More Art: My favorite exhibit EVER:

[LaraMN]

Richard Avedon at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. I love photography, especially with human subjects.

[kwassa]

1. Anselm Kiefer at the Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles

Huge canvases, extraordinarily powerful show.

included a pic from a different exhibit to show their size.

[LaraMN]

2. Neat- looks very intense!

Definitely not "relaxing!"

[asthmaticeog]

3. The Cy Twombly room at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

I can sit in there for an hour.



As for photography, I saw a wonderful Harry Callhan show (also at the Philly Museum) in '96, and an AMAZING Duane Michaels retrospective in San Francisco in '91. Traveling to visit museums rules, I'd do it constantly if I were idly rich.

[kwassa]

5. I was at RISD when Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind taught there

Siskind





Callahan

[asthmaticeog]

7. You are very fortunate!

Closest I ever got to someone of that stature was a one-week guest-lecture stint Andres Serrano did at my school. He was a swell fellow, and really should consider teaching if he doesn't teach already, but his work? Feh. I'd love to have had a class with Callahan, though, wow!

[kwassa]

8. Callahan was not a great teacher due to his personality

he was a very odd introverted guy.

Siskind, on the other hand, had been a school teacher before he became a photographer, and was an excellent teacher.

The reality was, though, these courses were really taught by the grad students mostly.

I think I saw Andres Serrano give a lecture, too, way back then.

[RubyDuby in GA]

4. Norman Rockwell at the High Museum

It traveled all over the country, but it was really a good exhibit. I will have a freakin' Normam Rockwell Christmas some year if it kills my damn family!!!!!!!!

Oh and the Rodin exhibit was a very close second.

[LaraMN]

6. "I will have a freakin' Norman Rockwell Christmas some year

if it kills my damn family!!!!!!!!"
:rofl: That seems to be my Mom's attitude, every year. She gets real scary.

[deutsey]

10. "We're gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas

since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny fucking Kaye!"

That line cracks my mom and me up every time we watch "Christmas Vacation." :evilgrin:

[deutsey]

9. I really like Rockwell, too

His idealistic sentimenatlity gives him a bad rap among many, but I've always liked his style.