Exploring Art: Water
October 10th, 2007The Pulitzer has begun another experiment in the ways visitors can experience our building and installations. Beginning last Saturday, and continuing every Saturday through the end of the “Water” exhibition, we are offering a new kind of tour. Visitors, accompanied by 2 docents, explore the Pulitzer developing their own impressions of what they see. We then discuss what was found to be easy to relate to and what was not so easy. Connections between works, such as symbolism, are looked for as well as the impact of juxtaposing certain pieces with others. The entire group then travels to the Saint Louis Art Museum where works are selected and viewed to further the interests brought out at the Pulitzer. One of the most exciting aspects of this touring style is that every tour is different; not being scripted, but driven by the discussions that evolve from the group’s exploration.
We hope to continue this program with subsequent installations and to branch into other venues as well.
If this sounds like a way in which you and your friends or just you would like to spend a few hours on a Saturday afternoon, contact Courtney at chenson@pulitzerarts.org Tell her you want to explore art.
This is wonderful website, including your blog. I’ve just been exploring all the Sugimoto material. My ambition as an artist is to show my work in a Tadao Ando building someday. (http://dcrichardson.home.comcast.net/studio2.htm) I just added “Tadao Ando Complete Works” by Phillip Jodidio to my library and have been absorbed in it for the past week. Ando/Sugimoto/Serra and the water exhibition – an incredible experience,even online.
Here is a link to a blog post I’ve written on Ando and Sugimoto .
http://www.furnituresociety.org/blog/page/2
Thank you! I’m glad that you’ve enjoyed looking through our website and exploring our exhibitions online. I just finished reading your blog post on Ando and Sugimoto and found it really interesting — thanks for posting the link!
Thanks Rachel
I just read about your poetry project. John Yau and the Brooklyn Rail are favorites. We’ll have to get out to St. Louis sometime and see you all. It must be amazing to go to work in a Tadao Ando building.