Does minimalism make pop horny? 2019: John Waters Indecent Exposure

27th April 2020UncategorizedAnne Truitt, Indecent Expoure, John Waters, Minimalism, Secret Movie, the gallery B side, Wexner Center for the ArtsMinus Plato

At idle moments during this endless lockdown, have you ever imagined what the artworks in all those museums storage units around the world are getting up to right now? Of course, that troublemaker John Waters has. Writing on the Walker Art Center website back in 2011, he mused: Are prints, sculptures, paintings and photographs relieved […]

Bodies in Minimalism: Gerard Byrne on ataraxia

9th February 2017ataraxia, Donald Judd, Epicureanism, Gerard Byrne, Minimalism, Minus Plato TodayDonald Judd, Epicureanism, Gerard Byrne, MinimalismMinus Plato

I will return in a future post to the 1980s, specifically to the shift from the appropriation practices of the early years of the decade (e.g. Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine) to the participatory art of its end (e.g. Group Material, Felix Gonzalez-Torres), and what happened to the question of sexual difference in the process. I […]