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Vatican Treasures
Vatican Treasures is in its last few weeks at the Minnesota History Center, and I visited yesterday with a friend. No pictures were allowed in the exhibit, sorry. Art and artifacts were from the Vatican’s collection, and a few pieces were labeled as being their first public viewing. I believe the oldest art might have…
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Translations
One of the things that having a self-hosted WordPress blog offers is the ability to add plugins, additions to the basic theme. The common statistic plugin I use shows me what link visitors come from. Occasionally that link is a translator, so I added one, available on the sidebar. I chose a few languages; there’s…
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Hindsight is always 20/20
This art exhibit at the Weisman Art Museum on the campus of the University of Minnesota, was compelling and fun at the same time. R. Luke Dubois looked at the frequency of words in the State of the Union address by the previous 43 presidents, and placed them according to frequency in an eyechart; the…
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Today at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts
It’s such a treat to have a great museum like MIA in my city, and free — then I can go and enjoy a few of the galleries, spending an hour, and not feel guilty or like I should spend more time. I get more out of a museum experience when I don’t spend so…
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Lisa Call, textile artist
I really am a bead person as far as whom I read and follow online, with a couple notable exceptions. Lisa Call is one of them, an artist of abstract contemporary textile art. She hand-dyes her own fabric, and creates all her pieces one piece at a time (no strip quilting). Lisa creates both large…