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Pioneering art collector and gallery owner Virginia Dwan dies at age 90.

Grain elevators and water towers abound in a sprawling retrospective of German photography duo Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Met.

DURING THE FIRST DECADE of Artforum, two comments appeared in its pages that have long troubled me. They occur in well-known interviews, the first with Tony Smith, published in December 1966, the second with Eva Hesse, published in May 1970, and in each case the artist associates Minimalism with Nazism. Although no explanations are given, the connections are not meant as condemnations—on the contrary. So what relationships are intimated?1“Talking with Tony Smith” was occasioned by two shows curated by Samuel Wagstaff Jr., who “culled” the six-page interview “from a summer and fall�...

Pioneering dealer Virginia Dwan, who was instrumental in establishing the Minimalism, Conceptualism, and Land Art movements, has died age 90.

Do you identify with any particular school of painting?I DON’T THINK I EVER DID any traditional paintings—except what you call Abstract Expressionism. I most loved de Kooning and Gorky, but that was personal—not for what I could take from them. But I know the importance of Kline and Pollock and now I would say Pollock before anyone, but I didn’t feel that way when I was growing up. Oldenburg is an artist that I really believe in. I respect his writings, his person, his energy, his art, the whole thing. He has humor, and he has his own use of materials. But I don’t think I’ve taken ...