Art
This week, we explore the notion that less is more as Minimalisms, yes, plural, is the focus of this Sunday Edition. While most people may associate the term “Minimalism” to the modern art movement that originated in 1960s New York, the history of the design tendency for less is more
Music
Today 87 years old, Radigue worked within the tradition of La Monte Young and John Cage in the 1960s and ’70s, moving between Paris and New York City.
Books
Art critic Barry Schwabsky's new book presents a global survey of contemporary landscape painting.
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Strangely, of the three works visitors are most likely to bump into first after entering the National Gallery Singapore to view its show on Minimalism, none of them feel explicitly Minimalist.
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HONG KONG — Rasheed Araeen is a Pakistan-born, Britain-based, self-described "Afro-Asian" artist whose art and writing are so wildly subversive, it's taken 40 years for the critical dialogue to catch up to his tremendously prescient but fractious vision.
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The term Dansaekhwa, or “monochrome painting,” may elude readers unfamiliar with Korean, but it represents arguably Korea’s most important art movement of the late 20th century
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John Ferren did not so much work outside the mainstream as circle it continuously in a personal and highly meditative quest for meaning.
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Robert Morris has comported himself for decades as the least minimal of the original minimalists.
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LONDON — In 2013, Prem Sahib transformed Southard Reid gallery into a club.
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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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Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated by aesthetes the world over. In order to purify ourselves after the rampant commercialism and visual over-stimulation of the past month, we devote this day to the solemn contemplation of square and rectangular Minimalist sculptures.
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Judy Chicago, arguably the world’s best known Feminist artist, continues to fiercely divide opinion. Her detractors accuse her work of being simplistic and singleminded, while loyalists praise her unwavering activism. The artist has fostered a reputation for being independent and uncompromising.