PITTSFIELD — Were the Shakers O.G. Minimalists? If you asked the late artist Donald Judd, he of the perfectly proportioned floating steel boxes, I’d bet the answer would be yes. Judd, a charter member of the Minimalist art cadre in the early 1960s was a known admirer of their stripped-down style. Two years after he died, a 1996 show of his furniture at Long Island’s Parrish Museum shared billing with an array of Shakerware. Read more here.
