Sheila Hicks Takes The Pompidou
Lauren Collins, The New Yorker
March 2018
“At eighty-three years old, Sheila Hicks, born in the summer of 1934, in Hastings, Nebraska, is the artist that everyone is fighting over,” the French newspaper Le Figaro wrote recently, listing Hicks as one of twenty cultural figures who would “make Paris in 2018.” Hicks has been on a streak. Her monumental works have recently appeared on the High Line (fibre-wrapped tubes like giant pool noodles) and in the gardens of Versailles (where she cocooned a statue of Proserpine in blue, purple, and orange ribbons). “Life Lines,” an exhibition devoted to her seven decades of work, opened last month at the Pompidou, in Paris. […]