Dallas Museum of Art
2008
May 18–Aug 24, 2008
On Kawara: 10 Tableaux and 16,952 Pages at the Dallas Museum of Art featured his largest-scale paintings, a group of which made reference to the United States' moon landings in July 1969, the first time that humankind was able to see its habitat within the context of the universe. Also exhibited were works from his iconic Today Series, featuring the years 1966, 1976, 1986, 1996, and 2006. Kawara's recordings of his daily activities, the places he has been, whom he has met, and what he has read, in diary-like accumulations of facts and images, are part of a lifelong process of the artist as witness to the age in which he lives. Designed by the artist, this exhibition offered audiences a rare chance to experience the paradoxically straightforward and complex art of one of the most important figures of the twentieth century.