The Pulitzer’s architecture comes up a lot on this blog.  It relates to pretty much everything we do -  art, programming, everything that’s planned here has to keep the very specific architecture of our building in mind.  It ranges from the logistics of a film night to the placement of art within an exhibition and everything in between.

Since it’s often on our minds here, it was nice to see a feature in the Post-Dispatch this weekend on the architecture of St. Louis as a whole.  I’ve always loved driving through the city looking at buildings, but it was interesting to learn more about the specific history of those buildings.  It also helped me connect the Pulitzer to the larger context of the history of St. Louis architecture.   Take a look - there’s also an interactive timeline (which includes the Pulitzer!).

David Bonetti wrote a great review of our Flavin exhibition in yesterday’s Post-Dispatch.  Click here.

Also - our exhibition print booklets (which complements our website catalogue) were literally JUST delivered to our doorstep.  So be sure to visit Wednesday to pick up your very own copy, and let us know what you think.

David Bonetti’s preview of Flavin came out this morning - and it’s a glowing (no pun intended) review. If you’re in STL, pick up a Post-Dispatch to see it in print - we’re the cover of the Get Out section!

The snow has already started, and I snuck into the galleries to take some photos. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge. You can see the glowing green of the hallway on the right:

And here’s one of the works on the mezzanine, with the snow in the background.

And speaking of snow, it’s supposed to stop by tomorrow morning. Which means the opening will still be on for tomorrow night. Stop by from 6-9! I have a feeling the lights at night and in the snow will be even more breathtaking.

With the close of Water fast approaching, thoughts have turned towards the opening of our next exhibition - Dan Flavin: Constructed Light - and what that means for our respective jobs here.  For me, that means lots of press, marketing, and new website sections.  We’re meeting with our design company soon to discuss concepts.  Something I’ve been drawn to lately is non-traditional advertising - not just the typical ads in the typical magazines.  But what exactly does it include?  I’m trying to learn more.  Any suggestions for good sites to research?  Interesting ad campaigns that have really struck you? I’ll keep you posted on anything I find too.

Our discussion with Thomas Crone and Amanda Doyle on KDHX is now online, for your listening pleasure.  Matthias, Chris from Cinema St. Louis, and I discussed last week’s film event and teased the film night coming up in November.   We talked about torrential thunderstorms, how our collaboration came about, what other institutions we find inspiring, learning how to play the water glasses, and Flipper.  Click here to listen, and then click on the stream from September 10th’s show.

I mentioned last week that Matthias and I took a trip to check out a much-admired arts institution, which is now my new favorite place. This institution is always on the cutting-edge with exciting programming, exhibitions, and technology. Any guesses?

Our visit to the Walker was a whirlwind — we arrive in Minneapolis around 8am that morning, had our first meeting at 9am, and met with someone new just about every hour until we left again for the airport at 4pm. We met with a lot of different departments — website, curatorial/directorial, performing arts, pr/marketing, adult programs, and had a great tour of the galleries. Everyone was so nice and accommodating, and gave us lots of great insight. I’m still processing everything I learned, but I’m sure tidbits will surface in blog posts every once in awhile. Now we just need to go back and meet with every department again, in addition to the ones we couldn’t meet with because we ran out of time. Oh yeah, and I also really want to check out the city some more and visit some other locations around town (especially here). I’m thinking the next trip needs to be more like a week, instead of just a day….

In unrelated news: I wanted to let you know that tonight Matthias and Cinema St. Louis’s Chris Clark will be on the radio program The Wire on KDHX. This program is hosted by Amanda Doyle and Thomas Crone and covers a wide range of St. Louis issues and topics. They’ll be talking about our upcoming film program. So tune to 88.1FM (or listen online) tonight at 7:30pm.

Now that we have all of the photography of the installed galleries, I’ve been updating the press page for the exhibition on our website. It’s here. There are a few images that will still need to be added (once we receive permission to reproduce the art works pictured) but here are the installation images we have available so far.

I’m hoping journalists will use our press page to find out information about our exhibition and activities. I’m posting press releases, images, related blog entries, list of works, etc. etc. There’s also a “press home page” that summarizes all the information in shorter paragraphs if you want to find out quickly what’s going on. Then, if you’re interested in finding out more, you can click on links that will take you to the full press page listing for that item.  We’re thinking of providing an RSS feed, especially to this page, so interested parties will be notified as soon as there’s any new news. Let me know if you’d be one of those interested parties, and I’ll keep you posted on the progress.

The launch of our new blog on Tuesday overshadowed some other news I wanted to mention. David Bonetti’s review of Water was in Sunday’s Post-Dispatch this past weekend. It gives a really nice sense of what the exhibition is like if you haven’t been able to see it in person yet. If you’d like to read it, click here.

In other news, over the next few days I’m going to be updating our Flickr account (something that’s waaaay overdue) so keep checking it out. If you want to be our Flickr friend and let us see your photos, well, that would be awfully nice. Send me a ‘lil Flickr message and I’d be happy to add you.

For your Friday afternoon reading pleasure: the West End Word had a really nice feature yesterday on the Water exhibition. Take a look here.

For my Friday afternoon reading, I’m going to look through this packet of information that was put together for our gallery assistants. They’ve been reading it to get some background on the different works in the show. All the gallery assistants are really knowledgeable about each of our exhibitions, and do a really good job of answering questions our visitors have about the art. I need to be sure that I can do the same….

As I’ve recently posted, Richard Serra has a retrospective on view right now at MoMA. Serra’s works have often figured in to our exhibitions at the Pulitzer, and weall pay close attention to new articles and interviews that come out. Today, Camran pointed out this interview that Charlie Rose recently did with Serra about the retrospective. It’s a two-parter, with the last half hour devoted to a conversation about the exhibition between Hal Foster and Michael Kimmelman. Here’s part one:

Here’s part two: