Here’s a few keepers from the Chicago trip that go beyond the A-Z series. Everything behind the jump is from my day at the Art Institute with some of my dearest friends. And I’m not just talking about the Monets – which, we’ve discussed, Jimmy, make me powerfully emotional.
This pic is courtesy of my friend Eva, who works at Chicago’s NPR affiliate out on Navy Pier – where they produce “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me”. She had access to a little non-public hallway that gave me this perfect vantage point on the temporary Winter Wonderland set up for the kiddies.
Next to this Monet, the placard quoted from a letter he wrote a friend: “Know that I am absorbed by my work…These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It is beyond my power as an old man, and yet I want to manage to render what I feel. I have destroyed some…Some I have begun again…and I hope that out of so many efforts, something will emerge.” I could never write it better in all my days.
Hey Buddha, someone’s looking over your shoulder.
That Magritte – such a jokester
Chess set by Man Ray
I immediately forgot to record the name of the sculptor of this piece, but Rowdy Katie, to my astonishment, knew it on sight: Constantin Brâncuşi, Leda
Not what I usually think of when I picture the flash-card generic image of a Mondrian, but I thought it was quite stirring, all the same.