Nina Katchadourian is completing a three year artist residency at the Exploratorium this year, and I’m looking forward to her final exhibit. She talks about the new exhibit in her Bad at Sports interview last fall. The interview is a great introduction to her work, which circles around the themes of wonder, dust, and boredom. Nina …
I just ordered a children’s book by Harrell Fletcher, an artist who is committed to making life more interesting than it is. In 2012 he was Artist-In-Residence at The Exploratorium in San Francisco, where he made “The Best Things in Museums are the Windows.” The artwork may not look like art you recognize from museums, but he is …
Scientific American calls it the “best science museum in the world.” And since it’s beginning in 1974, The Exploratorium has hosted an artist-in-residence. The Exploratorium is a playground for thinking and asking questions. And some of my favorite artists, like Nina Katchadourian, Harrell Fletcher, and Tim Hawkinson, have made work here. More importantly, they made work at the Exploratorium …
This week we went to see the exhibition Black is Beautiful at the Paul Jones Collection. It’s a small gallery showing a student curated exhibition from the permanent collection. We kept our visit simple. We ate a cookie in front of our favorite artwork, and we tried to draw the braids from Sheila Pree Bright’s photograph. If you …
This video by Sarah Green and The Art Assignment covers to basics of how to visit to an art museum. It doesn’t include footnotes on taking toddlers or teenagers, but it is a clear overview for adults. Green is visiting the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City that frequently has free children’s programs on Saturdays. …
The Louvre is a great museum. It probably always will be, but I think most people just visit to check it off their to-do list. The first time I visited, I sat happily in the atrium admiring the light and glass and rush of people. I purchased a Mona Lisa memo pad and left. Six …
What do we do in art museums with a preschooler? A lot of counting. We count monkeys, mirrors, animals, hats, etc. It’s surprisingly fun. The monkeys in the video above are part of an installation by Hew Locke. Below are a few more examples of his work, including public art in a field, a church, …
For one week Andrew Raffo Dewar moved his studio into the Ferguson Gallery inside the student center at the University of Alabama (home to 36,000 students). Every day Dewar created a new installation. At the same time, he invited a guest artist to share the space and also make a new artwork. The doors were open, …
When we last visited New Orleans, we made a whole morning out of visiting the New Orleans Museum of Art, and we can’t wait to repeat it! Our perfect family day included a long streetcar ride, beignets, and art. We went to New Orleans to see Prospect New Orleans (P.3). It is a city-wide collaboration to put on one art exhibition, …
I wonder what it would be like to walk up to Alice Aycock’s “A Simple Network of Underground Wells & Tunnels” with a group of adults. I can’t imagine that they would sprint to the openings as if they had waited their whole life for this, then freeze realizing that the irresistible wells are equally terrifying. It’s …