Word: lewitt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very vivacious, we liked him a greatdeal--he had a lot of wit about him," said Lewitt."The fact that he could combine playfulness withhis work at the lab made him a valuable part ofthe team...
This year, Kaplan worked in the LafayetteLaboratory, where he helped a team researchingTourette's Syndrome. Kaplan was interested in thedisorder because a family member had suffered fromit, said lab Director Dr. Peter Lewitt...
Raised in Glen Ellyn, Ill., a Chicago suburb, Anderson first studied the violin but decided to major in art history at Barnard College in New York City. Influenced by minimalists like Sol LeWitt, she tried her hand at sculpture. In the '70s, Manhattan galleries also featured musicians like Minimalist Composer Philip Glass, and Anderson gradually drifted into performance art. In one early conceptualist effort, she stood playing the violin while wearing ice skates implanted in a block of ice; when the ice melted, the piece was over...
...minimal music is often tightly organized, its objective is to create a mood in the listener, not to have him follow a complicated puzzle. Minimal music (the term is borrowed from the less-is-more visual-arts movement of the '60s, led by such artists as Sculptors Sol LeWitt and Donald Judd) invites the audience to revel in hypnotic sounds and take delight when one prolonged, incessantly repeated passage suddenly gives way to another. It is a kind of musical kaleidoscope whose each new turn can reveal sudden, unexpected beauties...
...Nature's sailing." To spend time along the wall in the Philadelphia Museum where Eakins' major paintings and drawings of rowers and shells are hung is, eventually, to see what he meant. The perspective setups have the gratuitous complexity of Uccello and the modernity of Sol LeWitt; their geometrical, measured web of lines turns, slowly and inevitably, into the observed structure of water surfaces, the arrowing interpenetrations of ripples, the striations, and the delicate punctuation of water droplets in light. "There is so much beauty in reflections," Eakins wrote, "that it is generally well worth while...