The artist is present.

Beas is 80 and painting still. He can walk a viewer through every canvas: the material choices, the apparatus, the physics each painting encodes. His notebooks, the 1974 apparatus drawings, and recorded interviews on technique accompany the collection. Each work carries DNA-based authentication.

Af Klint never saw her recognition. Maier never knew hers was coming. This is the rare case where the discovery can be made in the artist’s presence — and with his participation.