Richard Tuttle: thinking big at a quiet moment

When we say an artist is having a moment, we tend to think big—major commissions, large museum surveys, widespread gallery interest and so on. Yet there are also quiet, contemplative moments, ones that emerge absent of the artificial pressure of a public relations blitz. Richard Tuttle, the US post-Minimalist artist credited with softening the rigid square into something more casual, is having just such a moment in New York with two exhibitions, one at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and t