Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The midwest and its major cities (St. Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Toledo, Milwaukee, Detroit, and Indianapolis) was once the driver of American prosperity as the center of our manufacturing. All of these cities, with the exception of Chicago, are now much poorer places with few decent jobs and little future for their people. Many of those cities have incredible art museums; especially Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, and Toledo. Those are, as Howard noted, artifacts of that long-dead era of prosperity. Detroit's bankruptcy may well result in the loss and sale of their museum's collections to satisfy the city's creditors because the museum belongs to the city government. Fort Wayne's small, but very nice, art museum is not owned by the city, it is a private nonprofit organization, so that could never happen here if this city's government ever went bankrupt. I don't know how the museums in the other midwest cities are run or who legally owns their collections, but I would hate to see those incredible art collections dispersed. -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-437-8990 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 Become a fan on Facebook On 5/25/14 3:05 AM, "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote: >thanks Howard, I enjoyed the story and the photographs. >Frank D > >On 25 May, 2014, at 00:30, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote: > >> When we moved to Toledo in 1991, we discovered an art museum whose >>stature, like Detroit?s, is reflective of the city?s past importance and >>economic vigor rather than the present state of affairs. Toledo was also >>one of the national ?glass cities?, with Libbey Glass, >>Libbey-Owens-Ford, and Owens-Corning, many of whose founders and >>executives lived in Toledo and contributed heavily to the city?s civic >>and cultural endowments. One of the prominent recipients of these >>families? largess was the TMA, and being located in the ?Glass City? as >>well as having had the Libbey family as one of its founders, iit was >>only logical that the museum acquire a Glass Pavilion, which opened 8 >>years ago. Constructed principally of structural glass panels, it was >>designed by a pair of Japanese architects, SANAA, who won the >>prestigious Pritzker Prize in 2010. As when we were Seattleites and >>hardly ever went up the Space Needle, yesterday we made only our second >>visit to the Glass Pavilion, to take out-of-town friends there. This had >>two results, one that I am going to take a glass-blowing workshop this >>summer, and the other that I found a few beautiful glass sculptures to >>photograph. Dale Chihuly (also of Seattle) seems to have a strong >>presence in Toledo, and Italian artist Lino Tagliapietra had a brief >>stint as master-in-residence here earlier this year. Tagliapietra?s >>installation is bird-themed and was scheduled to coincide with the >>Biggest Week in American Birding, which takes place every May at the >>Black Swamp Bird Observatory in a preserve only a few miles away, where >>migratory birds following a major south-to-north flyway head out over >>Lake Erie bound for Canada. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/TMAGlass/ >> >> ?howard >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information