Minimal sculpture, such as Untitled by John McCracken, is somewhat controversial. Is this work boring? If you were trying to convince a friend that itwas interesting, how would you go about it? What would you say?

only explain the good qualities and ignore the boring and the weak points and focus on the interesting and the strong points

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