Well look who comes crawling back to Museum Minute …me! I read somewhere that when a blog is silent, life is noisy. Or, something like that. Anyhow, it’s been a busy few months and I wanted to write, I just, well, didn’t. Please forgive me! But anyway, something fun happened over Thanksgiving weekend that I … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Art
Front and Center: Student Exhibitions at Dartmouth
Last week, I was lucky enough to visit Hanover, New Hampshire at the peak of autumn. When I wasn’t engaged in my excellent Society of American Archivists workshop on Managing Electronic Records, I ventured around the Dartmouth campus. The Hood Museum of Art was a must-see on my list of prospective stops. This free museum … Continue reading
An Il-LUMA-nating Experience
Har-dee-har-har. Really, an Il-LUMA-nating experience? Just stop. I’m sure the post title has been used to death but to be perfectly honest, my recent trip to LUMA — the Loyola University Museum of Art in Chicago — was an illuminating experience! The museum is currently celebrating their fifth anniversary but I’m mostly familiar with them … Continue reading
Brunnier, Wyeth and the Baby-Sitters Club
I recently ventured north to Ames, Iowa and visited the Brunnier Art Museum at Iowa State University. ISU has four museums on campus: the Brunnier Art Museum, the Christian Peterson Art Museum, the Farm House Museum and the Textiles and Clothing Museum. In addition, there is also a sculpture garden on campus, the Anderson Sculpture … Continue reading
Don’t Eat the Pictures!
Does today’s blog title mean anything to you? Were you a little kid in the 1980s? (or a parent of a little kid?) Well, I was. And, being a little kid in the 1980s, one of my favorite TV specials was a one-hour show entitled, “Don’t Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum … Continue reading
Texture in Art
Before I traveled to Europe in 2001, I didn’t appreciate art. At all. Blech. I had more important things to think about (or so I thought.) But to be honest, I think my problem was that I hadn’t really experienced art. Sure, I lived in Chicagoland and secretly claimed Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the … Continue reading
Have you heard?
The Des Moines Art Center is starting a book club! I’ll be perfectly honest with you — I haven’t been a consistent reader since I outgrew the Babysitter’s Club series. But, this sounds like an interesting way to get involved with the Art Center. So, I bought the first book through BetterWorldBooks on Amazon.com (for … Continue reading
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