“Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective,” a 100-work installation that represents the Conceptual artist’s oeuvre from 1968 until his death, in 2007, begins its 25-year run at Mass MoCA, in North Adams, Massachusetts, on November 16. Housed in a 27,000-square-foot, three-story building on the museum’s campus, the exhibition is a joint effort among the Williams College Museum of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery and LeWitt himself. It came about when, in 2004, the artist promised to add to Yale’s existing collection of his work. Yale partnered with Mass MoCA , which could offer a more spacious venue for the drawings and redesigned the chosen building to LeWitt’s specifications. For the past six months, 24 of the artist’s seasoned assistants and 30 students from local schools have worked together to mount the installation, which includes the 1980 geometric white crayon- on-black drawing #335, from London’s Tate Museum, and the 2001 black acrylic swirled piece #999, from the San Francisco collector Thomas Weisel. Yale plans to release LeWitt’s three-volume catalogue raisonné by 2010.

"Meeting Ground" originally appeared in the November 2008 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's November 2008 Table of Contents.