Bob Nickas
Bob Nickas has worked as a critic and curator in New York since 1984.
For over a half century, art produced by living artists has been referred to as “contemporary,” an open-ended box into which anything circa now is casually tossed, like art into storage. Contemporary is an extended span of time with no end in sight, meaning—what exactly? Forever?
If Ad Reinhardt had not made the black paintings would we be here today?