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Cyn and I went to Chicago for the afternoon.
Saw the Vivian Meyer exhibition. I was a little disappointed in it, since there were fewer photographs than I expected. I've seen quite a few on the blog. Unlike at some times, I didn't feel like I was gaining that much by seeing the photos in person. The best thing about it was that the photos were in small groupings which had themes or similarities. And there were a couple of glass cases with cameras, post cards, her hats, things like that.
The show was in the Chicago Cultural Center. The building was once the public library, and it beautiful! The south end interior has several flights of marble staircases with a lot of mosaic. The upper levels are brass staircases. The Protégé Philharmonic was practicing for a later performance of Offenbach’s Orpheus In The Underworld: Overture; Sibelius’ Finlandia, Op. 26; and Tchaikolvsky’s Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36. This was under the Tiffany dome.
We walked west down Washington Avenue and paused at Daley Plaza, near Picasso's Coyote Angel, and reenacted the famous scene from The Blues Brothers. "Hut hut hut hut!" This was why we brought ropes. We couldn't reenact the chase on Lower Wacker Drive, since it was torn up for construction, and open to the sky.
We went across the river, and walked down to Monroe, and took that for a few blocks, until we found The Rookery Building. Fantastic architecture. We stopped for lunch at the Elephant & Castle (British style pub) Then we wandered around for a while. Found a Chagall mural/mosaic. Then went down State, to the Harold Washington Public Library. It's an impressive building, for one so new. It was designed to be the largest public library in the world, or something like that. Then we went over to the Museum of Contemporary Photography. They had a couple of interesting exhibits. One was of art created on an artists' voyage to Antarctica, to highlight climate change.
Then we came home.
So basically, it was a photowalk, with a couple of stops for photographic exhibits. I think I took about a hundred pictures. And it was cold.
Saw the Vivian Meyer exhibition. I was a little disappointed in it, since there were fewer photographs than I expected. I've seen quite a few on the blog. Unlike at some times, I didn't feel like I was gaining that much by seeing the photos in person. The best thing about it was that the photos were in small groupings which had themes or similarities. And there were a couple of glass cases with cameras, post cards, her hats, things like that.
The show was in the Chicago Cultural Center. The building was once the public library, and it beautiful! The south end interior has several flights of marble staircases with a lot of mosaic. The upper levels are brass staircases. The Protégé Philharmonic was practicing for a later performance of Offenbach’s Orpheus In The Underworld: Overture; Sibelius’ Finlandia, Op. 26; and Tchaikolvsky’s Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36. This was under the Tiffany dome.
We walked west down Washington Avenue and paused at Daley Plaza, near Picasso's Coyote Angel, and reenacted the famous scene from The Blues Brothers. "Hut hut hut hut!" This was why we brought ropes. We couldn't reenact the chase on Lower Wacker Drive, since it was torn up for construction, and open to the sky.
We went across the river, and walked down to Monroe, and took that for a few blocks, until we found The Rookery Building. Fantastic architecture. We stopped for lunch at the Elephant & Castle (British style pub) Then we wandered around for a while. Found a Chagall mural/mosaic. Then went down State, to the Harold Washington Public Library. It's an impressive building, for one so new. It was designed to be the largest public library in the world, or something like that. Then we went over to the Museum of Contemporary Photography. They had a couple of interesting exhibits. One was of art created on an artists' voyage to Antarctica, to highlight climate change.
Then we came home.
So basically, it was a photowalk, with a couple of stops for photographic exhibits. I think I took about a hundred pictures. And it was cold.
