Massachusetts—A contemporary art paradox: A retrospective of a Minimalist artist (who died last year) features works “borrowed” from public and private collections, which will also remain on view at their original sites. These loans will last for 25 years. How can this be? Well, we’re talking about Sol LeWitt. For MassMoCA’s “Wall Drawing Retrospective,” the conceptually-based murals, undetachable from their homes, were recreated by a veritable army of workers—24 longtime LeWitt assistants and 30 Yale students, for a start. For all their dryness (“21 isometric cubes of varying sizes, each with color ink washes super-imposed”), the drawings are elegantly—even lushly—beautiful. Go see. You have time.

 

SOL LEWITT: A WALL DRAWING RETROSPECTIVE: MassMoCA, North Adams; opens November 16; massmoca.org.

"Here, There, Everywhere" originally appeared in the Fall 2008 issue of Culture+Travel. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Culture+Travel's Fall 2008 Table of Contents.