Sculptural Materiality in the Age of Conceptualism is structured around four distinct but interrelated projects initially realized in Italy between 1966 and 1972: Yayoi Kusama s Narcissus Garden, Michelangelo Pistoletto s Newspaper Sphere (Sfera di giornali), Robert Smithson s Asphalt Rundown, and Joseph Beuys s Arena. These works all utilized non-traditional materials, collaborative patronage models, and alternative modes of display to create a spatially and temporally dispersed arena of matter and action, with photography serving as a...