Guru of glass, Dale Chihuly was in Pittsburgh from Tuesday - Monday. Chilhuly was there for the opening celebration of the CHILHULY at PHIPPS: Gardens & Glass . Fantastic ! Spectacular! Breathtaking! These are all adjectives I used to describe the Chilhuly at the Huntington Museum of Art. These pieces are much larger. The exhibit makes you reach for all the obvious adjectives in an impossible attempt to describe its staggering beauty. It deserves them all.
Chilhuly dressed as always in mostly black with his black eye patch looking quiet handsome in a aging cherub sort of way. He moves like an angel, and as you watch him move you know that he has the ability to create as easily as he walks.
A dazzling visual experience surprises at every turn in the Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Schenley Park. Spaces were designed for to sculptures that rise up from the gardens in a frenzy of color. Yet, the glass fantasies are so perfectly integrated they seem to have flowered there forever. Sublime colored reeds, undulated shapes and monumental sunbursts soar to the skies. Glass balls of every size and shape and shade spill over a weather boat and into a pond. A surreal chandelier casts amber shafts of light on the foliage below and flamboyant frilly edged bowls float over a sunken garden.
If your summer travel plans have you any where near Pittsburgh, I recommend stopping to visit this exhibit.
We later went to hear TONY BENNETT at the Heinz Hall . The Heinz Hall has to be one of the most Beautiful Halls in the country. Tony Bennett is a legend. He spoke of singing with Lena Horn ( he opened with her in Heinz Hall 25+ years ago), and told stories of Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, and Duke Ellington. All in all it was a great evening for the Geritol Set and one under 30 Dent Student. hjh
6 comments:
hillary
tony benet must be 80 years old
whats up with you and these 80 year olds?
wvuguy07
Photos of Tony in Denver 2007 can be seen at:
http://www.DigPicPhoto.com/TonyBennett.htm
Thank you - someday I'll own a 'good' camera - - and even better - I'll remember to bring it!
hjh
hillary
just read tonny benet will be in charleston early next year. R U interested?
risgaebichon
if chiluhy is an aging cherub
then husted must be an aging addonis...NO?
Opps My Bad. I meant no disrepect in calling Mr. C a cherub - only that he looked like an angel during the glass making process - an angel working magic.
as for WayneH looking like an Addnois (is this a correct spelling) well.....he certainly has my VOTE!
HJH
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