The Brooklyn Rail

Niki Charitable Art Foundation

Niki often talked about what would happen after she died. She and her husband Jean Tinguely married and remained married mostly to protect each other. This created a protective wall: each knew the other would do their best to preserve the art and respect each other’s vision. If you wanted to or not, if you were around them, you had to listen to their multiple ever-changing plans. As Tinguely liked to say, they were “megalomaniac artists!”