Speaking of Sol LeWitt…

MASS MoCA, North Adams, Mass., is about to announce its plan to transform a three-story, 27,000-square-foot building on its campus into a “quasi-permanent living archive” for 50 of Sol LeWitt‘s intricately engrossing but far too ephemeral wall drawings. The galleries, designed by the artist himself, are to open in Fall 2008.
The $9-million cost ($6 million raised to date) will also fund a three-volume LeWitt catalogue raisonné and an endowment to support the installation for 25 years. The project will increase MASS MoCA’s gallery space by 30 percent.
Organized in partnership with the Yale University Art Gallery, this is the first realization of director Joseph Thompson‘s longstanding dream to complement MASS MoCA’s temporary exhibitions with a “core collection” of works and projects too large to be permanently displayed in conventional facilities.
The man has vision, lots of raw space in empty factory buildings, and the persistence and patience needed to carry out unconventional ideas.