I took the above photo last week at the Denver Art Museum (The DAM), where I went to see Rembrandt: Painter as Printmaker, currently on display through January 9th. It is a very good exhibit, and I strongly recommend seeing it while it is here. The Denver Art Museum is the sole venue for the show (made possible no doubt due to blackmail photographs), and is a collaboration with the Bibliotheque national de France. After touring it, I walked around the museum to see what else was new, and ran across an exhibit featuring Julie Buffalohead, whose work delves into issues of American Indian culture. I took took the above "selfie" (I hate that word, by the way) in front of one of her works. I hate to be culturally insensitive, but I find her work pretty damn weird. Would you really put that painting over your sofa? The exhibit is sponsored by Vicki and Kent Logan, who are big donors to the contemporary art collection at the DAM. To me, most of the art work they donate to the museum is beyond strange, but that is, of course, just my opinion. However, one of my ambitions is to come up with a contemporary art piece so weird that they will buy it from me for big bucks. Everyone has to have a dream, after all.
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