Curated by Ann Goldstein

“On the cover of Arts in March 1967,” says MoCA senior curator Ann Goldstein, “there was this question: ‘A Minimal Future?’ Minimalism was in the process of being canonized and assessed, and the writers were asking whether it was just another ism or more of a structural change in artmaking. I’m interested in posing that question again.” And it’s about time: These 150 works by forty artists constitute the first large-scale reexamination of Minimalism at an American museum. Goldstein’s sweep runs from 1958 to 1968; surprise inclusions like Claes Oldenburg appear alongside canonical names. The catalogue features essays by Diedrich Diederichsen, James Meyer, and others. Expect to find more than one Minimalism and a detailed understanding of a consequential body of ideas.

— David Frankel