Word: solness
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Leave it to glitzy Dubai to throw one of the most extravagant parties in living memory amid the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression. And leave it to Sol Kerzner, hotelier extraordinaire, "the best saloonkeeper in the world," as his friend Frank Sinatra once dubbed him, to organize the bash...
...Sol LeWitt was the man who made conceptual art an appealing concept. For almost four decades, LeWitt, who died last year at 78, made immense abstract wall drawings that he conceived but almost never executed himself. His method was to devise a set of instructions - for instance, draw 10,000 ten-inch lines, covering the wall evenly - that could be carried out by assistants or, for that matter, by anyone. Often he never even saw the finished work, much less touched...
...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 is something you don't want to miss. (Read Richard Lacayo's art blog...
...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...
Graphic Fantastic. A retrospective of conceptual artist Sol LeWitt opens this week at Mass MoCA in North Adams, Mass. Featuring 100 works created over the last 40 years, the artist himself collaborated on the exhibit before his death in 2007. It opens Nov. 16, and will stay up for 25 years. 1040 Mass MoCA Way, North Adams...