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...minimalist. He made shaped wall reliefs and floor pieces, typically painted in a single color, or two or three adjoining forms, each a different color. They obeyed the minimalist law that art should be a thing that can be apprehended all at once, with no painterly composition and a minimum of visual intricacies. But resolute minimalists like Donald Judd and Robert Morris were also busy expelling from art anything that resembled meaning, any reference to biological form or emotional states outside the work. From the start Tuttle was different. He wanted people to associate things he made with things they...
That kind of work gave Tuttle the insight crucial to his later career: that meaning could be achieved with the bare minimum of means. It paved the way for later pieces like New Mexico, New York #14, in which a looping form is superimposed on an irregular rectangle with a flap that resembles an envelope. In a sense, it is an envelope--what looks at first like a minimalist abstraction is also a yearning road picture, a conflation of the circuit Tuttle travels between his homes in New York and New Mexico and the letters he writes to keep...
...Although I went to public school, and my friends tended to come from working-class families, and although I worked minimum-wage jobs when I was in high school, it would be complete fabrication to say that I didn't grow up with tremendous means and a huge house. So we were different in that sense-very different. I've had a lot of advantages along the way, that is certainly true, like anybody else in this country whose family is in that top one percent...
...will ultimately be effective. But they were still at their persuasive best. Sting, part of the star-studded London concert, below, rewrote the lyrics to Every Breath You Take to send the G-8 leaders a message: "We'll be watching you." And Madonna kept the profanity to a minimum. At the very least, the London reunion of Pink Floyd--playing together publicly for the first time since 1981--might have helped potheads all over the world get off the couch and do something...
Thus did the shadow war against the Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi and the terrorists it sponsors move to a diplomatic front. Meeting for the third time in just eight days, the twelve nations of the European Community voted to expel all Libyan diplomats beyond the "minimum necessary" and to curtail the movements of those who remained. They further agreed that a Libyan declared persona non grata in one country would be unwelcome...