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cblj_backupI caught the bus up Michigan this evening to see LUMA, the Loyola University Museum of Art, whose mission statement is something about celebrating spirituality in art. Which is pretty cool, and certainly art and religion have a long and storied history. And the suffering Jesuses were kept to a minimum which I always appreciate.
LUMA is what I think of as a typical "university" museum -- smallish, with lovely but usually obscure art, mostly teaching examples rather than famous pieces. The entire lower floor is taken up with a textiles exhibit currently, which is not really my thing, so I went up to the Gilded Glory exhibit, which was more my speed.
Glory! And gilding!
They don't allow photography, which is a bit of a shame, because there's a fantastic sort of cabinet deux (that's totally the wrong term but I can't recall the right one) with ornate sphinxes holding up the divider and grotesque busts as supports for the upper half. It has a magnificent carving of the head of Satan (I'm pretty sure; sometimes Moses has horns but usually not such demonic cheekbones) right near the keyhole.
LUMA's website kind of bites but they do have an image of the fascinating Elephant Automated Clock, and quite a striking Dutch Baroque painting of Christ in the temple. It's very badly lit in person, you're probably getting a better view of it than I did standing in front of it.
I always forget, however, that when I do something fun downtown after work, my penance is to catch the train during rush hour. How I suffer for art.
LUMA is what I think of as a typical "university" museum -- smallish, with lovely but usually obscure art, mostly teaching examples rather than famous pieces. The entire lower floor is taken up with a textiles exhibit currently, which is not really my thing, so I went up to the Gilded Glory exhibit, which was more my speed.
Glory! And gilding!
They don't allow photography, which is a bit of a shame, because there's a fantastic sort of cabinet deux (that's totally the wrong term but I can't recall the right one) with ornate sphinxes holding up the divider and grotesque busts as supports for the upper half. It has a magnificent carving of the head of Satan (I'm pretty sure; sometimes Moses has horns but usually not such demonic cheekbones) right near the keyhole.
LUMA's website kind of bites but they do have an image of the fascinating Elephant Automated Clock, and quite a striking Dutch Baroque painting of Christ in the temple. It's very badly lit in person, you're probably getting a better view of it than I did standing in front of it.
I always forget, however, that when I do something fun downtown after work, my penance is to catch the train during rush hour. How I suffer for art.
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Date: 2011-05-25 12:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-25 12:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-25 12:47 am (UTC)apparently, it does?
Date: 2011-05-25 01:24 am (UTC)"When this particular clock strikes the hour, the elephant's eyes rotate and the Turkish figures on top move around in a circle. In addition, the elephant handler's arm moves up and down, propelling the elephant across the table."
Re: apparently, it does?
Date: 2011-05-25 01:36 am (UTC)Re: apparently, it does?
Date: 2011-05-25 02:27 am (UTC)