When we went to the Seattle Art Museum in spring of 2010, we had a chance to see some of the pieces at the nearby Olympic Sculpture Park. One of the works that caused a lot of conversation was “Untitled” by Roy McMakin:
The black chair looks like one of the plastic ones you can get at WalMart, but it’s metal, just like the white “paper” box.
When my significant other Toby was in San Francisco for WordCamp last weekend, he sent me these neat pictures. Look familiar?
This last one is designed to look like what giant computer servers sometimes look(ed) like.
If I had a travel budget to take my class around the world, you can bet a big part of our visits would be spent in museums. Art is such a tremendous way to learn about history and the world around you, and I wish we could spend time close to the masters more often.
I’ll do my best to document my trip today to the Detroit Institute of Art and post it here. The DIA is one of my favorite museums in the world (The Henry Ford is undoubtedly the best, of course, and I also like the National Museum of Scotland and the National Gallery of Art in DC), and going there was about the only thing I told my parents I REALLY wanted to do when I came back to Michigan this summer.
Here are a few pieces by artists we’ve studied that I’m REALLY excited to see.
"Giant Three-Way Plug," Claes Oldenberg"Dancers in Repose," Edgar Degas"Basket Set," Dale Chihuly"The Bird of Washington or Great American Sea Eagle," John James Audubon
This last one is designed to look like what giant computer servers sometimes look(ed) like.
