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cess go to her head. Though she was
not an observant Jew, she remained
a steady patron of her people. On
loan from the Osaka City Museum of
Modern Art in Japan is her hulking
Holocaust memorial sculpture Homage
to 6,000,000 I (1964), which dem-
onstrates her forays into Minimalist
art. Sixty slightly curved and stacked
cubes, each filled with its own unique
contents, and all painted black, illus-
trate the artist's deep solemnity about
the tragedy that befell her people. Also
on display is a model of the white-
boxed ark she built for Temple Beth-El
in Great Neck, N.Y., in 1971.
But the showstopper in the Jewish
Museum's comprehensive exhibit is
undoubtedly Mrs. N's Palace, which
Nevelson began in 1964 and com-
pleted in 1977 and is on loan from
the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The
enormous work — an all-black wood-
en house, with an exterior "garden,"
an interior filled with king and queen
figurines and a mirrored glass floor
— encapsulates many of the strains in
Nevelson's public and private life. The
title of the work alludes to her mater-
nal, convivial presence to the neighbor-
ing children by her Spring Street home
(where she was known as "Mrs. N"),
while its structure knowingly gazes at
her own mortality. Like an Egyptian
monarch, Nevelson built a palatial

tomb containing all she wished to take
with her into the world to come.
Walking around Mrs. N's Palace,
peeking into its gothic, cavernous inte-
rior and taking in its immense power,
one can't help but wonder if her out-
sized public persona was really a "lie"
after all. More likely, the work seems a
testament to the congruity of her pri-
vate and public life. She owned her art,
and her art owned her.

"The Sculpture of Louise
Nevelson: Constructing a
Legend" runs through Sept.16 at
the Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth
Avenue at 92nd Street, in New
York City. Museum Hours are
11 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. Saturdays-
Wednesdays; 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Thursdays; closed Fridays. $12
adults, $10 senior citizens, $7.50
students; free on Saturdays.
(212) 423-3271 or
www.thejewishmuseum.org .
Following its New York City
showing, the exhibition will
travel to San Francisco, where it
will be on view at the Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco (the
de Young Museum) from Oct. 27,
2007, through Jan.13, 2008.