This sculpture, from the City Park Sculpture Garden, is titled Mother and Child. There are three subjects, though. Your guess is probably better than mine. Mom, Patsy, and I met at City Park two weeks ago to go see the New Orleans Museum of Art and the City Park Sculpture Garden next door. Admission is free to Louisiana residents and they are both worth the visit. In addition to their spectacular permanent collection, NOMA is featuring an Ansel Adams Exhibition and another exhibit called Katrina Exposed. A few more pictures here if you're interested. We enjoyed all of it and then went to a nice Chinese Buffet at a place that David brought me to a few months ago. R & O's was the first choice but they were a tad crowded at 12:15 on a Sunday afternoon. Who'd have thunk? I'm going to try to go again next weekend and maybe throw some money in the donation box. City Park really needs it. The Adams Exhibition will only be here about three more weeks. Quote of the day from Mom, the flatterer, after seeing a few dozen Ansel Adams prints:
"Robbie, you could do this."
The blue ginger here is about to open. Terrible name for it. It's really not all that blue and it's not ginger, either.
I didn't know y'all got to see Katrina Exposed. Was it worth seeing? I read about that in the paper and would like to see it one day. I hope it's still there when I'm finished with my incarceration.
Yes, it's absolutely worth seeing. Big pictures next to small pictures, despair and hopelessness next to indomitable spirited people smiling in the face of it. It's quite moving.
I don't think I'd call it flattery. It was more like stating a fact.
I agree that Katrina Exposed was a wonderful experience. I'd see it again.
I would like to talk to the artist of Mother and Child. Is that the father she is standing on? Her own mother? She is holding the baby, but doesn't seem interested in it. A little strange, but provocative. I, too, would like to see the Ansel Adams exhibit. I love NOMA. I haven't been in years, though. That's cool that they are opening it up to the public. It used to be open to LA residents on Thurdays, courtesy of Shell Oil Co.
I think it's only here about 2-1/2 more weeks, Janine. I'm going to try to make the trip again Sunday if you'd like to come along. I doubt Patsy will.
Minneapolis also has a couple of pieces by the same sculptor. They are promnately displayed in downtown by the renovated Milwaukee train station. My kids always get an eye full and many questions follow as to why they don't have clothes on.