THE ART OF LIVING

28 August 2009  |  Week in Review  |  Fine Art

August 22 – August 28

This week: Mass MoCA makes room for Sol LeWitt’s retrospective of wall drawings; Cai Guo-Qiang’s traveling exhibition takes over the Guggenheim Bilbao; the Brooklyn Museum lets visitors choose their own adventure; and photographer David Benjamin Sherry publishes his first book It's Time.

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• Sol LeWitt, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Sol LeWitt’s mammoth retrospective of wall drawings at Mass MoCA describes the arc of a great career by borrowing the artist’s lucid simplicity and following an idea as far as it will go. Reviewed by Ariella Budick. From FT.com

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• Art with a Bang Cai Guo-Qiang’s explosive new retrospective takes over the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. The widely popular traveling exhibition features flying wolves, floating cars, and plenty of fireworks. From TheDailyBeast.com

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• “Choose Your Own Adventure” at the Brooklyn Museum This week, the Brooklyn Museum launched its self-guided smart-phone tours, akin to audio tours of old but with one major difference: Nothing is preordained. Neither the museum nor the mobile device knows where it’s going to take you. From ARTINFO.com

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• Photographer David Benjamin Sherry's Book of Three Ecstatic Years The 28-year-old photographer creates enthusiastic, eccentric photographs that transform the landscape, his friends, and himself into a sometimes psychedelic, sometimes punk, always rich and rather glamorous fantasy of youth in paradise. Alex Gartenfeld reviews his first book, It's Time. From ArtinAmericaMagazine.com