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Museum visit. When was your last one?
Son No. 1 comes home from art school for the Passover weekend tonight, and I am thinking it'd be fun to tour an art museum with him on Sunday.
Got me thinking about the last time I was in a museum, which has to have been more than a year ago in L.A. It was a very experimental, modern installation under the theme "art as mind-expanding drug."
When was your last time in a museum? What do you remember most?
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Hmm... That would be the Whitney in about... 2002. Damn, I need to find some local culture. Ugh.
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No, wait. I went to see a Chihuly exhibit at the Orlando Museum Of Art. Last yearish. Oops. Forgot.
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A magnificent Rodin exhibit in the campus museum at University of Michigan.
Small museum, relatively large touring exhibition. It was extremely impressive, and I had a delightful companion at the time.
Christ I am embarassed to say it's been over three fucking years. That's sad.
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The Underground Railroad museam a few months ago! Phenomenal.
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Ah, the glory of being an art history major.
Last semester I had class inside one, so about 3 times daily? :P Now I'm at about once a week. It's really a good feeling to be comfortable in the museum space. IT provides for a much more personal experience.
(And for art lovers, pick up Andy Goldsworthy's "Rivers and Tides." I watched it again last night. He does some really interesting natural work. Available at Blockbuster!)
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hardkandee
(And for art lovers, pick up Andy Goldsworthy's "Rivers and Tides." I watched it again last night. He does some really interesting natural work. Available at Blockbuster!)
I know we DID have that at my store... I'd have to go looksee if it's still in our inventory. Oooo. Neato!
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PaigeDWinter
I know we DID have that at my store... I'd have to go looksee if it's still in our inventory. Oooo. Neato!
Everytime I go to my Blockbuster I think how cool it would be to have you work there! Much better than little Humberto. :O
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I've never been to one
:-[
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hardkandee
Everytime I go to my Blockbuster I think how cool it would be to have you work there! Much better than little Humberto. :O
Egads! :blush:
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Ew, museums? Lol. Um... I went to one in October at Balboa Park... I was on mushrooms and there were a lot of ugly paintings of biblical scenes. Oh, and I went to a vibrator museum in san francisco last summer. :D THAT one, I liked!
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K and I went to LACMA a couple months ago. There was a Magritte exhibit but we just went into the main part and looked at the museum's own collection. I enjoyed it.
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Chicagoeditor
When was your last time in a museum? What do you remember most?
My last visit was fall of 2006. I most remember this modern art exhibit that used reflection in a most unusal and interesting manner.
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hardkandee
(And for art lovers, pick up Andy Goldsworthy's "Rivers and Tides." I watched it again last night. He does some really interesting natural work. Available at Blockbuster!)
OMG, HK, I LOVE Andy Goldsworthy!!! I'm not really an art person, but I just love his stuff so much. My other fave artist is probably Sally Mann.
As for museums: I've recently been at the MOLAA (Museum of Latin American Art) in Long Beach, but I was working in the kitchen, so I don't know if that counts! (They rent the space for catered events.)
I think I was at the MOMA with my mom at some point within the last year, but art museums aren't really my thang...
When I think "museum," I think "natural history." I've been at the AMNH in NYC within the last year and a half--one of my favorite places in the whole wide world.
Also, I went to the Insect Fair at the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History last May--it was awesome! Tons of vendors selling the most amazing pinned and mounted creatures you could imagine! Took my godson and spent a ton of $ getting him all set up with an insect collection. It was so much fun--I highly recommend, esp if you have a child in your life who might be interested.
I especially remember the metallic pink scarab beetles from somewhere in Africa--I wanted one so bad, but the godchild was more interested in big black stag beetles.
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Bella21
Ew, museums? Lol. Um... I went to one in October at Balboa Park... I was on mushrooms and there were a lot of ugly paintings of biblical scenes. Oh, and I went to a vibrator museum in san francisco last summer. :D THAT one, I liked!
Okay, this wasn't expected...But delightful. Mushrooms? Gads that takes me back...
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^Yea. I'm real like, cultured and stuff.
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Imagine: Peace, John Lennon's artwork, last weekend. It was in St. Pete, and it was amazing!!!
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hardkandee
Ah, the glory of being an art history major.
Last semester I had class inside one, so about 3 times daily? :P Now I'm at about once a week. It's really a good feeling to be comfortable in the museum space. IT provides for a much more personal experience.
I am quite envious--however I can possibly return the favor by telling you about the classes I took at the Oriental Institute at University of Chicago. It's a small museum as they go, but has a 40 ton Assyrian human-headed winged bull from Ninevah, and one of those Persian bull's heads from Persepolis, among other amazing and beautiful things.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/museum/virtual/pe/1.html
Not only did I take classes there, but I did some volunteer work drawing reproductions of tiny Babylonian cylinder seals. Sometimes I would do this work in the sub-sub basement, which had to be reached through a succession of stairways, elevators, and locked gates. The light machine (used in the dark) was located right next to a bunch of unopened artifacts, including a large mummy case. Great setting for a horror movie, lol...
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Bella21
...I was on mushrooms and there were a lot of ugly paintings of biblical scenes. Oh, and I went to a vibrator museum in san francisco last summer. :D THAT one, I liked!
Yeah, mushrooms and biblical art would be a strange mix. Now maybe the Dali museum in St. Pete would be better, lol--but I'd rather do mushrooms at a lake or in the desert.
A vibrator museum would be interesting, though not nearly so much for men, perhaps. I'd like to see more ancient sexually oriented artifacts displayed in museums in general.
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I'm going to see Body World 2 at the Museum of Science & Industry this weekend and I'm so excited.
Probably not the type of museum you're refering too, but I've been waiting to go for ages. I'll let you know how it was. I've lived in Chicago for well over a year and haven't been to one singler Museum here:-[ shame on me considering how many there are here. I plan to check as many as I can out this summer though so let me know which one's you like, CE.
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Magdalena_666
I'm going to see Body World 2 at the Museum of Science & Industry this weekend and I'm so excited.
Probably not the type of museum you're refering too, but I've been waiting to go for ages. I'll let you know how it was. I've lived in Chicago for well over a year and haven't been to one singler Museum here:-[ shame on me considering how many there are here. I plan to check as many as I can out this summer though so let me know which one's you like, CE.
Mag, a friend of mine went and was underwhelmed. Of course, he's a dark, twisted individual, so I don't trust his judgement.:D I happen to enjoy The Museum of Science and Industry, too. Another advantage of that one is the chance to poke around Hyde Park.
You've never been the Art Institute? Shame on you! Unlike the Met or, certainly, the Louvre, you can get most of it done in one day, which is great. The Impressionist wing is really cool, as is the Oriental wing.
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Museum of Science & Industry is quite impressive, as is The Art Institute. Do they still have the WW II German U-Boat there?
Hyde Park is an interesting community. Did you know they have the third largest police force of any kind in the entire state of Illinois, just to protect the nerds who go to school there? Second only to Chicago Police and the Illinois State Police, more than the capitol of the state, lol!
Metropolitan Museum of the Arts in NYC is the bomb--I had a 5 year SO whose parents lived less than a block from the main entrance, so when we visited I could just stroll right over.
Museum of Fine Arts is one of my favorites as well, if you can handle driving in Boston.
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Chicagoeditor
Mag, a friend of mine went and was underwhelmed. Of course, he's a dark, twisted individual, so I don't trust his judgement.:D I happen to enjoy The Museum of Science and Industry, too. Another advantage of that one is the chance to poke around Hyde Park.
You've never been the Art Institute? Shame on you! Unlike the Met or, certainly, the Louvre, you can get most of it done in one day, which is great. The Impressionist wing is really cool, as is the Oriental wing.
Well, Sun's my birthday and since it supposed to rain all day:( I'm trying to find indoor things to do. I was thinking Body Worlds, dinner and a movie.
I really want to check out the Art Institute this summer. It's on my list of things to do. I'm really starting to think I have severe Seasonal effective disorder because all winter I was basically a recluse and barely left my apartment, and now that the weather is warming up and we have sun. I just feel so different. I'm really energized and have all these things I want to do now. Thanks for the suggestions, CE.
Other than Museums, a place I would really like to check out is V.I.P's. Specifically because I really, really want to see Tart dance.
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Lola Rose
Imagine: Peace, John Lennon's artwork, last weekend. It was in St. Pete, and it was amazing!!!
I'm SO jealous!! I would have loved to have went.
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I recently saw Night At The Museum, does that count?
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LoveSexMoney
I went to the Abbe in Bar Harbor this past summer. It was inspiring and yet somehow a bit sad. My favorite part was the student art exhibit...kids can really bring a smile to your face...they did to mine. :)
http://www.abbemuseum.org/
Wow, Maine--there's a Maritime Museum in Bath that is great if you are into ships and the sea.
Is it getting warm there yet, lol?