Pincus-Witten joined the Queens College, City University of New York in 1964. In 1970 he was promoted to professor at Queens College. Pincus-Witten retired from CUNY in 1990.
In 1966 he began writing criticism for Artforum magazine as its senior editor. He became associate editor of Artforum in 1976.
An initial book on minimalism and the era following it was issued in 1977. His collected art criticism was published as Eye to Eye: Twenty Years of Art Criticism, in 1984. His treatise on postmodern art, Postminimalism into Maximalism: American Art 1966-1986, appeared in 1987. Postminimalism is an art term coined (as "post-minimalism") by Pincus-Witten in 1971[4] used in various artistic fields for work which is influenced by, or attempts to develop and go beyond, the aesthetic of minimalism.[5]
Pincus-Witten 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 and then retired after eleven years.
On July 3, 2013, Pincus-Witten and Leon Hecht were married in New York City.
Bibliography
Postminimalism. New York: Out of London Press, 1977
Entries (Maximalism): Art at the Turn of the Decade
New York: Out of London Press, 1983; and Armstrong, Richard, and Hanhardt, John G.
The New Sculpture 1965–75: between Geometry and Gesture. 1976
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1990
Postminimalism into Maximalism: American Art, 1966–1986. Ann Arbor, Michigan : UMI Research Press, 1987
Eye to Eye: Twenty Years of Art Criticism, Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1984.
^Chilvers, Ian and Glaves-Smith, John, A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, second edition (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), page 569. ISBN0199239665.
^Kristine Stiles & Peter Selz, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (Second Edition, Revised and Expanded by Kristine Stiles) University of California Press 2012, page 687
