Glass!

[fbhjr]

This morning my wife and I headed into Boston for the Chihuly glass exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts.
I’m glad we went early as there was a line to get in before the museum even opened.


It was pretty clear what folks had come to see as when they let you in they said “the glass exhibit is back and to your right” and everyone went that way.

There were some big glass installations.


Whole boat loads of colored glass.


My wife liked these ones a lot.


And, these ones too.


In no way to put down the exhibit, but quantity seemed to be a big goal.


A woman in front of us seemed quite convinced that we wanted out picture taken together. Not a bad idea.


There certainly were some strange things growing in the “forest” of glass.


One of the things was a ceiling of colored glass.


That is a very interesting idea. But, the actual implementation didn’t impress me as much as the exhibit thought I should.
It was a clear ceiling with lots of other glass objects resting on top of it.


“They make you walk under a clear shelf full of their rejects and call it a display?” I asked.
They did add a “Where’s Waldo” aspect to it by saying there were some clear cherubs hidden up there.

But, that just made it seem a bit more of a junk shelf to me.
I did agree that it was a bad room to be in during an earthquake.

I did find the room of chandeliers impressive.


Some of them were pretty wild.



I’m pretty sure this one was the “Crystal Entity” from Star Trek.

At least it didn’t attack my wife.


I spent a lot of time looking at how they were held together.


This one was more simple, but I still liked it.


Upstairs there were some bigger pieces that wouldn’t fit in the gallery.


The glass tree was very tall.


But, being an art museum, they had places to sit.


Then we looked through the rest of the museum. I saw a few things I thought were cool there too.



We went up to the hall of renaissance art. Something that neither of us had seen before, we had it to ourselves.


So, we took a lot of time looking at the paintings.


Since some of our Phoenix Folks have asked about costuming for our faire this summer, I took some photos of people from the right time frame.





Of course, there were benches.


My wife particularly liked this display.


In the Egyptian area is my favorite married couple.


They’ve been together 4500 year so far and are still smiling.


And, places to sit near the rotunda.


Over in the other place they had much fancier benches.


The old new wing appears to be having some sort of renovation. So, they put the falling guys in bags.


Or maybe they’re all in a big suicide pact.


In the middle east exhibit they had a very cool drinking cup.


But, you had to walk all over the middle east to see it.

(Based on the description of Eden in the Bible, I can see where it is on this map.)

And, they had roller seals, which are my favorites.


Of course they had the Egyptian action figure room too.

(That used to be in the wing with the guys in bags. Now it’s back over with the rest of the Egyptian stuff.)

Then, after seeing all that, we had lunch and drove home.
That was a pretty full morning.

Comments

[evrgreen.livejournal.com]

Wow - some VERY nice exhibits! I'm quite impressed by the glass exhibit. I spent alot of time in the Corning Glass museum and say some impressive ancient glass stuff, but I gotta admit that if we had 20 foot ceilings in the house I'd want one of those giant crystalline type chandeliers!

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

It's there for 2 1/2 more months, go see it!

[cissa.livejournal.com]

J claims- sometimes- that the fact that our marriage worked is because he did NOT take me to the Corning Glass Museum on our honeymoon. See, he'd done that with his 2 previous wives, and they divorced him.

I'm kinda scared to go, given that history! (Though in June we'll have our 30th anniversary... of course, he's going to be at his son's graduation from med school on the exact date. Oh, well!)