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it was oh so cold and windy today in our part of the world but the sun was shining bright so we dared to venture out to dia: beacon.  dia is a museum in a beautiful spot along the hudson river.  it's housed in a restored nabisco box printing factory, a perfect space for a museum.  old wood floors beautifully worn, skylights everywhere and art - just a great combination.  if you like art that you can walk around, look into, peer over and even walk into then i think you will love this place.  

perhaps most famously, they have an andy warhol installation.  72 huge canvases hung end to end encircling a room the size of my house.  sol lewitt's precise, geometric pencil drawings on white walls 15 feet tall.  then there is my favorite, torqued ellipses by richard serra.  massive 16 foot tall steel spiral pieces that curve sensually in toward each other and out again.  the rusted steel is gorgeous and tempts you to touch it.  

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i love days like these, being immersed in a creative atmosphere and soaking it all up.  what did you do this weekend?  we've got winter break this week so i plan on sleeping in a couple of days.  i'm so looking forward to that. 

goodnight kids, sweet dreams

rebellion

i am in love with this adorable form of rebellion.  yarn bombing is a little like graffiti but with yarn of course, and has got to be the cutest way to beautify a public space.

here's what wiki says: Yarn bombing, yarnbombing, yarnstorming, guerrilla knitting, urban knitting or graffiti knitting is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colorful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk.

i love the term guerrilla knitting - i imagine a group of sweet old grannies lurking about late at night, bombing stop signs and bus stops, even though i know full well knitting and crocheting are the art forms of choice of the grandchildren of those grannies in my imagination.

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this is very cool stuff, right?

have a great sunday!

inspiration

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middle son and i went to mass moca (massachusetts museum of contemporary art) this past weekend and i have been talking about it, to anyone who will listen, ever since.  what do you think about contemporary art? more and more i find myself drawn to it.  i love the way these artists are stretching the boundaries of what is considered art.  the conversation they inspire is exhilarating and energizing.  

ok, ok... enough talking.  here's some visuals that i hope will inspire you to go and actually see the real thing.

 janice wright cheney's  bear from the oh canada exhibition, is made of felt roses

sopheap pich's compound, part of the invisible cities exhibit 

kim morgan's latex cast of a life size lighthouse from oh canada 

diane landry

clint neufeld

sanford biggers the cartographer's cononundrum

graeme patterson's the mountain