The Broad.

photographs of locals - part of an exhibit called The Gift. each photo will be rotated out weekly or so.
I, too, participated. they ask for a straight face - no smiling. It took all I had not to laugh hard. when 
the exhibit ends, random photographs will be sent to participants, no one receiving their 
own, which I think is really cool.





I was feeling matronly and then for whatever reason, decided maybe
I was ok.



A few weeks ago, the Eli and Edythe Broad Contemporary Art Museum

 opened less than a mile from me.  Opening day was unseasonably

warm, so I threw just a scarf around my neck, donned my headphones,

and walked down to campus.  Director, Michael Rush expects our

Broad to be a "major player in the international art world", adding that

it could be anywhere in the world, and it happens to be in East Lansing.

A highlight for me was a collection of pieces, including 
a few by Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol, that is part of a larger

exhibit called, In Search of Time, showcasing our impossible

urge to express time. My favorite was a large boat-shaped

sculpture made from three tons of Vietnamese sea salt bound with

water.  "The sculpture is intended to dematerialize while it is on view.

As the water evaporates, the salt begins to crumble and dissolve,

its disappearing form symbolizing the way that events in history may

slip away from memory or exist only as fragmented forms in our minds.

As Nguyen observes, 'It’s very exciting to me that the salt is

melting during the exhibition; this makes the work continuous

and perhaps never truly finished. The landscape is slowly

transforming all the time.”