The dark long shadows are so beautiful on the sparkling white snow. I walked across the road to the Grant Park and spent a good part of the morning trying to capture the beautiful shapes. Above is one of my attempts.
Chicago is also famous for public art - Agora by Magdalena Abakanowicz is a sight to see and I trekked on the snow to take a few more photographs. By then, having been gloveless for a while for the sake of art, I had to escape from the cold! I spent the rest of the day at Spertus Museum. The museum building is unique and has won awards for its architecture. They had a special commisioned art Consider by Ranbir Kaleka. Its a very untraditional and hauntingly beautiful 'video painting' memorial on the holocaust. On their changing gallery Twisted Into Recognition Cliches of Jews and Others explores the ways images, expressions and objects depict stereotypes. Its a multimedia exhibit by various artists - on the whole very powerful. Now I have one more book to read - a memoir The Girl From Foreign by Sadia Shepard. It promises to be an interesting story about mingling of religions and cultures.
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