ABOVE: works by Richard Tuttle on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. From Left: Purple Octagonal (1967), Four (1987), and W Shaped Yellow Canvas (1967).

There’s an entertaining look at the current Richard Tuttle retrospective taking place at SFMoMA right now, in Time magazine of all places. It’s a little break from the “What Diet Would Jesus Go On?” cover stories that normally grace the ripe newsweekly, looks like. Anyway, the article discusses Tuttle’s improbable career arc and the various obstacles therein, most notably a curt dismissal by New York Times art poobah Hilton Kramer in the mid 70s, who summarized the general consensus of critics by declaring that “so far as art is concerned, less has never been as less as this.”

Well 30-odd years later, Tuttle’s art—small, precise, straightforward—is big, so to speak. The current show in San Francisco will make its next stop at the Whitney as part of its two-year itinerary, which will also take it to Des Moines, L.A., Chicago, and Dallas. The SFMoMA has a good online exhibit so you can let your fingers do the walking if you aren’t going to San Francisco. Wear flowers in your hair anyway, if you like.

LINK: Time Magazine > The Man of Small Things