What's going on here? This is interesting. These two photographs are of an installation of a Sol LeWitt "Wall Drawing" titled #370 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The story is complicated, but the short version is that artist and sculptor Sol LeWitt designed over a thousand wall drawings, and left extremely detailed instructions for his "drafters" who paint or draw the artworks on walls. This group of five people started by painting this long wall in the museum white, and then set about masking off the whole wall in patterns of stripes, and then rubbing black paint - ten layers - over everything. They have been working on this for weeks, and tomorrow they pull the masking tape off, revealing the new drawings. Fascinating to watch. I needed to use more than one photograph in order to show what the whole project looked like.
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