She blinded me with science!

ME has been doing all of the blogging up till now, and I figured that it was my turn. When I think of art and culture, I think of New York, DC, Paris, and London, not Roanoke, VA. Roanoke was a place on I-81 that we stopped to get gas on the way down to New Orleans in my college days.

Rewind a couple of weeks, I was reading one of the postings from one of the many mailing lists that I am on. The posting said that an artist list member had an art exhibition in Roanoke and invited us all down to visit. We hit the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke on Sunday. It stands as one of the few pieces of modern architecture in a sea of southern traditional buildings. As we walked in, we were greeted with a vast cavern reminiscent of an Apple store.


We came to see Alberto Gaitan's Remembrancer, but saw so much more. Mr Gaitan's explanation of the installation had five points of what the piece meant to him. The point that resonated with me was the point of how much information we leave behind to "trusted sources" and that fact was made especially pronounced with the setting of the dark room.


With the Remembrancer art installation, we also viewed both classical paintings and 20th century art. The science geek in me loved the Campbell's soup can that could be viewed through a glass orb about 3ft away from the wall. Truely cool. Walking away from the Taubman, a new facet of Roanoke has emerged for me.