deCordova

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Today my wife and I went off to the deCordova museum up near Concord MA.


The place used to be the summer home of a glass merchant out of Boston. He wanted it to become an art museum after he died. I guess he wanted it to be the art he collected, but wasn’t that clear in the will. So, it is mostly modern art and not his.
It would have been a very nice summer home.


It is a museum that specializes in sculpture.


They have a lot of stairs. I’m not sure if it is part of the exhibit or not...


They did have a special exhibit indoors. It was a bit strange with lots of blue pipe.

At points there were little holes and you could hear things coming out of it.


It opened in the main area where it funnels in sound as well as some music.


I thought this one was very interesting as it is only held together with magnets.


This was also interesting as it is a model of the home that became this museum upside down with tea bags as the weights.


I also liked this floor where the wood “spilled” out onto the carpet.



There are some strange sculptures on the property.




We joined the tour of “select” parts of the collection.


I have to admit I didn’t like the tour. The guide said they had been doing it for 10 years, but seemed very unsure and hesitant about the pieces. And, we were constantly asked the question “what does this make YOU think of?”
I’d rather have a tour guide that tells me about the pieces and such and doesn’t try to make me talk about them.
But, that’s me.

And, some of the things are very nice.


And, some of them are very big.


This tree of eyes was very weird and hard to spot as a sculpture. So the tour was good for pointing it out.


The piece with the dead knights scattered around was a bit strange.


My wife was interested in this one as she didn’t know Lichtenstein had done any sculptures. He didn’t. After he died they made this one based on one of his sketches.


I liked this one in the trees.


This one was interesting because it credited the mechanical engineer that helped build it.


And, of course I liked the one that you could play.



We took one last walk around the property and then headed home.


On the trip home sites as strange as any in the museum were seen.

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[cissa.livejournal.com]

Wow- they've had a lot of turnover in the 15 years since we've been there! I think the playable one is the only one that's survived.

We used to go there pretty often when K was in a group home that was semi-close, and they were not at that point charging fees to see the outdoor stuff.

I rather liked the air-sharks made of old appliance cladding and hanging from trees.