Notes on the road

[sienamystic]

Well, back from the road, but about to head out again in a few days. Here are some photos from Syracuse, NY - mostly of the Everson Museum and works therein.


I.M. Pei's first museum building. Lots of concrete. A really impressive interior, an exterior I think could use a little softening.



Not on the building itself, just in the landscaping around it. As somebody who has to deal with her museum's outdoor sculptures, I wince to see sculpture out on cement like this, because, as I was witness to, they're hella-tempting to skateboarders.



The Everson is known for it's ceramics collection. They have a great study center:



And an encyclopedic collection:








Grueby ceramics









Did I mention how cool I found the interior of the museum? Because I really found it cool.




Plus I was fed at an incredible restaurant named Sparky Town (amazing lentil soup and mushroom-cheese quiche, plus brownies to die for) and wandered around the Armory Square area and had a coffee at a place called Freedom of Espresso. All in all, a very nice trip.

Comments

[oxymoron67.livejournal.com]

The interior is neat.

So, I need to go to Syracuse.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

I am not generally a fan of the sort of brutalist concrete thing, but the interior is just really enticing in an unexpected way. It feels a little like an elegant cave :g:

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

Those horses are gorgeous.

The porcupine will give me nightmares.

The exterior sculptures ....? , Look made for climbing on, imo.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

Alas, a lot of sculpture is so tempting to climb. But it causes a lot of damage and it's so expensive to fix. And if you don't fix it, it looks like crap really quickly, due to rust and scratched paint and things deteriorating.

Sometimes, when I'm despairing of the damage the students and drunk football fans inflict, I'll remember seeing the skateboarder blithely scraping his skateboard along several of the works out there, and think that at least we had the option to place everything on grass.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

I like the tiles - Delft fire tiles, I presume? And I like the oriental horses.