C's Blog

Boy, I've been slammed at work this week! Ironically, this is fall break at Webster, too! It's a good thing that I didn't have class this week, or I wouldn't have been able to handle the volume of work.

So, I'm on fall break, but does that stop teachers from giving you homework?

Nope.

I have to turn in a paper on Monday. It's supposed to be a three page critical response on a piece of our choice from the new Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

So, I went last night for the first time, mainly because it's free on Thursdays and open until 7PM. It's a pretty cool museum, albeit small and I was only one of 5-6 spectators visiting last night.

The highlight of my evening was walking outside to discover a Serra sculpture that lies between the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and the Contemporary. (The Pulitzer is a private museum that's only open like 2 days a week.)

This sculpture is amazing! I wish I could write about it, but it belongs to the Pulitzer. It's about 15 feet tall and is a steel spiral that you can actually walk in and around. The size and shape of this structure is intimidating, but it creates it's own environment as you explore it. It's super cool!!!! : )

So, I'm not sure which piece I'm going to write about, yet. I used some birthday money from my parents to buy the companion catalog to the exhibit, so hopefully that will help give me some insight. The exhibit is called, 'A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad' and it's really neat, but also really hard to understand enough on my own to write a critical response about... We'll see, I guess...

I hope this entry finds you happy for FRIDAY! : )