The above is my image of detail from Heidi Whitman’s work at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. My younger daughter and I were there this weekend for the thirtieth anniversary of the Moby-Dick Marathon, for which we were both readers. This year’s event commemorated Melville’s 1841 departure aboard the whaleship Acushnet: It has been 185 years since the adventure that yielded Moby-Dick and 175 years since the publication of the novel.
The above are my images of details from the following works of art: Le Jardine (1959-60) by Herbert Gentry; Floral Still Life (1880-90) by Charles Ethan Porter; The Piper (1953) by Hughie Lee-Smith; Four Days and Four Nites (2019-2020) by Jim Denomie; and The Suicide of Mr. H. (1961) by Asger Jorn.
At the Adler Planetarium on Tuesday.
Last week, we attended a Friday tour of Theaster Gates: Unto Thee at the Smart Museum.
Visited this weekend.
On Friday morning at the Art Institute, I encountered the painting above, “Composition” (1936-37) by Maria Helena Viera da Silva. The plaque beside it attributes the following quote to the artist:
“I paint my amazement, which at the same time is delight, fear and laughter. I do not want to exclude anything from this amazement. I want to paint pictures with many things, with all the contradictions.”
The above are images I captured at “Painting His World” at the Art Institute.
Nerdishly 