Art in Millennium Park

Art in the fountain.
Over 1000 Chicagonians were photographed, videotaped really. Their heads in a vice. They look at the camera for a full minute, expressing whatever they like. When the minute is up, they purse their lips as if blowing a bubble... what we see at the fountain is a stream of water coming from their mouths... The work of French artist, Jaume Plensa.

















Below is "Cloud Gate" by Anish Kapoor..
What is loving called the "Bean"





To your left is part of the music center by Frank Gehry.
Beautiful and strangely futuristic. The concerts in the summer are free, and people gather on a lawn, over which is a web of steel holding a state of the art sound system. The back row, sounds like the front.




View of the skyline...

Into Thin Air

Birdseye View of Chitown




Views of Chicago from the top of the John Hancock building....
Below thre is beautiful Lake Michigan that goes on forever into the horizion...







View of Navy Pier from above

White City

Tonight I am looking at the city lights of Chicago reflected in the ocean they call Lake Michigan. After 3 days of exploring... the city and my inner being... I wish I had more time here. Chicago is beautiful, diverse, eclectic. I love that art is dispersed throughout the city in the most unusual places. At a bus stop. In the planters along Michigan Avenue. Art pops up at you from every nook and cranny. See the beautiful red dress waiting for the bus...

Chicago, once nick named the White City because its tall buildings were white plastered and shone in the sun. One even covered in white marble imported from Europe. After 10 or so years this particular structure had to be completely re-covered, as marble did not stand up well to the harsh Chicago climate. One would not want to be near a building that could shed large slabs of marble from 20 stories....

Next post... Into thin air...