Lugnasa Garlic Planting Moon
As I continue to think about the MIA and my writing process, one aspect looms very large to me. How would I continue to have art in my life in as significant a way, though without the time and subject strictures of the docent year?
Several ideas have occurred to me. Which ones might work? Too soon to know. And, there is the important question of whether they will match the docent experience in both quality of learning and quantity of time with art.
Here the ones I’ve come up with so far:
1. Walker/MIA art blog
2. Put up my own exhibitions using images from the internet. The gallery setting on wordpress would work well, though my tumblr account would, too.
3. Develop a reading program in art history. I’m especially interested right now in contemporary artists theoretical approach to their work.
4. Make a commitment to look at art in new venues: other museums in the Twin Cities, museums in other cities, books, internet resources, especially the Google Art Project.
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848-1900 (National Gallery, D.C.)
February 17–May 19, 2013
The first major survey of the art of the Pre-Raphaelites to be shown in the United States features some 130 paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and decorative art objects.
I’m sure other ideas will emerge. If you have any, let me know.
