Art to Go: Museum Caper

Liz and Maddy like Buddha. I like quarters to buy soda later.

Spent a lot of time at the museum this week. A fella named Jason, whom I had a class with last semester, is one of the red-shirts there. I think he’s a history or religious major or something, because he knew everything about the stuff in the West Gallery, a.k.a. the Creepy Religious Room. He was a lot of help, and gave me all kinds of information on the Marten De Vos panels, pointing out all of the little details that I otherwise probably wouldn’t have picked out. He told me a good story about Saint Catherine that I’m going to include in my tour script. She was sentenced to death on the torture wheel after converting the Roman Emperor’s wife to Christianity. However, Catherine was so damn holy that the wheel itself broke, so they chopped her head off with a sword instead. Apparently she wasn’t too good for that.

Also, we pitched to the museum folks. It went really well, I think, and gave us a much better idea of what they’d like to see on the website. I was happy to hear them say that they’d like to steer away from the production aspect and see more focus on the interesting stories behind the pieces. Like that kid that got painted over. And why is Mao’s face blue :) I don't like messing around with secret codes and trying to figure out what someone's really trying to tell me, so their bluntness about the dislikes was much appreciated. Saw both Carl and Tania the next day, and they told us that we pitched like total champs.