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...inch lines, and you end up with a dynamic pattern of vector formations. A great LeWitt wall drawing may start like an algebra lesson, but it ends like a Renaissance fresco. Now you can see 105 of his drawings unfold themselves gorgeously across three floors of Mass MoCA, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, in North Adams, Mass. In a very unusual arrangement, "Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective" will remain on view there for at least 25 years. In effect, it's a quasi-permanent LeWitt museum. You should hurry to North Adams anyway. Life is brief, and this...
...LeWitt retrospective grew out of conversations that began five years ago between the artist and Jock Reynolds, director of the Yale University Art Gallery. Thinking over ways to preserve LeWitt's work, Reynolds suggested a long-term installation of his wall drawings at Mass MoCA, which had opened in 1996 in a complex of almost two dozen derelict industrial buildings, most of them still unused by the museum. "I think Jock described me to Sol as a poor dirt farmer of a museum director," says mass moca director Joe Thompson. "Cash poor but rich in buildings and land...
...LeWitt visited Mass MoCA, where he settled on Building Seven. Though he never returned to the site, he designed the installation himself, working with a scale model at his studio in Grafton, Conn. Mass MoCA engaged the architecture firm Bruner/Cott & Associates to produce a clean-lined renovation. Then the drawings were painstakingly executed over a six-month period by a combination of veteran LeWitt studio assistants, college students and local artists, about 70 people in all. The entire project, which also involves the nearby Williams College Museum of Art, cost $7.3 million...
...extensive hearings and appeals required by union contracts and state-labor laws in firing a tenured teacher. (Costs can run as high as $100,000). Other districts simply transfer inadequate teachers to other schools in what Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has called "the dance of the lemons." Former Mass. Gov. William Weld tried to pass legislation requiring teachers to take competency tests every five years, a move that triggered a number of complaints from local teachers' unions who called the bill adversarial and intrusive. Weld defended himself by explaining his stance as "anti-slob teacher," not "anti-teacher...
Held in the Science Center and Sever Hall, the mass-training was the first of its kind at Harvard...