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Last year, an army of about 65 artists, including 11 students from Yale, set up camp for nearly six months in Building No. 7 on the campus of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMoCA) in North Adams. Their mission: execute a kind of last will and testament left by pioneering artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007). A master of minimalism and conceptual art, LeWitt had since the 1960s conceived hundreds of wall drawings by providing a diagram and instructions. The actual drawing and painting were left to others. (Shown here are WD 413, left; WD 681C, center; and WD 414, right.) "All of the planning and decisions are made beforehand, and execution is a perfunctory affair," LeWitt wrote in a 1967 Artforum article explaining his approach. "The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.” LeWitt left Yale his entire archive of wall-drawing plans.
The University Art Gallery in turn began a collaboration with the artist and
MassMoCA to design and develop a three-story, 27,000-square-foot exhibit space
to house 105 of the works. Plan your visit now: they’ll be on display only
until 2033. |
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