Sculptor Joel Shapiro, who traversed the boundaries of Minimalism with his emotive, large-scale bronze works, died on Saturday, June 14 at the age of 83. Shapiro’s passing was announced by Pace Gallery, which has represented the artist since 1992. His daughter told the New York Times that Shapiro died from acute myeloid leukemia. Shapiro was commissioned to create more than 30 large-scale sculptures in his lifetime, including “Loss and Regeneration” (1993) for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and “Blue” (2019) for the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Today, the artist’s works are housed in the collections of some of the world’s major arts institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Getty in Los Angeles, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. “His early sculptures expanded the possibilities of scale, and in his mature figurative sculptures, he harnessed the forces of nature themselves,” said Pace Gallery founder Arne Glimcher, who described Shapiro a...