{"id":2872,"date":"2011-06-12T23:48:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T04:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2011-06-21T16:23:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T21:23:46","slug":"free-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=2872","title":{"rendered":"Free Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m in a workshop at Columbia College which gets me right down on Michigan Avenue every weekday. Last Wednesday was free day at the Art Institute of Chicago and I had a great walk through there with my friend Thomas. Here is a video of what it was like.<\/a><\/p>\n

I was most struck by this Rodin bronze, Head of Pierre de Wissant.<\/em> The slack-jawed sorrow on his face surprised me when I passed by the case. But I’ll have to come back because I only got a quick look at a case full of these hilarious little bronze heads.<\/p>\n

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I haven’t been able to articulate for myself what it feels like to see in person the paintings I’ve seen reproduced<\/a> and riffed on<\/a> a thousand times before. The closest I can come is that it’s like meeting a celebrity\u2014the thrill of recognition but without any other familiarity.<\/p>\n

Nighthawks is beautiful in person,<\/a> but I didn’t get a long look at it. My sister\u00a0 used to have print of it hanging in her room when we lived on Billings Avenue. The 10-12 year old me was particularly fascinated with the 5\u00a2 PHILLIES sign and unsettled by the ghastly redhead and skeletal waiter. Seeing it in person I didn’t look at the ghouls at all, only at vibrant area to the right of them. I noticed two details: one of the samovars in empty, and the door has a\u00a0 single brush stroke for a push plate. Now I feel like all I have is a he’s way shorter than I thought he would be<\/em> story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m in a workshop at Columbia College which gets me right down on Michigan Avenue every weekday. Last Wednesday was free day at the Art Institute of Chicago and I had a great walk through there with my friend Thomas. Here is a video of what it was like. I was most struck by this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,6],"tags":[269,317,318,316],"class_list":["post-2872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists","category-photo-journal","tag-chicago","tag-heads","tag-rodin","tag-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2914,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions\/2914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}