Judd

Artforum

Aria Dean

There couldn’t be a better time to revisit an artist who doggedly confronted form, presence, and politics, both on the page and in ‘real space.

Wall Street Journal

Peter Saenger

When Judd’s works are displayed en masse and given enough space, Ms. Temkin argues, it’s possible to see the visual power and the extraordinary variety of his work...

New York Magazine: Vulture

Jerry Saltz

Judd’s minimalism is the ubiquitous dark design energy of everyday modern life. Always there, even if you never consciously recognize it.

ARTnews

Editors at ARTnews

That aesthetic synergy between the work of Judd, who died in 1994, and MoMA brings a certain piquancy to the museum’s current Judd retrospective, the first anywhere in more than 30 years. The museum has changed—there have been three renovations and expansions since the ’70s—and perhaps so, too, has our understanding of Judd’s steely, boxy objects.

Artsy

Alina Cohen

While there’s admirable integrity in Judd’s detailed specifications regarding color, material, process, and exhibition methods, there’s also a supreme fussiness and self-importance that touches everything the man ever made. The work wants to argue with whatever qualms you might have about it, and you get the feeling that the work would probably win.

Architectural Digest

Madeline Luckel

There are endless details for furniture historians and fans alike to eagerly seek out.

New York Times

Holland Cotter

[Judd's] art, once thought to be too severe to be beautiful, can now be seen to offer pleasures, visual and conceptual, that any audience with open eyes can relate too...

Wall Street Journal

Lance Esplund

an ode to material and spatial transformation

Hyperallergic

John Yau

Judd was committed to abstraction and democracy. His work praises human labor and industrial craftsmanship.

Town & Country

Olivia Hosken

A much needed exhalation.

New Yorker

Peter Schjeldahl

Works by Judd are almost routinely beautiful, but coldly and even imperiously so, as if their quality were none of your business.

Vogue

Emily Farra

about as close as you can get to a truly immersive Judd encounter.

ARTFIXdaily

Editors

Published to accompany the first US retrospective exhibition of Donald Judd’s sculpture in more than 30 years, Judd explores the work of a landmark artist who, over the course of his career, developed a material and formal vocabulary that transformed the field of modern sculpture.

Blackbook

Ken Scrudato

The first U.S. exhibition of [Judd’s] sculptures in more than thirty years. His minimalist forms and surprising use of materials still challenge our perceptions of what indeed might be considered contemporary sculpture.

Forbes: Media

Tom Teicholz

Does justice not only to Judd’s artworks but to his ambition and his intent.

Observer New Review

Helen Holmes

a comprehensive overview of the divisive artist’s grasp on abstraction, space, interpretation and the abolition of illusion.

Brooklyn Rail

Elizabeth Buhe

Bright, beautiful, clear, and succinct.

Art Newspaper

Kenneth Baker

The jacked-up speed of current cultural consumption had made the challenges his work presents more urgent than ever.

Artforum

Hal Foster

Several decades on, the art of Donald Judd is still stunning.

Cultured

Editors

A concise career overview from [Judd's] early paintings to the legacy of his furniture.

C Magazine

Melissa Goldstein

Serves up a master class in the career of the man credited with putting Marfa on the map and transforming the field of modern sculpture.

Domus

Louis Soulard

Concise and focused, MoMA’s “Judd” decidedly places sculpture at the center of his practice, which is too often reduced to minimalism—a term that, much like “sculpture,” he resisted. From early paintings executed in the early 1960s to the untitled metallic sculptures for which he is most often associated, the exhibition emphasizes the artist’s predilection for experimentation, highlighting the various ways through which he used form, materials, and surrounding environments to reshape traditional artistic practices.

Forbes: Media

Natasha Wolff

The companion catalog to MoMA’s retrospective of American sculptor Donald Judd the first in 30 years—is a stunning tribute to the late artist.