Museum Hopper

on the first thursday of every month , seattle hosts gallery art tours in the pioneer square district .  since jason and i happened to be in eattle on that date, i just could not help myself. we had to go and "get it out of the way" for my summer in seattle.  we got there as it was starting and i was very impressed at the quantity of galleries that existed in this little area.  i am not sure i would have ever noticed them if not for this tour.  i think we were a little amazed at the variety of people enjoying the art.  we saw serious art collectors to tourists likes us to "hipsters" visiting their artist friends.  it was definitely all over the board.  the galleries also varied from small single artist spaces to large galleries that seemed to have more developed artists.  one of the shows even was of an artist from michigan!  some of the art was quite out there.  jason definitely did not enjoy it.  i would have loved to have spoke...

i recently started attending the university of michigan ross school of business for my mba degree.  ross just opened up a brand new building filled with beautiful art.  kathleen dolan is the curator and calls it " ross art ."  as she states, it is a collection of modern art mostly concentrating on art created since the 1960s.  it is a collection of photography, painting, and sculpture literally filling in the school.   Alexander Calder as you enter the new ross building, there is a pamphlet which contains a list of all the art.  at the top though (this surprised me), it lists a number you can call to get descriptions of about 10 pieces of art!  today, i called those and listened to the descriptions.   i enjoy her selections.  my personal favorites are right outside the zell lurie institute.  they are by frank stella and alexander calder; coincidentally they had created two out of the four bwm " art cars " on view last year....

as my company does every year, we get a day off to volunteer around the community. last year, i went to the bronx zoo to volunteer. this year, i volunteered for the rema hort mann foundation . the foundation supports undiscovered, starving artists and provides travel expenses to loved ones of cancer patients. they were hosting an art craw l for to raise money. the organizers had selected a 14 galleries around the lower east side to visit in small groups. we started off going to the gallery, canada. you would never know it was there if you did not already know! the artist, katherine bernhardt, was in residence with her exhibit, tombouctou 52 jours, which was heavily influenced by moroccan rugs. we went to another gallery that had sort of papier mache sculptures. the artist called it his jungle. a lot of them hung from ceiling and were influenced by chinese flowers. another artist takes objects that he finds around and call them found art (or other people's art). then he m...