NANY II: Norwegian Artists in New York Dec 2, 2007
An important resonance for this interest has been working as a wall drawing assistant for American artist Sol Lewitt since 1998. May Rolstad Trien grew up in Oslo, Norway, and has resided on the Upper West Side of Manhattan since 1966. (AbsoluteArts.com)
For Carl Andre, beauty is in the basics Nov 27, 2007
With artists such as the late Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd and Dan Flavin, he shaped the austere, tough-minded movement known as Minimalism. Partly a reaction to the emotional excess of Abstract Expressionism, it grew into an enormously influential aesthetic force that continues to reverberate. (Los Angeles Times)
'Las Vegas Diaspora' at the Vegas Art Museum Nov 20, 2007
Thomas Burke's 16-foot-long panel of undulating geometric color, "The Hots," crosses Sol LeWitt with a Navajo blanket, then turns on the neon. Jane Callister's "Cosmic Landslide" is a primordial ooze of sliding paint -- pigmented magma. (Los Angeles Times)
Bacon and Koons lead $315.9 million sale Nov 16, 2007
Then came "Corner Piece No. 2" by Sol LeWitt, who died earlier this year. This painted wood structure, which seemed to have been removed from a storage house, looked like some utilitarian contraption. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Top 10 ice-skating rinks around the U.S. Nov 8, 2007
Washington, D.C.: The rink is strung with festive lights and set amid the National Gallery of Art's outdoor sculpture collection, graced by the works of Joan Mir, Sol LeWitt, and Ellsworth Kelly. Nov. 17 to mid-Mar. (MSNBC -- Travel)
In his first year, Northeastern president Joseph Aoun gets mixed reviews Sep 30, 2007
The array of multicolored squares is a work of art by the late Sol LeWitt. MIT will dedicate the $49. (Boston Globe)
Martin Creed's art provokes debate Sep 21, 2007
A wall painting of criss-crossing red bands was like a Sol LeWitt wall painting. Words painted on the wall that said "The whole world + the work = the whole world" could have been mistaken for a piece by the word artist Lawrence Weiner. (Boston Globe)
Fidelity and Wisdom Sep 13, 2007
Whatever the theory, where insurance workers once toiled, today there is sculpture by Anselm Keifer ("Palette with Wings"), Sol LeWitt ("Splotch"), Dan Flavin ("Monument to V. Tatlin") and others. This exhibit, A Conversation in Three Dimensions: Sculpture from the Collections, is on view through May, 2008. (South Brunswick Post, NJ)
Clark enters lease deal with Mass MoCA Aug 30, 2007
The formal announcement of the long-term lease comes a year after Mass MoCA made another agreement, with the Yale University Art Gallery, to renovate 30,000 square feet on its campus to house works by Sol LeWitt. "We now operate 120,000 square feet of gallery space," Mass MoCA director Joseph C. Thompson said yesterday. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Akron Art Museum’s design has great eye appeal Aug 24, 2007
A compelling multi-colored mural by the late Sol LeWitt hangs on the connecting wall between the old and new sections. The dramatic steel and concrete stairway that leads to the gallery on the second level resembles a piece of modern sculpture. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Turbulent Infinity: Ferdinand Ahm Krag Aug 13, 2007
They may resemble works by Sol LeWitt or Agnes Martin, but only at first glance. For Ahm Krag clearly draws upon numerous sources such as constructivism, futurism, psychedelic art, op-art, science-fiction, textile design and computer-generated visualisations of sound. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Biennale reflected on empires old and new Jun 18, 2007
"Scribble drawings," by Sol Lewitt. (Italian Pavilion). (Toronto Star)
Microsoft's art collection grows up Jun 12, 2007
Microsoft HQ home to 4,500 pieces of contemporary art Microsoft's art collection began in 1987 Collection includes a two-story wall drawing by Sol LeWitt Curator wants to raise Microsoft's profile in the art world Adjust font size ... One highlight of his tenure was the commission of a two-story wall drawing by Sol LeWitt, whose works have been shown in the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York ... A two-story wall painting by Sol LeWitt on the Microsoft campus. (CNN -- Tech)
Pax Americana in the Serene Republic Jun 11, 2007
There are rooms devoted to Biennale familiars Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, Jenny Holzer, Louise Bourgeois, and Sol LeWitt, as well as newer introductions for an international audience such as Elizabeth Murray, Thomas Nozkowski, and Raymond Pettibon. Mr. Nozkowski's thoughtful, quirkily compact little abstractions loosely intimating specific sources and improvising playfully upon art historical precedents epitomize Mr. Storr's thesis of art at the nexus of the sensual and the cerebral. (New York Sun)
Microsoft's art collection has some hang-ups Jun 9, 2007
One highlight of his tenure was the commission of a two-story wall drawing by Sol LeWitt, whose works have been shown in the in New York. When asked why Microsoft collects art, Klein answered, "Because they can. And they should. They are involved in culture. Technology is culture. And the art informs the culture.". (USA Today)
Colby is given art worth $100m May 19, 2007
The 500 works in the collection include paintings, sculptures, and prints by John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Winslow Homer, Sol LeWitt, Jenny Holzer, and Alex Katz. The collection also includes 201 etchings and lithographs by James McNeill Whistler. (Boston Globe)
Vivid paintings draw on Columbine's darkness May 11, 2007
"Bachelor's Bounty" features works by Stuart Davis, Sol LeWitt, and Clyfford Still. An Andy Warhol hangs at the top of a staircase glimpsed through the floor-to-ceiling windows of a three-story apartment in "Urban Sleek" ; we're viewing life refracted through the modernist grid. (Boston Globe)
Joseph Cornell retrospective stresses the tensions between capture and release Apr 29, 2007
And a box in which each little compartment of a white gridded structure is occupied by a white wooden cube anticipates the gridded sculptures of Sol LeWitt and other minimalist artists of the '60s. Cornell's raw materials are fascinating to study. (Boston Globe)
Sydney has cause to reflect on LeWitt Apr 25, 2007
The death in New York of Sol LeWitt may not figure hugely on many Australian radars. But with our public values more than usually stretched, this very disconnect should prod us awake. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Kurt Vonnegut, R.I.P.: Apr 17, 2007
Sol LeWitt, R.I.P. The pioneering contemporary artist died Sunday at age 78 at his home in Connecticut. Many of LeWitt's most famous works were installation pieces, painted directly onto gallery wallsand had to be destroyed when the shows were over. (Slate)
Sol LeWitt, a Modern Master, Left a Vibrant Mark on the County Apr 13, 2007
"'You have to see the new Sol LeWitt exhibition. It's phenomenal. There are 30 new works in this show,'" Tony Carretta, who owns the New Arts Gallery, has recalled a visitor to Litchfield County as saying. The exhortation, he continued, was met with, "Where is it, at the Met or MOMA? The reply was 'No, it's ten minutes from here, across from the Bunnell's Farm at New Arts Gallery.'" "His whole philosophy was, the concept was more important than the actual thing," said Mr. Carretta, who noted... (Litchfield County Times, CT)
APPRECIATION Apr 13, 2007
I'm afraid I'm a dead end. " LeWitt's name registers with the Bay Area public because in 2000 the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art staged a retrospective of his work that traveled later to New York and Chicago. Bright remnants of that event still adorn the walls that overlook the museum's lobby atrium: "Wall Drawing #935: Color bands in four directions" and "Wall Drawing #936: Color arcs in four directions. (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Living the eternal idea Apr 12, 2007
A major figure in the development of the conceptual movement, Sol LeWitt lived his life through art ... Sol LeWitt, whose deceptively simple geometric sculptures and drawings, and ecstatically colored and jazzy wall paintings, established him as a lodestar of modern American art, died Sunday ... Sol LeWitt, whose deceptively simple geometric sculptures and drawings and ecstatically colored and jazzy wall paintings established him as a lodestar of modern American art, died Sunday in New York. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Master of the minimal dies Apr 10, 2007
SOL LEWITT, whose deceptively simple geometric sculptures and drawings and ecstatically coloured and jazzy wall paintings established him as a lodestar of modern American art, died in New York on Sunday, from cancer. He was 78. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Sol LeWitt, 78; expanded perception of art through concepts, geometry Apr 10, 2007
Sol LeWitt, a founder of the Conceptualist and Minimalist movements in American art and one of the most influential artists of the past half-century, died of complications from cancer in New York on Sunday. The artist, a resident of Chester, Conn. (Boston Globe)
NBMAA to rework late artist's mural Apr 10, 2007
Patrons of the New Britain Museum of American Art recall that LeWitt conceived the 25-by-15-foot wall drawing in the museum's entranceway. It is the first object visitors see when they enter the new building. (New Britain Herald, CT)
Influential artist put priority on concepts Apr 10, 2007
SOL LEWITT, 1928-2007 ... For Sol LeWitt, the idea was the thing. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Critics split over decision to pull Jays' pillow fight ad Apr 10, 2007
Critics split over decision to pull Jays' pillow fight ad. Critics split over decision to pull Jays' pillow fight ad. (CBC News)
Sol LeWitt, 78 Apr 10, 2007
Sol LeWitt, a humble artist known for dynamic wall paintings and a founder of minimal and conceptual art styles, died Sunday in New York, published reports say ... Splotch #3, one of five sculptures and a wall drawing by American artist Sol LeWitt, is seen against the Manhattan skyline from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in this 2005 file photo. (Globe and Mail)
Sol LeWitt, 78, sculptor and muralist Apr 10, 2007
By Christopher Knight, Times Staff Writer April 10, 2007 Sol LeWitt, an American artist whose modular sculptures and systematic murals rank among the most innovative works of the last 40 years, changing the direction of art internationally, died Sunday in New York City after a lengthy struggle with cancer ... That arrangement led to plans for a long-term exhibition, "Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective," which will feature 50 monumental works created between 1968 and 2007 and will be shown... (Los Angeles Times)
Honoring LeWitt Apr 10, 2007
He was near the entrance to the New Britain Museum of American Art, working to realize the vision of Sol LeWitt. For Good, the labor offered him a chance to celebrate LeWitt's life rather than mourn his death. (CTNow.com)
1st Kuwaiti woman MP sworn in Apr 10, 2007
American visual artist Sol LeWitt, known for creating vibrant coloured conceptual and minimalist artworks based around geometric shapes and basic lines, has died at the age of 78. Apple Inc. says it has sold 100 million units of its iPod, with the Cupertino, Calif. (Yahoo News -- Kuwait)
Sol LeWitt, master of Conceptualism, dies at 78 Apr 9, 2007
Sol LeWitt, whose deceptively simple geometric sculptures and drawings and ecstatically colored and jazzy wall paintings established him as a lodestar of modern American art, died Sunday in New York. He was 78 and lived mostly in Chester, Connecticut. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Carnegie art Mar 21, 2007
Carnegie putting a fresh coat on Sol LeWitt's wall drawings, just as artist intended ... Carnegie putting a fresh coat on Sol LeWitt's wall drawings, just as artist intended ... Two 1980s Sol LeWitt wall drawings at the Carnegie Museum of Art were painted over recently, using regular old Benjamin Moore primer. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Speaking volumes about their work Mar 19, 2007
Many famous names are included among the 150 artists represented: Max Ernst , Marcel Duchamp , Marcel Broodthaers , Andy Warhol , Sol LeWitt , Sigmar Polke , and Richard Prince , to name just a few. Collectively, the works in "Transgression/Excess" produce an enthralling pandemonium of forms and contents. (Boston Globe)
Art exhibits Mar 16, 2007
Sol LeWitt -- Through June 17 at Oberlin College's Allen Memorial Art Museum, 87 N. Main St., Oberlin. Also Illuminated Manuscripts from the 13th through 16th Centuries through June 2; and Philip Trager, A Retrospective through June 10. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
All the prints that are fit for views Mar 2, 2007
I saw only an inkling of a preview of "New England Impressions," which celebrates the collaborative nature of printmaking, highlighting prints artists such as Sol LeWitt , Neil Welliver, and Michael Mazur have made with the indispensable help of master printmakers such as Robert Townsend and Peter Pettengill. The show notes with pride the wealth of master printers right here in New England, and hints at the riches that arise when an artist of large and true vision partners with a superb... (Boston Globe)
The A-Z of alternative breaks Feb 17, 2007
But it's also a smart modern city with cutting-edge contemporary museums including Castello di Rivoli (Piazza Mafalda di Savoia, 956 5222, ) with works by Richard Long, Joseph Beuys and Sol LeWitt, and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Via Modane 16, 379 7600, ) which celebrates the avant-garde movement. Turin also spawned a string of famously fast cars - visit the Museo dell Automobile (677 666, ) to gawp at Ferraris and Maseratis from years gone by. (Guardian Unlimited -- Travel)
Whiff of the new as modern art museum expands in San Diego Jan 25, 2007
The main museum will continue to showcase special exhibits and displays from the permanent collection, which includes pieces by Ellsworth Kelly and Sol LeWitt. Visitors under 25 will get into all three facilities for free, Castle said. (North County Times)
Admiring art while waiting for the next train Jan 25, 2007
Today she promotes the transit system as a public art institution in its own right, with a roster that includes Vito Acconci, Romare Bearden, Eric Fischl, Robert Kushner, Jacob Lawrence, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Maya Lin, Mary Miss, Elizabeth Murray, Dennis Oppenheim, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar and Robert Wilson. "I now feel this is worthy of being the destination," Bloodworth said one morning in December. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Quietly Puzzling Jan 18, 2007
REVIEW / An artist who finds comfort (and discomfort) in his own shoes. OK, OK, OK" (1990), as if he wanted to expose the sinew of effort itself, the better to know its value. Even the early pieces, watched through, induce in the viewer a corrosive skepticism toward the most routine acts of will. "A Rose Has No Teeth," the brainchild of Constance Lewallen at BAM, contains a few discoveries, such as the very brief, oddly disorienting film, "Uncovering a Sculpture" (1965). It also revisits much of... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Financial New Year's resolutions Dec 30, 2006
As for Andy Warhol, "his name is like Picasso," said Guesnet, who also anticipated further increases for the work of another modern painter, Sol Lewitt. Sharon Reier. (International Herald Tribune -- Money Report)
An overlooked sculptor's work weaves its way into our times Nov 19, 2006
But the systematic and process-oriented approach to sculpture that Asawa took might have put her close to the leading edge of a '60s shift in sensibility exemplified by artists such as Agnes Martin (1912-2004) and Sol LeWitt. Several of Asawa's early color and design exercises, made under the tutelage of Josef Albers (1888-1976) at Black Mountain College, bring to mind some of LeWitt's recent color wall drawings. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Hong Kong billionaire pays record for Warhol Chairman Mao painting Nov 17, 2006
The sale of post-war and contemporary art also included works by Willem de Kooning, Clyfford Still, Sam Francis and Sol Lewitt. Christie's said the sale total had topped 239 million US dollars, breaking through the 200 million barrier mark for a sale of post war and contemporary for the first time. (Monsters and Critics.com)
Art worth millions? An economist offers a theory on creativity and relative value Nov 16, 2006
He was thinking about buying an old painting by an American artist named Sol LeWitt and asked the dealer what she thought of the price. She told him the work was overpriced, because recent LeWitt works were selling for less. (International Herald Tribune)
The draw of these abstracts? Changing plot lines Nov 9, 2006
He calls them "visual algorithms," and sets out detailed instructions for each one before he starts painting it, like Sol Lewitt. His work is hand-painted, without ruler or compass, and has a certain ragged, imperfect grace. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Yale, Mass MoCA join to create new home for LeWitt's epic work Oct 27, 2006
Defying the laws of geography, Sol LeWitt has brought together North Adams and New Haven. Mass MoCA and the Yale University Art Gallery announced yesterday a major project involving LeWitt, one of America's foremost artists and a founding father of Minimal and Conceptual art. (Boston Globe)
From a Minimalist approach, maximum impact Oct 14, 2006
Organized by Allison Kemmerer , the Addison's curator of photography and art after 1950, ``Early Plate Works" examines an eight-year period that began in 1968 when, as a young artist in New York, Bartlett started painting exclusively on 1-foot-square steel plates with white, baked enamel surfaces overlaid by silk-screened grids of fine gray lines. (The plates are like thick, rigid sheets of graph paper.) For paint she restricted herself to the 25 colors of Testors enamels -- a material normally... (Boston Globe -- Living)
Art Review: 2006 California Biennial PHOTOS Oct 7, 2006
He replaced it with a modular cubic sculpture by Sol LeWitt, also from the 1960s. "Kalifornia ?ber Alles" turns Hitchcock's Atomic Age Cold War scenario away from a pop-narrative of nature's revenge, released in the year of the Kennedy assassination. (Los Angeles Times)
UCSB Names New Director of University Art Museum UCSB, Jul. 25 Jul 26, 2006
g., Jean Arp, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, Richard Diebenkorn, David Hockney, Arnulf Rainer, John Coplans, Minor White, Chuck Close, and Terry Winters). We have acquired the Trevey Collection of 128 early 20th-century American Realist prints (e. (University of California Newswire, CA)
In a world where the primeval past and gritty modernity live side by side, Indian artists attempt to illuminate both Jul 6, 2006
A conceptual sculpture that entwines references to the global reach of American commerce, the conventions of women's work and adornment, it also prizes system in a manner typical of artists such as Sol LeWitt and Hanne Darboven. K.G. Subramanyan, at 82 a senior figure in "Edge of Desire," presents paintings with folk-art-like compressed, ambiguous narrative and a drawing style that suggests a keen admiration for American painter R.B. Kitaj. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Presidio's future -- less cash, more culture Jun 19, 2006
" It's not easy to say what "getting it right" will mean, or what opportunities lie ahead. But the only way to find out is for the Trust to aim for something great. Don't just settle for the best deal at hand. The Presidio: taking stock Twelve years after the national park was created, and 10 years after the Presidio Trust came on the scene, how has the Presidio fared? Here are examples of the good, the bad - and the ugly. Top secrets 1 Mountain Lake: This 3-acre patch of water was in danger of... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
'Getting It Right'? Jun 19, 2006
Presidio's future -- less cash, more culture / Market-driven development needs a dose of soul-searching. " But when Congress balked at the cost, the 1,168 inland acres were transferred two years later from the National Park Service to the Presidio Trust, an appointed board with marching orders to make the Presidio financially self-sufficient by 2013. On many fronts the Trust is doing well. Forests are being replanted, and trails are being cleared. In the Main Post, a long-buried creek runs free... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Exploring the many meanings of hadith Feb 7, 2006
"Rainbow," as the exhibition was called, succeeded best in its ability to stretch definitions of paintings so wide as to include wall works by Sol LeWitt, digital images by Setareh Shahbazi and animations by Laleh Khorramian and Shahzia Sikander. So for her third outing, Sfeir-Semler decided not to impose a structure first and find the works second but rather to let an idea percolate up and form from the works themselves. (The Daily Star, Lebanon)
The year in review, as seen through the visual arts Jan 7, 2006
The gallery's second exhibition, "Rainbow," presented strong works by Sol LeWitt, Robert Barry, Shahzia Sikander, Laleh Khorramian, Nabil Nahas, Setareh Shahbazi, Mona Marzouk and more. Slated to mount just four exhibitions a year, Sfeir-Semler is currently lining up a third show, set to open January 26, called "Hadith: Conversation," introducing works by William Kentridge, Sophie Calle, Mona Hatoum, Philip Lorca diCorcia, Rabih Mroue and Moataz Nasr, among others. (The Daily Star, Lebanon)
