Collection 1950s–1970s

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One Thing After Another

Ongoing

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Donald Judd. Untitled. 1968. Painted steel, 48 3/8" × 10' × 10' 1" (122.8 × 305 × 307.6 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Simon Askin Fund. © 2024 Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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“Half or more of the best new work in the last few years has been neither painting nor sculpture,” the artist Donald Judd declared in 1964, in his essay “Specific Objects.” The “best new work” was made using industrial materials—steel, vinyl, and aluminum panels, for example—or easily available canvases, and often with an economy of means. “The things I make,” wrote artist Charlotte Posenenske in 1968, “are variable, as simple as possible, reproducible.”

In the mid-1960s, Judd, Posenenske, and the other artists represented in this gallery—many of whom were associated with the Minimalism and Pop art movements—also deployed a variety of methods in their art making, whether providing instructions to technicians, relying on ready-made objects or circumstances, or acting out basic gestures for a camera. Industrial technologies, mathematical systems, rational processes, and serial repetition facilitated new ways of working. “Simply order, like that of continuity,” wrote Judd, “one thing after another.”

Organized by Cara Manes, Associate Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, with Rachel Rosin, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints & Curatorial Affairs.

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Support for the exhibition is provided by the Annual Exhibition Fund. Leadership contributions to the Annual Exhibition Fund, in support of the Museum’s collection and collection exhibitions, are generously provided by Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, the Sandra and Tony Tamer Exhibition Fund, the Kate W. Cassidy Foundation, Alice and Tom Tisch, the Marella and Giovanni Agnelli Fund for Exhibitions, The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art, Eva and Glenn Dubin, Mimi Haas, The David Rockefeller Council, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz, Kenneth C. Griffin, The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis, and Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder. Major funding is provided by The Sundheim Family Foundation.

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