Something I’ve been thinking about a lot: On Kawara’s Date Paintings

I’ve seen On Kawara’s Date Paintings before. Three or four at a time usually; in the Glenstone Museum or the National Gallery of Art. I found them to be staid and underwhelming, assuming, as most people probably do, that his painstakingly crafted numerals were the results of stencils or tracing. On a recent trip to