Visting Boston Museums

Went to Cambridge and Boston today to look at some museums and their contemporary art exhibits. The bus arrived late, so we had to wait in the cold for it to come. Our first stop was at the Bush-Reisinger/Fogg and Arthur M. Sackler Museum. I'm not able to put any of the pictures up from the Bush and Fogg museum, but I have to say that they have some wonderful pieces of art, including some Cubism that I am studying in class. However, like the rest of the day, I was pretty much in a rush to get through everything because our schedule had become so restrained from the lateness of the bus. The Sackler Museum had some very nice Buddhist pieces but I was unable to find any contemporary exhibit.

After lunch in Harvard Sq where I met up with an old friend, we headed to the MIT Visual Art Center. I was not able to take any pictures here either, but they had some interesting video exhibits. One of them used three screens to tell one story through different perspectives of the house at the same time. It was an examination of the failure of space and time and at some points reality. One of them had a blurry video of a woman yelling in a high pitch chipmunk voice and another student stated that he was "too sober" to really watch it. HAHA. It would probably be really interesting in another state of mind.

The surrounding architecture to the museum has some amazing works, including the ones below.







Our last visit was at the the new Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.




It is built right on the waterfront of the harbor and it's architecture is simply beautiful and amazing. However, the only exhibit space was on the 4th floor and was a let down for me because I thought there would be a lot of work from artists and not just 1 floor. The work that was there was intriguing and smart, including a huge abstract spider that took up an entire room. You can walk under it and it's use of space and black color was very intimidating and frightening. They also had a futuristic exhibit that showcased furniture, architecture designs, clay models from Disney movies, robots, and an interactive program where you ask a computerized person, in this case a soldier, a question and it recognizes words and tries to answer back. However, we were unable to get a question answered correctly.



The only room I was able to take a picture in looked straight out onto the water with an entire wall of windows.



Taken outside



Loved the single red ball



The outside has wooden stand seating that looks right out onto the water.

We finally said goodbye to Boston around 4:45 pm and headed home. I wish we had more time to look around the city, but the semester is ending soon and I will have plenty of time to visit it again. I hope you all enjoyed the photos and have a wonderful weekend while I work nonstop on my school work.

Ciao!