The WALTERS!?!?!?!

Ok guys I SWEAR I am not on their payroll, and no one is prompting me to do their promotion but I just discovered this:

http://www.thewalters.org/store/purchase5.aspx?p=790

RAJA YOGA in the Asian Art room.

At first the idea struck me as somewhat tacky, the idea of such a  lofty old world sort of museum and a bunch of new agey middle aged artsy women in spandex sweatin to the tunes of monks sighing….and then I realized: THIS IS DONE IN SMALL GRASSROOTS ARTSPACES EVERYWHERE.

This is an extremely awesome thing.  How unpretentious, and thats saying a lot for something subtitles the Royal Path.  Im really digging the new direction of the Walters, with experimental fashion shows and now YOGA!!?!  its kind of awesome, and definitely a powerful statement about trying to engage your audience, and pull people into an institution who may not have otherwise ventured into it.

Bravo!

 

Walters Art Museum-hold on to your hat!

Ok, its true I have an unequivocal bias for the Walters.  Ill admit it upfront, I lived two blocks away from them in Baltimore, one of their curators is writing my grad school recommendations, and I have the inside skinny on a few different things which makes me feel *special*.

But this:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=28307

WAS FANTASTIC news!

Ina  nutshell, they are going to literally, visually feature the Elven workshop that is their conservation department, so that it will be on view, a sort of live art workshop.  GENIUS.  This is so brilliant.  No I havent sat around doing research to see which other spaces are doing the same thing if any, but I *have* been travelign recently and I can tell you definitively that the Met, SFMOMA, MOMA, MOCA, and the BMA are not.  And that is Sufficient to ME.  And Ill tell you why, this is a truly contemporary step, a process bare, object-unecessary nod to expanded format performance.  Not only that but its COOL, and afterall thats what really counts.