Beautiful day

We took advantage today of the "Target First Saturday" at the Nasher Sculpture Garden. It gives free admission from 10a-2p and has various activities for kids to do. Jim was hesitant about going simply because he couldn't imagine the kids (especially Alex) being able to keep their hands off the art. My argument was that if you don't take your children to things like museums, concerts, etc., they will never learn how to act in those situations. That was the theory behind us always taking our kids to "real" restaurants (not fancy ones, but definitely more than McDonalds or Purple Cow), and now they are usually pretty darn good about eating out in public.

Anyway, we couldn't have asked for better weather for enjoying beautiful art in the beautiful setting. High was in the low 70s with a gorgeous blue sky overhead. And with a sit down talk with the kids before leaving the house (followed by a reminder on the sidewalk before entering), they were better than we could have ever hoped for. I highly recommend taking advantage of this opportunity - once we bypassed the $10 parking for the meter on the street we had an amazing couple of hours for about 50 cents.


My little artist next to the one sculpture she had time to sketch in her sketch pad - Spoon Woman by Alberto Giacometti ("Oh Mom, it's because she looks like a spoon, right?").


Alex checking out one of the coolest pieces in the museum.


This is what he was showing me. Those are life-sized figures walking up the pole (Walking to the Sky by Jonathan Borofsky).


A shot looking out across the garden. Hopefully you can see what wonderful weather it was.



Another view of the garden.



One of my favorites (Night by Aristide Maillol). Just beautifully done.


Grace counting the headless men (Bronze crowd by Magdalena Abakanowicz). There are 36 of them.


Large Horse by Raymond Duchamp-Villon looked more like a large armadillo to Grace.


Target had a great little scavenger hunt for the kids to do with photos of details of four pieces. You had to find the pieces and write down the title and artist for each. When you turn your finished page in you got a little Target dog. Both kids have their dog tucked in closely to them right now in bed.


My final shot of Walking to the Sky as we are about to get into the car and head home.

Great day!