We got there and right where I parked, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival people were having a rally, a hail Mary attempt to raise enough money to have Free Will this year.
Em wanted to go chant with them not long after we got into the museum, and I told her she could as long as she didn't wander far from where they were chanting. Alas, they were already breaking up when she got back to them and it just ruined her disposition toward the trip from there on out.
We were thwarted on Monet, but the new installation, Ferment, made up for it. It's like a big, stainless steel tree. 56 feet tall, if memory serves, and so recently installed that the sod where the installation tore up the lawn was still fresh and fenced off to thwart destructive foot traffic.
There was a movie showing in the Bloch addition, and we went in to watch that. Mo was interested. Em wasn't having it, but that was disappointment about the Shakespeare thing. There was a warning at the door about an explicit sex scene near the end, but it was a small warning and it was an open exhibit.
RMB City focuses on two people's virtual interactions in the online game Second Life and eventually the interactions between the virtual characters absent their masters.
Just so you know, if you have kids you're taking to the Nelson, that warning is serious. You can't un-ring the bell, and while it doesn't amount to a realistic sex scene, it amounts to a realistic cybersex scene, and that may be worse in several ways. At least if your fourteen and fifteen year old daughters are sitting there.
Ferment was cool, though. It's tree-like, right? Well, there were birds landing on it, and I really hope some of them will build nests in it.
In retrospect, even Em had to admit it was a cool sculpture.
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