Yearning for a new, more empathetic world? New York Times art critic Aruna D’Souza knows art can lead us there. Watch as Aruna D’Souza examines works in our collection that hold the promise of a better future in her series 5 Pictures for a New World. Eva Hesse learned alongside pioneers of 1960s minimalism in New York like Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Frank Stella, and more. Then she pushed her art in a “radically different direction.” Part of a larger piece Hesse created, Test Piece for "Contingent" plays off of gravity and presents flesh-like material suspended in air. Hesse invited the idea that this sculpture would “decay and crumble over time” as a way to “replicate our human experience.” Aruna D’Souza was the Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in 2022.