“For years, minimalism shows were rare events. In just the last year or two, however, they’ve hit the big time, big-time… The current flood of minimalism exhibitions indicates a new desire to come to grips with the movement as a whole and to rethink some of the narrow polemics that have built up around it. Instead of being part of the live, ferocious debates of contemporary art, with people choosing sides for and against, minimalism is now the subject of measured, art-historical contemplation. Which means it has truly arrived — next stop, official, unquestioned Old Master status.”