COVID-19 Lockdown Museum Item 24 - Really Big Toes at the Gallerie Dell'Accademia in Venice
On the basement floor of the Gallerie dell' Accademia in Venice are some enormous stone toes. I don't know where they are from or any details. The Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice doesn't seem to post anything about its collections. I'm curious as to where this came from but cannot find anything about it. Click on the photo to reach their site.
COVID-19 Lockdown Museum Item 23 - Vincent van Gogh - Portrait of a Man, Houston
About a year ago we had a long wait for a return flight from Houston, so we made a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts sight unseen. As luck would have it, were rewarded to the Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Art exhibit on perhaps its last day. It was a tad crowded, but manageable. This is Portrait of a Man from 1888. I was drawn to the piece as the style looked....slightly different than his other works. It was an immaculate show, and one thing I liked were the contemporary cherr
COVID-19 Lockdown Museum Item 22 - Chris Burden's Urban Lights at the LACMA
Pomona College Alumni Chris Burden created this installation around 2008 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art after collecting street lamps for around 8 years. There are 202 vintage street lamps (no replicas) assembled into this forest of lights. The piece has shown up in popular culture including a few movies and TV series. Click on the photo for a link to the search function on the LACMA page. Plenty to choose from.
COVID-19 Lockdown Museum Item 20 - Display of Cedar Masks at the Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver,
It looks like there is a variety of creatures represented with the masks displayed in this cabinet at the Museum of Anthropology on the campus of the University of British Columbia. All I know is that it is a crazy extensive collection. For every one or two pieces you can see down here in Seattle, there are 6 -10 -who know 20 more displayed here. Certainly worth a visit anytime you're in Vancouver. I could spend days there. Click on the photo to go to the museum's main page.
COVID-19 Lockdown Museum Item 21- View Camera Belonging to Edward Curtis - Seattle Art Museum
Double Exposure was an exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum that juxtaposed vintage Edward Curtis images with artworks by contemporary Native American artists. Pretty cool that they had one of Curtis' personal view cameras in the display. Click on the photo to link to the Double Exposure exhibit.
COVID-19 Lockdown Museum Item 19 - For Handel Sculpture by Mark di Suvero, Western Washington
Western Washington University has an awesome outdoor sculpture collection including this sizable di Survero classic. Installed in 1975, it originally had a platform hung below the intersection of the beams that would swing, but this feature was removed a few years later. Click on the photo to go to the WWU site.
COVID-19 Lockdown Museum Item 18 - Miss Britain III Raceboat - National Maritime Museum Greenwich
Found this beauty at the Nation Maritime Museum in Greenwich England while visiting for the Olympics. We were there during Seafair week so this was a close as I could come to an unlimited hydroplane. The boat traveled to the US in 1933 to compete for the Harmsworth trophy, much like the America's Cup, but for powerboats. Click on the photo for a link to the National Maritime Museum site
COVID-19 Lockdown Museum Item 17- Martin Puryear's Tabernacle @ the Venice Biennale
I had heard of Puryear but was not really that familiar with his work. I kind of consider him an artist's artist. I think that he was a fine selection for the event. His art pieces were extremely well crafted and very contemplative works for me. Click n the picture to go to the site dedicated to the Biennale exhibit
COVID-19 Lockdown Museum Item 16 -Lockheed M-21 Blackbird Spy Plane, the Museum of Flight Seattle
This M-21 Lockheed Blackbird was built for the CIA in 1964 and is one of the fastest airplanes ever assembled. This particular example has a drone attached to its back and is the last remaining example of this variant. Click on the photo to go to the museum of flight site.
COVID-19 Lockdown Museum Item 15 -Hieronymus Bosch, Saint Wilgefortis Triptych - Venice
One of the first museums we visited on out Italy trip was the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice. We were rewarded with an exhibit of freshly cleaned́́́/restored Hieronymus Bosch panels and triptychs including the Saint Wilgefortis Triptych. All of the panels simply glowed. The work is sometimes referred to as The Crucifixion of St Julia as well. Normally it is housed in the Palazzo Ducale, so I guess it was moved nearby for its reveal. Since it looks like you cannot browse
