PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksChayka suspects, astutely, that minimalism can be used not just to make complex experiences simpler, but the other way around ... Chayka’s odyssey through the modern minimalist tradition is worthy of a stand-alone text. His study of the \'blank spaces\' explored by the painter Agnes Martin, the architect Philip Johnson, the composer Julius Eastman, and many others is an exercise in grace and fidelity ... Thanks to Chayka, cultural opportunists will not have the last word.
