Off the Porch...
One of the pleasures of summer is sitting on the porch whiling away a summer afternoon. At some point, one needs to get off the porch and see a bit of the world. I traveled by train to Chicago earlier this month to see the exhibition, Charles White: A Retrospective and prints by Elizabeth Catlett at the Art Institute of Chicago. I had the pleasure of spending three days meandering through the museum discovering a painting by Alma Thomas, works by Constantin Brancusi and a showcase full of Joseph Cornell's assemblages. By the third day, my energy did not match my enthusiasm and I decided to venture into the museum's Pritzker Garden located in the Modern Wing. Though the garden is an open-air space, it has the feel of an interior courtyard, with the Modern Wing surrounding it on three sides. Ellsworth Kelly's, White Curve graces a garden wall. Made of painted aluminum and 54 feet in length, this monumental sculpture is the largest artwo...