art museum

Uncle Brad and I went to an art museum. I love making art, but I'm not the person to turn to when it comes to art appreciation. I think it's safe to say you shouldn't turn to Uncle Brad either.

I took an arts and humanities course spring 2012 at IU. The course was titled "Magic, Science and Art in Africa." I hated this class more than you could ever imagine but I did get really good at making stuff up to explain a "work of art." This did not help me at this museum.

Uncle Brad and I spent the extra few bucks on the audio tour guide. This was cool in itself. We each received a Samsung Galaxy phone to hang around our neck with an earpiece attached. You could go through all of the art pieces and read about the specific work and even more about the artist. Or, you could walk up to something and the motion detecting phone would give you a description.

The first work we walk up to was made of hangers, Christmas lights, random plastic items, etc. The phone turns on, "This is the artist's rendition of the people of Seoul..."

Uh, what?

We walk up to a bunch of circles and squares stacked on top of each other. Again, the phone starts up, "This is the artist's interpretation of the human body in its simplest form."

Whatever you say, audio guide.

I saw a screen with a woman standing still in the middle of a crowded street. I wanted to head that way to hear what my guide had to say, but it was too crowded for me. I am so glad, too, or I never would have stumbled upon the best piece in the gallery.

It appeared to be just a large scale sculpture of a vase of flowers. My audio guide begins, "This sculpture is the artist's depiction of his sex life with his Italian porn star wife..."

....... Excuse me?

Of course, I dragged Uncle Brad over share what I had found. His reaction was priceless. We even stood back and watched other people's reactions for a while.

THANK GOD we had the audio tour guide, that's all I have to say.