Chief curator Michael Auping serves up the sculpture of the past four decades Texas-style. In fact, this happily outsize thirty-work exhibition might just give Donald Judd’s fabled Chinati Foundation a run for its money. Auping sets the various generations from Cornell to Koons in dialogue, bringing together pieces by Dan Flavin, Kiki Smith, and Rachel Whiteread, among others. But the true highlights are a new installation by Robert Gober and an old one—now rarely shown—by Bruce Nauman. Left or Standing, Standing or Left Standing, from Nauman’s first show at Castelli, in 1971, comprises three rooms whose irregular shapes and harsh yellow lighting create perceptual shifts and purple afterimages—sure to color the viewer’s appreciation of the rest of the show.
