red field, blue field, white field

Been taking it easy the last few days, taking a mini-vacation before job hunting really begins. The last few years have been very looooong ones. I wish we had the resources to actually take a real vacation, but unfortunately, not so much.
Last night we visited the Albright-Knox, as it’s just a short trip over the border, and had a free Friday night deal going. We’re trying to get into the habit of doing free things again while we’re in-between things. I found it creatively refreshing and recharging to go see some “real” art. Just being in a gallery makes me feel happy and sophisticated. It was mildly disappointing though, as I was expecting more of a museum, and less of a gallery. I think a large part of my disappointment was due to the fact that the majority of the gallery space was showing a monochromatic “colour field” collection. There’s only so long you can stare at a red square. I think I might go back when they change the exhibits. It seems like it’s one of those places where what you see entirely depends on when you go, and a year from now they might have a lot of things I actually might enjoy.
I’m just used to the big Toronto museums and galleries where things don’t change for a very long time, and you can go see the same exhibits and peices you saw on field trips in the second grade. Not always stimulating, but definitely comforting.
I think I would have faired better if I had gone to go see the special Georgia O’Keefe exhibit, but it was not free, and I’m not very attracted to her stuff anyway. It would have been much more interesting, but I didn’t want to wimp out on my ‘doing free things’ attempt at the first try.
I think I’m going to have to take a closer look at Penelope’s cheap date ideas to get some new ideas.
This was not so hard when I was a teenager. Then everything was cheap or free. Then again, I lived in a slightly more cosmopolitan spot. It’s occasionally not so romantic living in the downtown of a (very, very) small city. It’s not big enough to constantly have exiting things happening, and its not small enough to have a close knit community where you can just hang out with your neighbours. I think it will get better when the summer finally hits, and the weather warms up a little. This has been the coldest spring in a long time.