KAWARA, On

An austere Conceptual Artist, Kawara has spent his professional life doing (or redoing) only a few works: painting in sans-serif letters the words for the day's date (in the language of wherever he is currently staying), sending local picture postcards on whose backsides he stamps I got up at [at whatever time], recording separate sheets with the names of the individuals he met that day, and posting telegrams that read I am still alive/ On Kawara . (Editions Rene Block in...