Yet one of art’s most compelling features is how it showcases the disjuncts between the time of composition, the time of dissemination, and the time of consideration—disjuncts that can summon us to humility and wonder. Such temporal amplitude understandably falls out of favor in politically polarized times, in which the pressure to make clear “whic

Strange as it sounds to call a flat, monochromatic painting a “time-based medium,” there was actually something to find out in each one—or rather, between me and each one—and the longer time I spent, the more I found out.