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Earlier this month, the Barbara Krakow Gallery on 10 Newbury Street exhibited a new and seemingly random assortment of art, including works by Josef Albers, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Brice Marden, Allan McCollum, Fred Sandback, and Bill Wheelock. Barbara Krakow includes international and local artists in her exhibitions. This is not necessarily because she is an egalitarian. She also uses her aesthetic judgment in choosing what artwork she will show...
There is writing in “Lines from the sides, corners and center of the page to specific points” (1975) by Sol LeWitt, which cannot be seen until given close inspection. This work and the works sharing its wall space show white lines converging into a central point. This work also seems atypical of his personality. The works lack the rich color he has employed in the past, as well as paying more attention to line and less to special geometrical patterns shown in his other, more famous, works...
...Peter Katel. With reporting by Sol Biderman/Sao Paulo...
...focuses this painful contradiction. KidsArt, a collection of 60 or so simple sketch pieces, will eventually take the form of a coloring book for elementary school children. Its list of contributing artists, though, reads like a veritable who's who of the contemporary American art scene, including names like Sol Lewit, Jill Anderson, Carl Andre and Lawrence Weiner. The purport of the project, sponsored by Pilot Programs 217, Brooklyn, artkrush.com, and Clifford Smith, is to "introduce young to ideas and images in contemporary art." This, though, only begs the question: Can art, especially contemporary art, whose bent is highly intellectual...
DIED. ISAAC STERN, 81, classical violinist who played everything from Bartok to Bach in his own impassioned style; of heart failure; in New York City. He practiced obsessively. "I have begged him not to play so much," manager Sol Hurok told the New York Times in 1959. "I tell him, 'The less you play, the longer you will play.' It does no good." Stern was a generous teacher who mentored and encouraged cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman and pianist Emanuel Ax (see Eulogy, below...