an excuse to get to new york
Martin Puryear
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As if I needed another excuse for a trip to New York, there’s the Puryear exhibition at MoMA. Tyler Green’s been doing a series of posts at Modern Art Notes putting Puryear in perspective; today’s post is about the connection between Puryear’s sculpture and minimalist painting. I’m an unabashed fan of minimalism (surprise!) and loved this sentence in Green’s post: “Of course to this day Puryear’s sculptures are reductive, almost tidy in their banishment of anything even potentially, remotely extraneous.”