Category: Museums and galleries

  • Installation at the Weisman

    As you enter the Weisman Art Museum on campus of the University of Minnesota, this is what is directly to the left of the main desk: Walk around the wall and look straight right, and you see this: Back up and get a wider view, and this is what you see: Still further back: And…

  • Beads at the 2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings Exhibition

    I took a quick look through the artwork that has been accepted into the 2012 JMM Exhibition. There are beads! This exhibition will be held in the exhibit hall in the Hynes Convention Center in Boston during the January 4-7, 2012. The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS) are the hosting…

  • If I were in Venice…

    …I’d be visiting the Palazzo Mocenigo. One exhibit I’d want to see is Alexandre Vassiliev. L’eleganza in esilio (Elegance in exile). Vassiliev is a collector of the costumes of the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev of the early 1900s, and the lavish fashion dresses of the time worn by Russian expats. The exhibit is on display until…

  • Beads at SOFA Chicago

    If you’re at all interested, go take a look at the post that Nathalie Mornu of Lark Crafts wrote on SOFA Chicago and BEADS! Pictures of work by Jeanette Ahlgren, Betsy Youngquist, Joyce Scott, and more. Thanks, Nathalie!

  • Minnesota State Fair 2011

    Here are some of the pictures that I took at the Minnesota State Fair, which I attended about a month ago. Click on any to enlarge. Enjoy! First up are pictures of the beadwork in the Creative Activities building, where everything entered is accepted. These are a few of the pieces that caught my eye.…