I was blown away by the Museum of Glass. I expected wall-to-wall Chihuly's, and not being a huge Chihuly fan - had limited expectations.
It was one of the best $10 days I've ever had. You can watch the visiting glass blowers in action for as long as you can stand the heat.
But the real joy is in the galleries. Here, art is not necessarily relegated to glass-only exhibitions.
The Joyce J. Scott exhibition is a must-see. She takes glass, beads, lithographs, and textiles and rams head-on into the various dimensions of racism, oppression, and discrimination that pervade our society. She tells the history of a people who have been (and continue to be) marginalized and silenced. The ugliness of brute power engages in a dialectical dance with pure beauty.
And oh, yeah - there are some pretty cool installation pieces in the main gallery.
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