Art
The Pristine and Sensuous World of John McCracken
While most Minimalists sought to eliminate expressive potential, McCracken’s sculptures do quite the opposite.
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Art
Looking Between the Lines of Max Cole’s Abstract Paintings
In the artist’s exhibition Endless Journey, each tiny, delicate mark reads as a meditative act, imbued with rigorous attention, care, and focus.
News
Marfa, Texas Joins National Register of Historic Places
Minimalist artist Donald Judd helped transform the rural desert town into an arts destination, the last thing he wanted.
Books
Stories of Memory, Loss, and Paranoia
In Dorthe Nors’s minimalist fiction, other people are both an opportunity and a threat.
Art
Karen Carson, an Early California Minimalist, Has a New, Kaleidoscopic Vision
Carson’s geometric paintings, inspired by the land of big sky, mimic rolling hills and valleys.
Books
A Minimalism of Ideas, Rather Than Things
In The Longing for Less author Kyle Chayka searches for a minimalist mindset that isn’t “obsessing over possessions or the lack thereof but challenging our day-to-day experience of being in the world.”
Art
Why Did the Guggenheim Decommission a Donald Judd?
The Guggenheim recently repurposed the term, “decommissioning,” to designate works in its permanent collection that it has “deemed to be non-viable.”
Film
Minimalism Takes Flight
Within the many intersections between cinema and minimalism, there's a fascinating thread of nonfiction filmmakers depicting air travel.
Art
The Hacker Aesthetic of Minimalist Code
Ask most programmers about minimalist programming and they invoke the word elegance, yet working with extreme code minimalism often means exposing the chaotic underside of our engagement with logic.
Art
How Normie Minimalism and Farmhouse Chic Took Over Contemporary Design
An aesthetic of minimalism in architecture and interior design has been sold to consumers of high design for decades now in the pages of Dwell and the endlessly scrollable interfaces of websites like designboom and ArchDaily.
Art
Getting to Noh: Myths of Japanese Minimalism
The stereotype of Japan as a “less-is-more” kind of country is, in fact, quite misleading.
Podcast
Our Obsession With Less and Its Co-option by Silicon Valley
Kyle Chayka’s new book, The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism, probes the corporate world’s love of minimalist design and what it might mean.