Museum Hopper

A couple of weekends ago, I dashed into the Cincinnati Art Museum to see the Treasures of the Spanish World exhibit.  The exhibit was created by the Hispanic Society and very c learly, the descriptions were written by the Hispanic Society.  The exhibit spanned the typical exhibit hall and then also one of the other halls sometimes used for exhibit too.   With my annual membership, I had free admission to the exhibit. The exhibits starts much further back than expected, which if I had read the description closely, I would have known.  It focuses on the holistic Iberian peninsula.  The exhibit is set up chronologically and has a mixture of art mediums.  The exhibit had descriptions of the art in both English and Spanish.  As i mentioned earlier, the descriptions were definitely written by the Hispanic Society as a few of them were quite complimentary about their collection and its possessions.   So I did end up taking a bunch of photos during the exhibit. A miniature of a cr

I had a quick, less than 48 hrs in Chicago a few weeks ago for a work session.  I may have done my best to make sure that when I was in town I could head to the Art Institute of Chicago  with the sole purpose of going to the Warhol exhibit.  I saw that I had just missed it in NYC and was excited to see that it was in Chicago!  If I had not been able to make it on a work trip, I probably would be trying to squeeze in a weekend trip!   I walked there directly after work and checked in my bags.  I did wait about 20 minutes in line to get my tickets.  Once I had my tickets, I bee-lined directly to the exhibit, which was in the back of the museum to the right.  The exhibit, Andy Warhol -- From A to B and Back Again , was the first time in decades a single focused exhibit has been done on Warhol .  Honestly, I did not know much about him.   The entrance to the exhibit shows some of the vast collection of portraits that he did.  It set the stage for the rest of the exhibit. The