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...print boxes for Nabisco crackers. Fifty million dollars later, the structure is nearly 250,000 sq. ft. of sunlit display space. And much of it will be given over to some of the iciest, most refractory art ever produced--Judd's boxes, Joseph Beuys' piles of felt, Robert Ryman's all-white paintings, Dan Flavin's deliberately plain arrays of fluorescent light tubes...
Most of them are well known: Andy Warhol, Robert Ryman. Others are less so: Blinky Palermo, On Kawara. History has by no means decided that all of them are keepers. Minimalism, earthworks, conceptualism, performance art--all have entered our history without always entering our affections. For the artists who came of age in the 1960s and '70s, Dia: Beacon may become the place that secures their reputations once and for all. It could also become the Lourdes of Postmodernism, a place where we converge to share in an illusion about the power and consequence of their work...
...Antonakos selected the four artists (upon whom time has since granted the benediction of fame) because their modes of working were so disparate. Ryman is the consummate painter, whose variations in white paint on all manner of supports are about the empirical discovery of facture. He has said that "there is never a question of what to paint, but only how to paint." Artschwager (whose work was exhibited in the Carpenter Center earlier this year) creates objects, often boxes, with no clear function, and painted images based on commercial sources. LeWitt has been an avatar of the conceptual art movement...
...Ryman had signed a glass artist's palette, complete with dried patches of mixed paint, and wrapped it in the linen he used to stretch his canvases. LeWitt enclosed a tiny white cube, in which was a scrap of paper with ambiguous instructions: "a line, not straight, corner to corner." Artschwager created within the frame of steel a wooden box that opened onto ever smaller boxes. Buren avoided the responsibility of prediction altogether and had given his box to a friend to fill. Inside, the other artist had lined the box with Buren's signature red-and-white stripes...
...Stephen Antonakos: Time Boxes 2000, with Richard Artschwager, Daniel Buren, Sol LeWitt and Robert Ryman is on display through March 12 at the Rose Art Museum on the Brandeis University campus, at 415 South St. in Waltham. You can get there by taking the Fitchburg line of the commuter rail from Porter Square to Brandeis/Roberts. Hours are Tue. through Sun., 12 to 5 p.m., and Thu., 12 to 9 p.m. Admission is free...