Robert Pincus-Witten

Robert Pincus-Witten (April 5, 1935 – January 28, 2018) was an American art critic, curator and art historian. Pincus-Witten is recognized for having created the term "Post-Minimalism" to characterize a variety of concepts and methods that began to emerge in the late 1960s as a reaction against the prevailing, detached Minimalism. Pincus-Witten, who was 29 at the time, had close ties to the Leo Castelli art crowd. "I was a star-fucker, and I wanted to know Andy Warhol," he recalled. He approached Warhol at the Factory and they became lovers. used in various artistic fields for work which is influenced by, or attempts to develop and go beyond, the aesthetic of minimalism.

Pincus-Witten retired from City University of New York in 1990. He curated art shows for the Gagosian Gallery (East) in New York City, until 1996. That same year he joined the staff of C&M Arts (Mnuchin Fine Arts), New York City, as Director of Exhibitions from 1996 to 2007.

On July 3, 2013, Pincus-Witten and Leon Hecht were married in New York City.

Pincus-Witten died in Manhattan on January 28, 2018, after a long illness.

Books Postminimalism. New York: Out of London Press, 1977 Entries (Maximalism): Art at the Turn of the Decade. New York: Out of London Press, 1983 Eye to Eye: Twenty Years of Art Criticism. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1984. Postminimalism into Maximalism: American Art, 1966–1986. Ann Arbor, Michigan : UMI Research Press, 1987