Saturday Morning at the IMA

The lobby of the museum was filled with giant rectangular stacks of climbing rope that had been woven, stacked and painted. Pretty cool effect. One of the stacks stands about fifteen feet tall.

Every once in a while as we tour the museum, we like to take a seat to gather our thoughts and discuss what we have just witnessed. Actually, we were talking about baseball cards, but that's not the point.

It's quite a museum we have here in our city, just blocks from our little house. We get to stare at pieces by Picasso, Chagall, Van Gogh, Matisse, Modigliani, Romare Bearden, William Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keefe, Calder, and a very famous painting by Edward Hopper. Plus, like the stacks of rope, they're always bringing in emerging and contemporary artists--like the lights above--that keep the museum moving with the art world. And it's free to visit every day, if you can believe that. It's quite a gift to our city. Come visit and we'll take you on a tour.