I’m an Art Snob…
It’s Tuesday again, which means that it is free admission day at the Museum of Contemporary Art! Now, I should start this by saying that I’m not a really chic art person. Like, one time, I was at the Louvre (you know…in PARIS…the most famous and largest museum in the world). Yeah. Well, my friend Cheryl and I jogged through the entire museum in one hour, took a picture of the Mona Lisa, and then took the train to Euro-Disney where we spent the next 6 hours riding Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.
That having been said, the MCA is pretty awesome. It’s small-ish, so you don’t have to feel like you have to spend the whole day there, and the art is pretty crazy, so you don’t have to feel like you have to appreciate it too much.
The Rudolph Stingel exhibit is up right now, and one of his “pieces” is a giant white room with an orange carpet. Awesome. There was some mention of how the point of it was that the viewers are creating the art, or something. I don’t know. It was a giant orange carpet. However, his enormous photo-realistic black and white oil self-portraits are gorgeous and amazing. So, really, it is definitely worth a visit. I even liked his Styrofoam work. So, there you go.
If you do go, visit the second floor video display. They are showing a video of a group of deaf students singing opera music, and it’s really bizarre and amazing to watch.
MCA Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave
Chicago, IL 60611
Tuesday Admission: FREE!!
Tuesday Hours: 10am - 8pm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, MCA, Rudolph Stingel, Modern Art
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