Excerpts from The Believer: Resurrector: Black Square

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Excerpts from The Believer: Resurrector: Black Square

“Gallery-goers might have been outraged not only because of the work’s simplicity—it is a 79.5-centimeter-square canvas bordered thickly in gray and white, filled in with black paint—but because it was not even a square.” - - -A rotating guest column in which writers reexamine critically unacclaimed works of art - - -In 1915, long before the release of Spinal Tap, and longer still before sculptor Anish Kapoor purchased the rights to Vantablack, …