At 72, Sol LeWitt's name is still right up there in the art headlines at the beginning of a new century, though after 40 years, this exposure only demonstrates his capacity to evolve, attain successive kinds of synthesis, and yet never to repeat himself. LeWitt's impetus cannot be separated from the direction that art thinking has taken since. On watching the physical forms set in motion play out. Which is why it can be carried away with the viewer or reconstructed in another place, even take on new form in that new place, which is why it cannot precisely be bought. Why its life survives mere expertise, or finesse, or interpretation.
All ideas are latent until they find form, perhaps, which is to say ideas are art.
Of course, as he was the first to say, they've got to be good ideas. Inc. All rights reserved.