Mindy, Addison, and I enjoyed a delightful afternoon at the Nelson-Atkins Museum. Here are a few pictures of their trademark Shuttlecocks, designed by husband-and-wife artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, they were installed in 1994 and have been refurbished a few times since then. There are four, three on one side of the building and one on the opposite side. They are strategically placed across the museum grounds, suggesting a giant game of badminton where the neoclassical museum building acts as the net and the lawns as the playing field.
In honor of the theme of the weekend, a baseball picture.
Their highlight exhibition was called Survival of the Fittest. It was quite good, pictures of wildlife in conflict, survival and all, from the Rijksmuseum Twenthe and the National Museum of Wildlife Art.
