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Wear and care: Ann Temkin charts the complicated terrain surrounding the preservation of Donald Judd's work.
Artforum International, June, 2004 by Temkin, Ann
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THE PEOPLE CLOSE TO DONALD JUDD'S WORK HAVE LONG BEEN AWARE that its apparent sturdiness belies a great vulnerability. In fact, the issue of care and repair constituted an ongoing source of vexation for Judd. In his "Complaints: Part II," published in 1973, the artist was already fulminating ("in a spirit of cheerful revenge") against the stupidity of the shippers and museum staff members who handled his art.
Moreover, he wrote, "the public is awful and the guards don't mind." When the art was new, both its appearance and its industrial fabrication led ...
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