Sol LeWitt

Wall drawings, from 1968, MASS MoCA and Dia Beacon LeWitt began making drawings directly on walls in 1968, writing guidelines that other people, usually teams of assistants, carry out. So what you see is one realization of a set of rules, and the interesting question is how much a simple instruction can produce when it fills a room without the artist's own hand. The place to see this properly is MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, where 105 of his large wall drawings fill a 27,000-square-foot building, a collaboration with the Yale University Art Gallery and the Williams College Museum of Art planned to stay on view for 25 years. Dia Beacon also keeps a long-term LeWitt gallery, a good second stop.