Alexandra Lange
Architecture & design critic
May 29, 2014

Live Tweeting LeWitt


I paid my second visit to the Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawing Retrospective at Mass MoCA on Wednesday. Both times it has been a meditative experience to walk the three floors of his work, journeying from color to black-and-white, graphite to marker, two dimensions to three. The light, the space, the layering of works on parallel and perpendicular walls within the space: all the elements combine to make LeWitt’s “recipes” stronger.


Oddly, this was my fourth LeWitt experience of the week, including the Yale University Art Gallery, Dia:Beacon, and LeWitt + Charles Moore at the Williams Museum of Art. Yale’s several black-and-white LeWitts similarly gain strength from architectural juxtaposition. There’s one in the lobby, its grid contrasting with Louis Kahn’s triangular concrete grid ceiling, and one in the new/old wing, orthogonal against a set of neo-classical arches. As I wandered, I began to tweet.




The rest of the museum had several new and beautiful exhibits too.


The town of North Adams itself is not without art interventions. This bus shelter, a 2012 installation by Victoria Palermo, seems inspired by LeWitt.


At the end of the day, the common ground between Fernandez, Remec and LeWitt was clouds.