Thought you would like it. Should have checked your page first.
We actually saw three short docs last night, the first on Vincent Scully, professor of History of Art in Architecture at Yale University. This mostly consisted of him walking around the Yale campus and talking about the buildings. Then the Gee's Bend one, and then a slightly longer one on Sol LeWitt which had a big focus on the huge wall drawings installation at Mass MoCA (up for the next 25 years!) Made me really want to take a trip up there. A cool mix of stuff that you wouldn't think would make sense together but totally did.
Paula Cooper had a funny bit in the LeWitt movie talking about the first time she showed one of his wall drawings. It was a very early soho show and the invite had to describe where it was so that people could find it (one block south of Houston and two blocks west of Broadway.) Then when the exhibition was over she called Sol up in a panic asking "what should I do with it?" He said, "oh, just paint over it" but she couldn't get her head around that idea.
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We actually saw three short docs last night, the first on Vincent Scully, professor of History of Art in Architecture at Yale University. This mostly consisted of him walking around the Yale campus and talking about the buildings. Then the Gee's Bend one, and then a slightly longer one on Sol LeWitt which had a big focus on the huge wall drawings installation at Mass MoCA (up for the next 25 years!) Made me really want to take a trip up there. A cool mix of stuff that you wouldn't think would make sense together but totally did.
Paula Cooper had a funny bit in the LeWitt movie talking about the first time she showed one of his wall drawings. It was a very early soho show and the invite had to describe where it was so that people could find it (one block south of Houston and two blocks west of Broadway.) Then when the exhibition was over she called Sol up in a panic asking "what should I do with it?" He said, "oh, just paint over it" but she couldn't get her head around that idea.
- jim 5-21-2009 3:01 pm