On Kawara: Silence review – bringing cosmic time to a human scale

Guggenheim, New York
Over 3,000 times over 48 years, the artist painted nothing but the date – but there is nothing mechanical about this show, which reckons with the grandest questions but feels lived in and unpretentiousOne day is enough, Mrs Dalloway teaches us; one day contains everything. That was especially true for On Kawara, the Japanese-born American artist who turned each day into a monument. Day after day, for half a century, Kawara took his paintbrushes and, with the greatest econo