If an artist’s style is a visual representation of their technical abilities, then the painter Deborah Salt should have no problem applying her Minimalist talents to house painting. I mean that sincerely and without sarcasm or irony, for after all, paint itself has no...
The Transcendental Minimalist: Agnes Martin
So I’m at brunch at Figaro (on Vermont) with two of my best (and one of my oldest) friends from out-of-town; and we’re actually sitting outside on the hottest day of the year (I’m imagining the wait-staff making bets on my imminent demise). There’s a very...
B. Wurtz
Even more than, say, Richard Tuttle, to whom he might (uneasily) be compared—B. Wurtz tests a viewer’s relationship to objects and construction of their meaning, significance, even utility. This encompasses relations among objects, and by extension, our relationship...
Retrospect
DONALD JUDD (1928–1994) What is this love of simplicity that gave us the great barren art form of Minimalism and its regressive culmination in the blankness of a simpleton? The real master it serves is industry because simple is just cheaper to make = a...