No minimum stay required to rest your eyes on these hotels’ fine art Nov 8, 2009
These include examples of conceptual, minimal, and pop art by such artists as Andy Warhol, Sol LeWitt, Buckminster Fuller, Stella, Jan Dibbets, Jonathan Borofsky, and Stephen Mueller. Art fills nearly every space on the first two floors. (Boston Globe)
Rose Art Museum display justifies the passions Nov 5, 2009
The displays of color field painting and minimalist art (Morris Louis, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, etc. are also brilliant. (Boston Globe)
MMK: Einladung zur Veranstaltung Nov 3, 2009
In der Ausstellungsreihe Double: Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing # 261, 1975 bis 15. November 2009. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Gilpin exhibit at Gallery NAGA a wood lover’s paradise Oct 21, 2009
LeWitt s forms in space If you ve seen the ambitious and stunning Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective that opened last year at Mass MoCA, you have taken in the sheer scope of LeWitt s output on walls ... Sol LeWitt: Locations features three wall drawings (dated 2005) and several prints (from the mid 1970s) ... SOL LEWITT: Locations At: Barbara Krakow Gallery. (Boston Globe)
Week Ahead listings: Arts Sep 10, 2009
GALLERIES SOL LEWITT: LOCATIONS An exhibition of works from LeWitt s Locations series of the mid-1970s, in which he deploys text, lines, and geometric forms to explore what it means to create structure. Through Nov. 10. (Boston Globe)
At MIT, art collection is more than numbers Sep 4, 2009
Sol LeWitt s Bars of Color Within Squares at MIT s Green Center for Physics ... With the help of a freely available map provided by the school, you can find yourself walking all over a stunning, brightly colored floor piece by Sol LeWitt, taking in outdoor sculptures by Alexander Calder, Mark di Suvero, Jacques Lipchitz, Louise Nevelson, and Henry Moore and sniffing out installations by such international stars as Frank Stella, Dan Graham, Matthew Ritchie, and Lawrence Weiner. (Boston Globe)
'Wallworks' serves YBCA by keeping it empty Aug 4, 2009
But "Wallworks" looks back no further than Sol LeWitt (1928-2007). Granted, from the late '60s on, LeWitt's wall drawings, which evolved into something more like painted abstract murals, reawakened the attention of contemporary artists to architecture as a site-specific support for their work. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Bang on a Can finale plays minimalism to the max Jul 27, 2009
Earlier in the day, on the same stage, he and Bang on a Can cofounder (and fellow Pulitzer Prize-winner) David Lang discussed the late Sol LeWitt, who was a friend and peer of Reich s. The artist s astonishingly vibrant wall paintings, on display at MassMoCA, are a visual correlative to what the composer is about: patterns and processes built upon each other until the mystic is achieved. Following the discussion, several Reich pieces were played in a large gallery next to the LeWitt exhibition. (Boston Globe)
Classical music picks this weekend Jul 24, 2009
Reich will be on hand for a 3 p.m. talk about Sol LeWitt, and at 8 p.m., Bang on a Can performs an all-Reich program including his landmark Music for 18 Musicians as well as Eight Lines and Video Phase. $24, Mass MoCA, North Adams, 413-662-2111 or. (Boston Globe)
'Herb & Dorothy' looks at longtime art collectors Jul 10, 2009
In the mid-1960s and 1970s, minimalism and conceptualism were largely unheralded, and the Vogels liked the cerebral work of Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Joseph Kosuth, and Sol Lewitt. Close says that what s remarkable about Herb and Dorothy is how they loved the most difficult, unlovable pieces. (Boston Globe)
10 things to do this weekend Jul 3, 2009
They donated their collection, including works by Sol LeWitt and Chuck Close, to the National Gallery of Art. July 3, 6 p.m.; July 5. (Crain's Chicago Business)
The thighs of it: risque mural curtained off Jun 29, 2009
The artist Cash Brown was commissioned two months ago by the Armory to recreate her wall-sized mural work F--- LeWitt - a reference to the American installation artist Sol LeWitt- for an exhibition of 20 works by former artists-in-residence at the Armory, which opened on Saturday. The work took two days to finish but it wasn't until last week that Brown was told that the Sydney Olympic Park Authority would curtain the mural and it would not be included in the catalogue, a decision that has... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
A building for the future Jun 19, 2009
" The architectural plan is that of Rafael Vinoly Architects, a firm brought on by the museum in 2001. The CMA's Strean said six architects expressed interest in the mammoth project. "Four came with proposals, but Vinoly came with a model and a plan," he said. Strean only hinted at the difficulty of winning over the staff of a major metropolitan art museum to such a plan on such a grand scale. "Let's just say he's an incredible presenter," he said. One of the largest and most prestigious art... (Erie Times-News, PA)
St. Joseph College prof named poet laureate Jun 19, 2009
"The essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, (the art of) Sol Lewitt, mean more to me than the poetry of X, Y or Z," he said. Barone has also written novels, but he says, "I think of my fiction as being very poetic, probably too poetic for readers of fiction." He says he's already introduced himself to staff at the Noah Webster Library and scoped out a room there for readings. (Farmington Valley Post, CT)
Mass MoCA has turned a hard corner toward financial stability May 31, 2009
In that time, more than a million people have passed through the brick-walled galleries to gaze at exhibits that, in many cases, could not have been seen anyplace else - from Chinese artist Cai Guo Qiang's series of nine cars suspended from the ceiling, rods of pulsating light exploding from them, to Sol LeWitt's colorful, detailed wall drawings, spread over three floors in an unprecedented 25-year exhib it ... Audio Slideshow Sol LeWitt retrospective ... Video Sol LeWitt timelapse #1. (Boston Globe)
Wall-to-wall, all around the city Feb 22, 2009
Pop over to the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, part of the Harvard Art Museum in Cambridge, to see the Sol LeWitt wall drawing that animates the Sackler's soaring lobby. By his arrangement of colorful trapezoids, LeWitt brought the equivalent of stained glass into the cathedral of art. (Boston Globe)
