Summer ended here early last week with a bang, not with a whimper, and it's been pouring down ever since. So I took the opportunity to take a stroll down to our new art museum and spend a few hours indoors with the masters. I mainly went because they have a Pop Art exhibit on right now, but it was also an opportunity to see the rest of the collection. The museum opened a few months ago, but I hadn't gotten around to visiting it, but it was definitely worth a visit.

Although the museum looks a bit like a large red LEGO brick from the outside it's more reminiscent of New York's Guggenheim Museum on the inside. The regular collection is pretty interesting and especially some of the large photographs in the modern art section were pretty remarkable. They also have a lot of Danish art from the 17th century and some of it is really good. But it is a little odd looking at these old painting in such modern surroundings. Also, the lightning is a bit strong several places, which gives excessive light reflection on the canvases. But generally I think it is an interesting collection, which covers both the modern and old, the Danish and the international rather well.

The actual Pop Art exhibit was a little on the small side and I had seen a lot of the works before. But it was interesting seeing Tom Wesselmann's Great American Nude No. 98, because in reproductions it usually looks like a painting and not an installation. There was a large and beautiful Rauschenberg and one of Johns' flag paintings, which is stunning in real life. But I think the piece I liked the best was a piece by Roy Lichtenstein called Cloud and Sea. It wasn't a regular painting, but instead it was painted on a metal surface, which the surface extremely shiny. It looked truly remarkable. There was some other fun stuff as well, but I think it would have been nice with a few more works (David Hockney was missing for some reason).

Besides being artsy I've also spent some time playing 80s games and WEBoggle. I definitely better at the latter, but not nearly good enough.