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almost the last Wiscon post
Jun. 1st, 2011 12:16 pmTuesday morning:
Turns out the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art doesn't open until noon. I spent some time in an art gallery (Fanny Garver's), where I bought one of the silk scarves I'd been eyeing all weekend and a little flower-or-sea-anemone glass marble. Still only 11:20. I repaired to a bench and read a big chunk of Half World, worrisomely depleting my supply of travel reading.
Soooo I went back to A Room of One's Own for I think the third time this weekend? and got the GoH book and Huntress. The latter has a beautiful cover with an Asian girl and a sword, and I liked Ash more than I think a lot of people did, so I can't imagine I won't like this. (Probably it's that my expectations were set appropriately by the many reviews I've seen, but I thought Ash was worth reading even in the bare-retelling section and got very good in the second half.)
Then the museum! I found out they were having an exhibition of works to do with industry, technology, and working class people, which seemed to me like an extension of the many protest-supportive signs I saw all around the capitol, though I'm not sure when they planned it. I like to imagine enthusiastic curators pulling an all-nighter to get it up right away. I saw lots of lithographs and etchings, many of which had that glowing geometry that works so well in the Metropolis poster. Other highlights (ha): Eva Rubinstein with a young woman in drag on a train; Franck's "Hudson Fugue", a dark landscape covered with light curves evoking repetition and circadian rhythms; William Gropper's manically cheerful iron-bending hero "Joe Magarac". (But argh, the freaky font they used for the exhibition's main signs. No stroke except where there was (the u and n joins), and a seemingly random choice of serif or sans-serif by letter. It may in fact have been a Courier-Helvetica mashup. Or F2 segregants -- which trait is dominant, I wonder?)
And now airports. Madison airport remains uncivilized, and apparently Minneapolis airport has joined it in wanting money for wi-fi. Extremely inappropriate behavior which I am not about to reward. Half World very good, Huntress even better.
Turns out the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art doesn't open until noon. I spent some time in an art gallery (Fanny Garver's), where I bought one of the silk scarves I'd been eyeing all weekend and a little flower-or-sea-anemone glass marble. Still only 11:20. I repaired to a bench and read a big chunk of Half World, worrisomely depleting my supply of travel reading.
Soooo I went back to A Room of One's Own for I think the third time this weekend? and got the GoH book and Huntress. The latter has a beautiful cover with an Asian girl and a sword, and I liked Ash more than I think a lot of people did, so I can't imagine I won't like this. (Probably it's that my expectations were set appropriately by the many reviews I've seen, but I thought Ash was worth reading even in the bare-retelling section and got very good in the second half.)
Then the museum! I found out they were having an exhibition of works to do with industry, technology, and working class people, which seemed to me like an extension of the many protest-supportive signs I saw all around the capitol, though I'm not sure when they planned it. I like to imagine enthusiastic curators pulling an all-nighter to get it up right away. I saw lots of lithographs and etchings, many of which had that glowing geometry that works so well in the Metropolis poster. Other highlights (ha): Eva Rubinstein with a young woman in drag on a train; Franck's "Hudson Fugue", a dark landscape covered with light curves evoking repetition and circadian rhythms; William Gropper's manically cheerful iron-bending hero "Joe Magarac". (But argh, the freaky font they used for the exhibition's main signs. No stroke except where there was (the u and n joins), and a seemingly random choice of serif or sans-serif by letter. It may in fact have been a Courier-Helvetica mashup. Or F2 segregants -- which trait is dominant, I wonder?)
And now airports. Madison airport remains uncivilized, and apparently Minneapolis airport has joined it in wanting money for wi-fi. Extremely inappropriate behavior which I am not about to reward. Half World very good, Huntress even better.
