Roberta Smith on Donald Judd’s ARTnews Writings: ‘A Great Template for Criticism’

If Minimalist artist Donald Judd is known as a writer at all, it’s likely for one important text—his 1965 essay “Specific Objects,” in which he observed the rise of a new kind of art that collapsed divisions between painting, sculpture, and other mediums. But Judd was a prolific critic, penning shrewd reviews for various publications throughout his career—including ARTnews. With a Judd retrospective going on view this Sunday at the Museum of Modern Art in New York,