Practice question · Select all that apply
Which of these are true of On Kawara's Today series?
Hints
- Three describe the rule; one contradicts the reason the works name cities as well as dates.
- The works were made wherever the artist happened to be.
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- A. A painting not completed by midnight of that day was destroyed
- C. It began in 1966
- D. Each painting names the date on which it was made
Why
The fourth is wrong in a way that matters. The paintings were made in whatever city the artist was in, and the language and date convention follow the place, which is why the series is a record of a life's movement as well as of its days, and why a fixed studio would have destroyed half its content.
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