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Robert Irwin, Sculptor of Barely-There Art That Exists at the Limits of Vision, Dies at 95
His projects included designing Dia:Beacon and a garden for the Getty Center.
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Robert Irwin’s 9 Most Invisible Artworks, From Dots That Disappear to Scrims That Veil Secret Worlds
The artist, now in his 90s, has made playing with matters of perception into a form of art.
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Muses: Songwriter Steve Gunn on Robert Irwin, Hilma af Klint, and ‘The Lightning Field’
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“Blackness in Abstraction”
More than halfway through “Blackness in Abstraction,” an austere photograph by Carrie Mae Weems posed a Mies van der Rohe leather daybed—conjuring a truant psychoanalytic patient, perhaps—against a wa…
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In 1970, Robert Irwin gave up his studio and sold his art supplies. The midcareer painter and sculptor “simply stopped being an artist in those senses,” as he told Lawrence Weschler for the classic bi…
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Rachel Rose on Robert Irwin
As part of the Annual Guide to Galleries, Museums and Artists (A.i.A.'s August issue), we preview the 2016-17 season of museum exhibitions worldwide. In addition to offering their own top picks, our…
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9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week
MONDAY, JUNE 1 Opening: Robert Irwin at Dia:Beacon Light and Space artist Robert Irwin presents his Excursus: Homage to the Square3 at Dia:Beacon (a museum whose masterplan he…
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