How I Care: Museums

What I Learned on My Last Trip to a Museum

This list was realized after seeing a piece of work by Paul Laffoley at the DeCordova Biennial. His work was not wholly appealing to me, yet I wrote down some notes about my response regardless of not wanting to emulate various qualities I saw (ex: what seemed like an uneccessary profusion of extra inked-in textures that obscure what is a neat symbol idea, yet without aesthetics that made me want to actually spend time with the work). I wrote down four categories that have since been turned into the list below.

What I pay attention to (Re: How I Care)

My Reactions
1) Work that I think is good/ re-act to positively.
2) Work that I don’t think is good/ re-act to negatively
(as opposed to work that doesn’t grab me enough to put in either category)

Connections
1) Work that relates to art historical contexts I know and/ or care about.
2) Work that relates to other artists’ work I know and/or care about.

As a note regarding the title: "How I Care" : a fellow Lewitt intern presented this idea to me after I corrected her perceptin of my attention to a detail ... she smoothed the imaginary blank page before her, and said something to the effect of, "The Way I Care: The Julia Wagner Story." Heh. Thanks, Georgia. Stay tuned for more, "How I Care," headings.

Events this Week

Farmer's Markets: Here, there, and everywhere...

http://www.cambridgepublichealth.org/lifestyle/cambridge-farmers-markets.php

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WEDNESDAY @ 6:30 PM: Madonna Karaoke at the MFA ... What?

http://boston.going.com/event-620121;NEW_DATE_Free_Outdoor_Karaoke_Event_Seeing_Songs


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THURSDAY @ 7:00 PM: Music and/or art.

Music - Live bachata & merengue music (Mozart Park, Jamaica Plain)
http://www.artsboston.org/event/detail/45373

Art - Gallery 263 (Pearl Street, Cambridge) Show Opening: "Repaint"


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FRIDAY in the PM: Art Openings!

Boston Sculpture Gallery ( Harrison Ave, Back Bay) @ 6:00 PM: http://bostonsculptors.com/
(will include installation AND performance art, as well as a survey of the group's artists)

Fourth Wall Project (132 Brookline Ave, Boston) @ 7:00 PM: http://fourthwallproject.com/
(will be less quiet than BSG & very vibrant)

Other Works from the Rose.

Dream date: Wassily Kandinsky and Julie Mehretu ...

This work reminds me of a book cover for Man of LaMancha ...

Morbid. But so chipper in a 50s eery kind of way.

::sighs::

Hand print in the wall. Great hand.

(names and titles to come - all rights to these works are held by the Rose as far as I know)

Hoffman at the Rose.

The following images are clips and wholes of paintings by Hans Hoffman currently on display at Brandeis' Rose Art Museum. I was attracted to some of these for their colors and composition, and to others because their popularity despite the lack of representational rendering made even more acceptable the use of abstract color splashes and squiggles for American painters. Kind of funny - I mean, Hoffman must have had a good sense of humor, and what I perceive as a general acceptance of this kind of work is pleasantly gleeful.

Out to the Rose.

On my way out to Waltham via back roads, I passed by a UMass Waltham complex. I had no idea this existed! It is grand, and isolated, and ivy-covered.

I also discovered a variation on the rotary sign which I had not seen before. When I stoped to take the photograph, a little boy screamed "gross" out the window of a maroon mini-van. It took me a second to realize that he was referring to the squirrel in the road rather than my spandex-clad self. As far as roadkill goes, the squirrel lying close behind me was actually rather intact. That kid has some rude-awakenings ahead of him.

The question-mark sign leaning up agains the rotary sign-pole is a nice commentary on rotaries in general : )