On a 12 day road trip, Alex and I visited friends and family in NY, VA and NJ, toured lots of good art, and ate just a little too much "good" food. Pictures of our road trip are found
here. On our way out of New England at the start of the trip, we stopped at the
Worcester Art Museum which featured "pardon our appearance" galleries and only select elevators that worked. We were not enchanted. However we were enchanted by the shows at the
Visual Arts Center in Chautauqua NY, where the highlights were
Steve McCurry's pphotography and the student art show. Also enjoyable was the
North Carolina Dance Theatre who are in residence at Chautauqua for the summer. Then it was on to DC for the
Chuck Close show at the Corcoran, an in-depth look at multiple processes of print making used by Mr. Close. The sped-up video of the hand applied ink stenciling process for the Roy Lichtenstein portrait drew a crowd. The Corcoran was free on Saturdays, yay. And as luck would have it, there was another show of Chuck Close work at the
VFMA in Richmond VA, some of which were the end product of the processes shown at the Corcoran. The VFMA also had an excellent collection of Art Nouveau and Art Deco. To cap the art portion of the road trip off, we visited the
Crossroads Art Center in Richmond and caught a roomful of wonderful found metal and lighted wall sculptures (see picture above) by
Kris Krull. A lot of miles and worthwhile art.
On a 12 day road trip, Alex and I visited friends and family in NY, VA and NJ, toured lots of good art, and ate just a little too much "good" food. Pictures of our road trip are found here. On our way out of New England at the start of the trip, we stopped at the Worcester Art Museum which featured "pardon our appearance" galleries and only select elevators that worked. We were not enchanted. However we were enchanted by the shows at the Visual Arts Center in Chautauqua NY, where the highlights were Steve McCurry's pphotography and the student art show. Also enjoyable was the North Carolina Dance Theatre who are in residence at Chautauqua for the summer. Then it was on to DC for the Chuck Close show at the Corcoran, an in-depth look at multiple processes of print making used by Mr. Close. The sped-up video of the hand applied ink stenciling process for the Roy Lichtenstein portrait drew a crowd. The Corcoran was free on Saturdays, yay. And as luck would have it, there was another show of Chuck Close work at the VFMA in Richmond VA, some of which were the end product of the processes shown at the Corcoran. The VFMA also had an excellent collection of Art Nouveau and Art Deco. To cap the art portion of the road trip off, we visited the Crossroads Art Center in Richmond and caught a roomful of wonderful found metal and lighted wall sculptures (see picture above) by Kris Krull. A lot of miles and worthwhile art.
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