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...works by LeWitt, Ryman, Artschwager and Buren were sealed up inside these steel boxes. Last week they were finally unwrapped and we were there to watch...
...Stephen Antonakos, an artist best-known for his neon installations, invited four of his friends and colleagues-the artists Sol LeWitt, Richard Artschwager, Daniel Buren and Robert Ryman-to fill steel boxes he had mailed to them. Each signed a contract, agreeing not to disclose to anyone the contents of their respective packages until the year 2000. All of the artists save Ryman sent their boxes back to Antonakos without touching the exteriors, which were loosely painted with a white wash. Ryman, true to form, could not resist the aesthetic qualities of his monochrome box, so he covered it with...
...polished linoleum. And he got those effects without losing sight of the muddy pleasure of pigment itself, a fundamental notion of modern painting. In a few inches of sailcloth or the slip worn by his Girl at Mirror, he could put white paint through as many adventures as Robert Ryman does in his snow-flurry abstractions. As for his pieties, they turn out sometimes to be the same ones fundamental to civil society. By nothing less than an actual vote among Post readers, Saying Grace was his most popular canvas. In a flyblown city restaurant, a boy and his grandmother...
...March 19, 2000: "Twenty-five Years of Greater Boston Art: The Lois Foster Exhibition of Boston Area Artists," "Stephen Antonakos: Time Boxes 2000, with Richard Artschwager, Daniel Buren, Sol LeWitt and Robert Ryman...
Compared to the '95 Biennial, which featured such American greats as Richard Serra, Robert Ryman, Agnes Martin and Cy Twombly, Phillips and Neri have placed more emphasis on newly emerging artists. This generational shift seems exceptionally welcome in light of the rather uncompelling contributions by the '97 Biennial's more well-known practitioners--including Bruce Nauman, Francesco Clemente and Dan Graham. A notable exception, Ilya Kabakov is one of the few older artists in the current exhibition whose seniority is reflected in the quality of his work. Perhaps overly ambitious for its context, his wistfull installation of a crumbling hospital...