a large show like this.

In Ms. Giménez's ultra-clean installation, Smith's mostly modest-size sculptures are set wide apart on the ramps, leaving expanses of white wall. This allows Wright's spiral to assume its famously diffused glow. And it lets Smith's dark metal sculptures be exactly what Ms. Giménez says they are: drawings in space. In short, what you get is a Guggenheim experience as well as a David Smith experience, which add up to a Modernism experience, with all the optical rigor and boutique-spirituality that that implies.