I love Art Museums.
When I used to work in downtown Chicago, I used to walk to the Art Institute during my lunch hour and wander through its halls one room at a time. I could meander for months and never see it all. The building’s step-back-in-time classical architecture is what art museums are all about.
But in my quest to open my mind and soul to other forms of art, imagine my delight in the structure of modern art museums.
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
You can’t help but notice the unique, almost impossible, angles.
National Museum of American Indian, Washington
Like most Modern Art, these buildings challenge your senses.
Boston Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts
Their designs ask you to make sense of sleek lines and sensual curves.
Porsche Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
Sparkling glass and sleek stainless house countless creations that reflect a different side of the human mind.
Modern Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas
I admit that I don’t always understand a Modernist’s point of view.
Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
But one does not always have to understand to appreciate. Or to feel.
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minnesota
And, after all — isn’t that what Art is supposed to do? Make you feel?
The Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Brazil
I think the view to the outside would be fabulous from the Boston Contemporary Museum of Art, Massachusetts! From the outside in I think I like the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minnesota best. They are all so interesting.
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The Guggenheim in Bilbao Spain is the most impressive architecture I’ve ever encountered in an art museum. Frank Gehry is my kinda guy!
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I love that museum too. I hope to do a future blog on Louise Bourgeois, who has her spider sculpture there.
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I have a picture of me in front of that rainbow Hell Yeah! sign, and I love that museum because of it. Of course, if a museum building can’t challenge our boundaries for what’s good design, then we’re doomed.
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You are soooo right. And I’m glad I am not too old to discover such delights! I hope to hit the museum in Milwaukee this spring.
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I love the MAM. The downstairs cafe is nice. Water views and usually pretty quiet.
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Years ago I used to have lunch at the Art Institute..it was a big open air atrium, gothic pillars and water fountains..you’d never want to leave!
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