Minimalism was immediately dubbed a critic-driven form of Dada

Evidence

Less enthralled, Harold Rosenberg wrote in the New Yorker that “Minimal Art is Dada in which the art critic has got into the act.” The year would bring an altogether more militant form of Dada. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1973

Categorization

• CANDY: A snappy one-liner about Minimalism being ‘Dada in which the art critic has got into the act’ — fun to drop in conversation about movements being critic-manufactured.