Boston Globe: Things to do around Boston and beyond this weekend
By Globe staff
Updated December 29, 2022
FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES One of a generation of late 1980s-early 1990s artists I tend to think of as romantic conceptualists (Gabriel Orozco being another, to name just one), Gonzalez-Torres’s work frequently involved a subtle invitation, audience participation, and then something to take home. At the Portland Museum of Art, the installation of one of his untitled 1991 installations has a notably sweet resolution. Over time, a pile of candies shaped in a wedge and installed in the corner of the gallery will grow smaller and smaller, until, I imagine, the piece ceases to exist altogether. The nature of the invitation, and its reward, leaves me doubting whether it will last its whole four-month schedule; but maybe post-holiday overindulgence guilt will help.
MURRAY WHYTE
Through April 23. Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, Portland, Maine. 207-775-6148, portlandmuseum.org