As an art blogger who occasionally gets into architecture, I appreciate your architectural reviews. I have not seen the Bruce Goff exhibition yet, but hope to get there -- will reread this review before I go. Many people agree that there's an unwelcoming feeling coming from the Art Institute today, and I personally don't understand the new layout of paintings. The volunteers at the help desk should return; they were a big help. The Art Institute took out all its monumental sculpture in the Roger McCormick Gallery, a big loss. We have a petition to return the Lorado Taft statue back to display in the museum. Would you consider signing it?https://www.change.org/p/return-lorado-taft-s-the-solitude-of-the-soul-for-display-at-the-art-institute-of-chicago
Rachel, I agree with your review, having had much the same reaction after taking it in. I left feeling unsatisfied thinking that there was an aimlessness to the exhibit. Also, regarding the entrance, my first reaction was that it was a work in progress. As a frequent visitor I can’t help but feel that the AIC has lost its grandeur.
Aimlessness was definitely the word I was looking for. The exhibit could have been so much more. I wonder if AIC’s “lost grandeur” also impacted my feelings toward it? Thanks you for reading!
Dear Rachel, thank you for the photo and text - many things that I did not know about Architect Bruce Goff - I had a chance to see his Ford House of 1947 in Aurora and met with the owner at the time who was a professor at one of the Illinois Colleges.
That typeface for his name made me think of Def Leppard album covers. The show was kind of like the MCA's David Bowie Is extravaganza, minus the totalitarian audio cues but with cooler tchotchkes.
Dear Rachel,
As an art blogger who occasionally gets into architecture, I appreciate your architectural reviews. I have not seen the Bruce Goff exhibition yet, but hope to get there -- will reread this review before I go. Many people agree that there's an unwelcoming feeling coming from the Art Institute today, and I personally don't understand the new layout of paintings. The volunteers at the help desk should return; they were a big help. The Art Institute took out all its monumental sculpture in the Roger McCormick Gallery, a big loss. We have a petition to return the Lorado Taft statue back to display in the museum. Would you consider signing it?https://www.change.org/p/return-lorado-taft-s-the-solitude-of-the-soul-for-display-at-the-art-institute-of-chicago
Signed! And thank you!
Thank you so much !
Rachel, I agree with your review, having had much the same reaction after taking it in. I left feeling unsatisfied thinking that there was an aimlessness to the exhibit. Also, regarding the entrance, my first reaction was that it was a work in progress. As a frequent visitor I can’t help but feel that the AIC has lost its grandeur.
Aimlessness was definitely the word I was looking for. The exhibit could have been so much more. I wonder if AIC’s “lost grandeur” also impacted my feelings toward it? Thanks you for reading!
Dear Rachel, thank you for the photo and text - many things that I did not know about Architect Bruce Goff - I had a chance to see his Ford House of 1947 in Aurora and met with the owner at the time who was a professor at one of the Illinois Colleges.
That typeface for his name made me think of Def Leppard album covers. The show was kind of like the MCA's David Bowie Is extravaganza, minus the totalitarian audio cues but with cooler tchotchkes.