One Fine Show: ‘7 Mile + Livernois’ at the Detroit Institute of Arts
Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside of New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention.
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The late Peter Schjeldahl wrote that the works of Donald Judd are “almost routinely beautiful, but coldly and even imperiously so, as if their quality were none of your business.” This is another way of saying there’s a masculinity to their style, which comes with the attendant inflexibility and baggage. It would be harder to pathologize whiteness, as it’s more defined by absence—of ethnicity, of morality—but given the way that Judd sought to........
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