My postcards from paradise...a day in Denver with Tess. Exploring art museums, old and new. This post turned into a crazy long travelogue...you can just look at the pictures if you'd like :)
The MCA has some interesting exhibits...
Thinking About Flying is a project by artist Jon Rubin...
Museum visitors are invited to participate by taking home a pigeon in a carrying case and releasing the pigeon to fly back to its loft on the museum’s roof. As this training process progresses the pigeons will travel distances increasing from a few blocks to over 400 miles.
At once poetic and practical, the temporary placement of the pigeons in visitors’ homes expands not only the artwork, but also the space of the museum itself.
Several exhibits feature the counter culture movements in the 60's and 70's...we sat inside a geodesic dome as images of Drop City, a communal artist colony in southern Colorado moved before us. Photographs of San Francisco’s extravagant theatre groups the Cockettes and the Angels of Light as well as works of modern dancer Anna Halprin are among the works at the MCA.
The Clyfford Still museum...the newest addition to the Denver art scene, is a beautiful museum that houses thousands of Still's works.
I found many of his later...huge canvases to be reminiscent of African and Indian textiles.
We topped the day off with dinner on Larimer square...
and from the City and County building...Peace on Earth...and a Happy New Year.
