Not exact matches
Afterwards, maybe check
out the Picasso
Museum for an artistic experience before grabbing dinner and a
glass of sangria.
The
museum is sold
out of eclipse
glasses, however guests participating in the day's events will have two options for safely viewing the maximum partial eclipse: A community viewing party with solarscopes and a live stream
of eclipse sites from across the country in The Lab and Magic Wings Butterfly House.
Look
out for the special «
museum lates» where your favourite places stay open after - hours, so you can browse with a
glass of wine and have a fun - filled evening.
If you're feeling adventurous, pick a few favorites, print
out some pictures (i.e. a picture
of art for an art
museum, coffee for a coffee date, Miles Davis for a jazz night), choose a meeting place, have a
glass of wine, and let your date choose the adventure!
For two
of the more unique Venice attractions, check
out the Jewish
Museum which details the rich history
of the Jewish people in Venice, and the
Glass Museum on the island
of Murano, which has a fine collection
of typical glasswork from the area.
Sculptural constructions by Richard Stankiewicz, Betye Saar, and Abe Ajay, a mobile by Alexander Calder, a large
glass piece by Dale Chihuly, and several large - scale metal pieces by Seymour Lipton — some
of which are currently on view in the Hamer Sculpture Garden — round
out the
museum's collection
of post-war sculpture.
The Aldrich Contemporary Art
Museum is about 20 min away from the
Glass House, but certainly worth a look while you're
out in the countrysides
of Connecticut.
These objects fall into the standard range
of museum merchandising: the mugs are silkscreened
glass or white porcelain, bags are
of untreated cotton, candles play on transparency, the umbrellas recall the
glass sails, make - up bags turn inside -
out.
Group shows have included Building Blocks: Contemporary Works from the Collection,
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School
of Design, Providence, Rhode Island (2011), Painting the
Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture, The Aldrich Contemporary Art
Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2008), and
Out of Line: Drawings from the Collection
of Sherry and Joel Mallin, Herbert F. Johnson
Museum, Cornell University, New York (2006).
Tilda Swinton Is Currently Art at MoMA — The actress and artist has brought a performance piece titled The Maybe to the
museum in which she lies in a
glass box for the whole day (but only on random days, with an unannounced schedule) for the viewing pleasure
of agog visitors, and it turns
out she did this at London's Serpentine too all the way back in 1995 (predating James Franco!).
At 6:15 p.m., Barry Curator
of Glass Diane Wright will give a private tour
of Rene Lalique: Enchanted by
Glass, followed by a 7 p.m. lecture / demonstration, «Lalique Inside and
Out: A Studio Approach to Process and Techniques» by Amie McNeel at the Chrysler
Museum Glass Studio.
Image Credit: Tavares Strachan You Belong Here (Yellow), 2012 (detail) Blocked -
out neon and
glass Blanton
Museum of Art, University
of Texas at Austin Gift
of Anthony Meier in honor
of Jeanne & Michael Klein, 2014.
, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, US Intervention / Decoration, Foreground Projects, Frome, Somerset, UK Ambition d'Art, Institute d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne - Lyon, FR Redone, Kröller - Müller
Museum, Otterlo, NL A Bookcase for Onestar Press by Lawrence Weiner, Christophe Daviet - Thery, Paris, FR Mes Amis, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL Reconstruction # 3: Artists» Playground, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, UK Advancing the Experience: Robert Ryman & Urs Raussmüller, Hallen für Neue Kunst, Schaffhausen, CH Art Basel, Kino Mascotte, Basel, CH Cul - de-sac, curated by Lino Polrgato, Small Dead End Courts Around Venice, IT 2008: FREEDOM - American Sculpture, curated by Marie Jeanne de Rooij, Stichting Den Haag Sculptuur, Den Haag, NL Revolutions - Forms That Turn, Biennale
of Sydney,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AU Slow
Glass, Lisa Cooley, New York, US Thoughts On Democracy: Reinterpreting Norman Rockwell's «Four Freedoms» Poster, The Wolfsonian, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, US artCRUSH, Aspen Art
Museum, Colorado, US NOLEFTOVERS, Kunsthalle Bern, CH Translocomotion 7th Shanghai Biennale, curated by Julian Heynan, Henk Slager, Shanghai, CN German Angst, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, DE TEXT drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, UK Drawings on Graph Paper, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, US Pleinairism, curated by Kitty Scott, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, IS Une Grosse Caisse dans un Orchestre Symphonique, Center d'art Contemporain, Saint Restitut, FR Variation 1, Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna, AT Wall Rockets: Contemporary Art Artists and Ed Ruscha, curated by Lisa Dennison, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, US; Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, US XX, CAG, Vancouver, CA Wall Works, Buchmann Galerie, Lugano, CH ABC No Rio 2008 Gala & Benefit Auction, Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts, New York, US The Panza Collection, The Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, US 2 x -LSB-(2 x 20) + (2 x 2)-RSB- + 2 = XX (DESPERATELY) TRYING TO FIGURE
OUT THE WORLD, curated by Konrad Bitterli, Part I, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, CH, Part II, Brook Alexander Gallery, New York, US Collected Visions Modern and Contemporary Works from the JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, Pera
Museum, Istanbul, TR This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK Love Love Love, Martos Gallery, New York, US Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia, curated by Marta Kuzma, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo, NO Passage To The North, screening SI Annual Benefit, Swiss Institute, New York, US Posesion, curated by Montserrat and Pablo Sigg, Petra, Mexico City, MX Now You See It, Aspen Art
Museum, Colorado, US Order.
Located on a landmark site on the edge
of the fjord and divided into two halves separated by water, the
museum is a spectacular architectural addition to the waterfront, constructed
out of wood with a dramatic double curved
glass roof.
Cigarettes and smoking have featured repeatedly in Hirst's works, as a series
of stubs individually isolated and displayed on seventeen rows
of narrow shelves in a
glass - fronted cabinet in Dead Ends, Died
Out, Examined 1993 (private collection), or heaped in a stinking mass
of butts, ash and other smokers» detritus in an eight foot wide white ashtray called Party Time 1995 (Denver Art
Museum).