kat, john and i went to the IMA today...it was good, except john was a bit too squirmy - i like to take my time looking at the artwork - he wanted to rush to the one thing he thought was really cool and then kinda blew off stuff we found interesting. *shrug*
i really enjoyed Amorphic Robot Works: The Feisty Children, a hands-on exhibit showing from May 6 through July 31, 2005 - as the website explains:
Amorphic Robot Works: The Feisty Children is an installation of ten robotic “children” that lurch, shuffle and gyrate to their own individual beat. Amorphic Robot Works (ARW), a collective of artists, engineers and technicians based in New York City who share artistic inspiration and work together to create robotic performances and installations, developed The Feisty Children. Led by artistic director Chico MacMurtrie, ARW invites viewers to consider the relationships between people, nature and machines.
as far as paintings, i most enjoyed Edward Hopper's Hotel Lobby - i've seen Hopper's works in books and such previously and found them interesting, but seeing a work up close and personal makes for such a different experience. the museum describes the work in saying, "Urban loneliness and the banality of everyday existence are persistent themes in Hopper's paintings." - perhaps it's because i'm really relating to those issues nowadays that the painting really stood out to me - lonelieness, banality...yup, that pretty much sums it up for me.
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