Opening Day at the Chicago Art Institute’s Modern Wing: Ground floor lobby; second floor café
My review of the new Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago will be published on the “Leisure & Arts” page of tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal. I’ll post the link here on CultureGrrl when it’s up, probably late tonight.
I had a somewhat different perspective from those journalists who attended only the rainy-day press preview: I stuck around for the brilliantly sunny (and very crowded) opening day, which gave me a more complete sense of how Renzo Piano‘s light sensors and his elaborate rooftop contraption for capturing, filtering and transmitting natural light work under different conditions.
Of course, there’s lot more I wanted to say than I could possibly squeeze into my allotted 1,250 words. That’s what blogs are for.
Do I sense an irreverent photo essay coming on?