“I wanted something physical, almost painful, passionate,” he said of his first major work, “American Moon,” presented in 1960. That was just the beginning.
In the world of conceptual art, there are good ideas, bad ideas, and then there are Minujín’s ideas. Perhaps the most impressive thing about this survey of Argentinian Marta Minujín is that many of those ideas were actually realized—mostly in a place that New York critics hadn’t been paying much attention to until recently, Buenos Aires.
Feeling the urgency to create even after more than six decades, 88-year-old Jim Dine doesn’t take holidays as there is just too little time, preferring instead to put his hands to work each day to paint, sculpt, draw, make prints or write poems.