GRAM has been lovely.

so i was delighted to find out that my job get's me into the Grand Rapids Art Museum for free! i new there were certain employee reciprocities, but you never really know who's going to let you in, in the end. but they let me have myself and a guest, and we had grand time. (forgive the pun)

i was pretty impressed by what they had up. the last time i had gone, they were between temporary exhibits, and it seemed like the only contemporary art there was a big piece in the lobby by Ellsworth Kelly, and i'm not the biggest fan of his. but their current (main) exhibition was Frank Stella's Moby Dick work. my favorite was the giant print and it's accompanying wood/copper plate:





























(Fountain, 1992)

it's massive. i wouldn't even know how to start planning a monster like this! it took Stella 15 years to complete. hats off to you, Frank.