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The Denver Art Museum is set to unveil three reinstalled collections Sunday in its Hamilton Building.

Your first though before entering the latest show in the East Village outpost of the Brant Foundation might be, "Um, okay, it’s another Andy Warhol exhibit."

His angle was The End. A rollicking disquisition on Minimalism’s debt to science fiction, B-movies, and the second law of thermodynamics, Robert Smithson’s Artforum debut, “Entropy and the New Monuments,” linked the so-called primary structures of artists such as Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, and Sol Dewitt to entropy, that universal force of decay, which erodes everything into an all-engulfing sameness. “Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future,” Smithson wrote. Cynical, sure, but his essay glimmers wit...

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The sculpture is an homage to Dan Flavin’s untitled (to Barnett Newman) two (1971), which was a light portrait of Newman, whose studio used to overlook the triangle.