HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT RECLUSIVE ARTIST SOL LEWITT LETS HIS WORK SPEAK FOR ITSELF.(LIFESTYLE) From: The Capital Times | Date: November 17, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 Capital Newspapers. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Byline: Kevin Lynch The Capital Times

There's an enigma lurking in the galleries of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. As his close friend Martin Friedman puts it, "So who is Sol LeWitt?"

Friedman, the former curator of the Walker Art Center, poses the rhetorical question in a droll catalog essay about the notoriously reclusive artist. If art is the evidence of a man or woman's creative presence, one has to look closely at LeWitt's work, which is slightly hermetic. Stick with it and you may begin to discover the man who has been called "the father of conceptual art." ...

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