Every individual loss carries the resonance of collective loss, the ripple of disappearance.
Donald Judd
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Guggenheim’s Panza Collection Team Responds to “Why Did the Guggenheim Decommission a Donald Judd?”
They write, “We welcome Peter Karol’s extended reflection on topics at stake in the Panza Collection Initiative, which contains many important points, but also contains several errors and misstatements, which we are writing to correct.”
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A Peek Into Some of the Best Art Books of 2019
Paula Rego, John Ruskin, Donald Judd, Lucian Freud, Hokusai, and, yes, Leonardo da Vinci.
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A Mega-Gallery Marks a Quarter Century
I remember David Zwirner Gallery back in the 1990s, before Chelsea, when the New York art world was much smaller and more manageable.
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Serenity and a Few Surprises at the TEFAF New York Spring Fair
There’s something confident about this old-school European fair — the exhibitors let the game come to them.
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The Artist as Acerbic Critic: Donald Judd’s Writings
A new volume of Donald Judd’s art criticism contains previously published essays, rejected ones, and choice passages from his notebooks.
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Photographing the Enchanted Belongings of Dead Celebrities
Assigning value to a cheap, everyday thing that a famous person happened to use can be explained in part by what psychologists call the “law of magical contagion.”
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A Guide to New York City’s Historic Artist Studios
In New York City’s constantly changing urban landscape, artist studios can be ephemeral.
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Minimalist Duets in Sculpture and Dance
During the summer of 1960, dance artists Simone Forti, Nancy Meehan and Yvonne Rainer rented rehearsal space at Dance Players on Sixth Avenue so they could improvise together.
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From Calder to Kruger, the New Whitney Museum’s First Show
The inaugural exhibition at the new Whitney Museum is not perfect, but it is pretty damn good.
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Robert Irwin’s Modern Ruin, Years in the Making, Set to Rise in West Texas
A couple of weeks ago, I went to 101 Spring Street, the former home and studio of Donald Judd, to hear about a new Robert Irwin project to be built at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas.