Möbius Ship by Tim Hawkinson has got to be one of my favorite pieces of art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Made of wood, plastic, Plexiglas, rope, staples, string, and twist ties, it’s very intricate and incredibly well-detailed.
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November 9, 2009
Möbius Ship by Tim Hawkinson
September 26, 2009
Oregon Trail Paintings by Violet Aveline
According to the Saatchi Gallery, Violet Aveline is “a biligual trapese artist soaring to greater heights on reading rainbows and clams that have teeth on tongues. Mercurial methodological melodies playing stuck in your head.”
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September 19, 2009
September 14, 2009
You Know You’re from Cincinnati If…
I recently stumbled onto a Facebook group called You Know You’re from Cincinnati If…. I didn’t join [it wouldn't be right], but I’m copying the group’s fun quiz for all Cincinnati readers, both natives and transplants, along with my answers. I’ve answered the questions off the top of my head, so you can see what one person has learned in three years.
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July 8, 2009
Coca Cola Plant in Indianapolis
This former Coca Cola Plant is on Massachusetts Avenue, just a few blocks past its hoppin’ stretch. The buildings are now used to house school buses for Indianapolis Public Schools and, once IPS gets a new bus facility, these structures will be redeveloped. Hopefully, all the Art Deco goodness will remain intact.
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June 16, 2009
Ann Dancing by Julian Opie
If you haven’t been to Indianapolis in recent years, it might surprise you that the city has been developing an ambitious public art program — a combination of temporary and permanent pieces by local, regional, and international artists. Downtown’s silly slogan of “amazingly always new” actually rings true when I see a new public art project on practically every visit.
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May 28, 2009
Oh, the Humanity!
Dirty, densely populated, with inadequate resources, some displays of shocking behavior, and plenty of excitement — sounds like a city, doesn’t it? The Indianapolis 500 really is a daylong pop-up city, and the guesstimated attendance of half a million makes it a much, much larger one than Cincinnati.
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January 16, 2009
Elsewhere
It’s 10 O’Clock, Do You Know Who Your City Is?: Chicago Carless takes on the visitor web sites for Chicago and Cincinnati and is not impressed by either.
Cincinnati Farm Program Could Be in Place by Spring: wow, people, this is amazing progress…
Mexico Tells Citizens to Swallow Their Gum: great advice from Ricardo Jaral, Mexico City’s “general in the war on discarded chewing gum.”
A New Name for Our Premier Waterway: Erik Baar wants to rename the East River the “Gotham Strait.”
Kevin James Named His Daughter Shea, As in Stadium: the guy from King of Queens named his daughter after the Mets’ Shea Stadium!
Go Behind the Scenes with Katelynn from ‘The Real World: Brooklyn’: “I think the communities band together because they are so accustomed to being the underdog, living on the fringes of society. They have created this support system, which was also tough to break into at first. Sort of like the mafia.”
Next Public Art Will Be Blowing in the Wind: the public art program in Indy is on a roll, with kinetic sculptures by George Rickey to follow the current Chakaia Booker exhibit.
December 24, 2008
Mass Transit by Chakaia Booker
Mass Transit is a nine-part, temporary installation by Chakaia Booker in downtown Indianapolis. The project was sponsored by Public Art Indianapolis, a recently launched initiative of the Arts Council of Indianapolis [hear that, Cincinnati?].
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November 20, 2008
You Are Beautiful, Indianapolis
You Are Beautiful, spotted just off Virginia Ave. in Fountain Square, Indianapolis.
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