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...March 19, 2000: "Twenty-five Years of Greater Boston Art: The Lois Foster Exhibition of Boston Area Artists," "Stephen Antonakos: Time Boxes 2000, with Richard Artschwager, Daniel Buren, Sol LeWitt and Robert Ryman...
...Guggenheim's Krens. There is a whole gallery of messages from Jenny Holzer; a fatuous "work" by Laurence Weiner in the form of the word reduced written in huge block letters on the wall of its main gallery; another gallery devoted to a single drawing by Sol Lewitt; some huge and utterly banal sculpture by Jim Dine; and so on. And, of course, that one-shot icon of the conformity of late-Modernist official taste, Jeff Koons' Puppy, 1992, sitting outside the museum...
Robert Mapplethorpe's boys-in-bondage photographs made the right wing snort and paw the ground. But the left has its own kind of puritanism lately, which submits depictions of the human body to a test of political correctness. A 1964 work by Sol LeWitt failed the test of Elizabeth Broun, director of the Smithsonian's NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART in Washington. LeWitt's piece -- part of a touring show of work inspired by the 19th century photographer Eadweard Muybridge -- is a long black box with 10 portholes. A viewer passing from one to the next sees successive shots...
...very vivacious, we liked him a greatdeal--he had a lot of wit about him," said Lewitt."The fact that he could combine playfulness withhis work at the lab made him a valuable part ofthe team...
This year, Kaplan worked in the LafayetteLaboratory, where he helped a team researchingTourette's Syndrome. Kaplan was interested in thedisorder because a family member had suffered fromit, said lab Director Dr. Peter Lewitt...