Thursday, December 16, 2004

a moment of culture

Despite living in Central Indiana for - er, too long - I've never visited the Eiteljorg Museum. In the interests of keeping my mood positive (tends to mean that I use a slightly more reasonable grading policy) I took the morning off to tour the Lewis & Clark exhibit.

The Eiteljorg is an art museum, so rather than seeing artifacts of the expedition, they have a terrific display of paintings done by a contemporary artist who spent several months driving, hiking and boating their path, and then painting what he saw. Thus some paintings were of woods, valleys and rivers, while others were of the St. Louis Arch, modern day bridges, etc. It was really neat, and just the right length - took me about forty minutes to walk through, reading all of the cards. Eiteljorg specializes in Native American art, so they had lots of information on both sides of the story. They also included lots of quotations from the expedition journals, early 19th century observations and the artists comments. I should have gone sooner, and am excited to visit when the next exhibit goes up.

Words Written: zero
Lessons Graded: There are sixty waiting for me. (sigh)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

lemming:

link is incorrect.

mako

Editor B said...

I used to work at the Eiteljorg as a security guard. Night shift. Easy money.

I knew some anthropologists who sold Eiteljorg some stuff. They called him "Eitelbucks."

Anonymous said...

Kinda sounds like what the new Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian should be like.

Regards,
tommyspoon