11/28
So todays plan is to go check out the Heidelberg Project. This is a several block sized art installation that had been around since 1986. Parts of it have been destroyed by the City of Detroit throughout the years but there are new additions by other artists and there are even a few houses within the neighborhood that are still have families in them.
Here's a better description
Whew, and that wasn't really even all of it. I somehow missed a section down at the end with some glass work and a few other houses. One was covered in dolls and stuffed animals.
So I had been wanting to check out the library and see if there were any scanners I could use to scan some negatives but it turned out that they are closed on Sunday and Monday. Well, directly across the Woodward ave is the Detroit Institute of Art.
They were only open for about 20 more minutes so the ticket person let us in for free.
Huzzah!
Here's some highlights from the DIA
Van Gogh
This hall is just one giant Diego Rivera mural. It is HUGE and completely changed my standards of what a mural can be.
I kind of feel like the contemporary and modern art collection here beats most of the fancy art collections we saw in New York(MOMA,Met,Brooklyn Art Museum)
Naum Gabo 'Linear Construction No.4' 1962
Josef Albers 'Homage to the Square: Shade around Shade' 1962
Marcel DuChamp 'Rotorelief' 1953
Helen Frakenthaler 'The Bay' 1963
Yves Tanguy 'Shadow Country'1927
Joseph Cornell 'Night Songs' 1953
This is another one of those pieces that I've always seen in art history books but never thought too much of, although I dig shadow boxes in a big way. It makes a much bigger impact in person.
William Kentridge 'What Will Come' 2007
This one reminded me of that mind blowing book jacket for Jules Verne's 'The Mysterious Island'
Here's the best link I could find but I know there are better ones out there.
Doris Salecedo 'Atribiliarios(Defiant)' 1993
Kehinde Wiley 'Officer of the Hussars' 2007
Anselm Kiefer 'Das Geviert' 1997
Another one of those, "don't know nuthin til you see it" works
Frank Stella
Nancy Graves 'Variability of Similar Forms' 1970
O
K
that is that.
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