8/22/2009
The Detroit Institute of the Arts is big. Very big. Maybe too big. It certainly has a huge collection of art from almost every genre you can imagine. The emphasis seemed to be on modern and contemporary art, however. Laura and I love art museums, so it’s hard to go wrong for us. Our only problem was that it was hard to navigate. They gave us a little map, but it wasn’t much help. It didn’t tell you where to find specific pieces. We wandered around a lot, searching for things we wanted to see, but couldn’t find. I don’t think it was just us. We overheard several people trying to find the ancient Egyptian art and having no luck. Laura is a big Egypt fan, so it was a bit frustrating. Apparently, the pride of the museum is Vincent Van Gogh’s self-portrait. There are banners of it in every room in the museum. I felt like we went through every room in the museum, but I never found it. They were really pumping up this Van Gogh – you think it would be easier to find.
One slightly odd thing about this museum is that they make you wear these tiny metal tags “somewhere visible on your body.” These darn things kept falling off. Eventually I just stuck them in my pocket. I think they were trying to think of something more unique than those hospital wrist-band things a lot of museums make you wear. They should probably leave the artistic expression to the artists.
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