Which Painting Should the Aliens See First?
July 4 2024
Picture: Art Institute of Chicago
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
For those readers who might be in Chicago later this month, the Art Institute of Chicago will be running a free gallery event asking those questions we've all been thinking of for some time now.
According to the museum's website:
Join museum educators Maura Flood and Atlas Babcock in the Modern Wing to find artworks that offer interesting answers to a list of unlikely, counterintuitive, and human-centered questions. Determine which artwork misses its grandma or knows karate. Decide which masterpiece the aliens should see first. This exploratory program has no right or wrong answers.
The event will take place on 19th July 2024.
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Which paintings would the readers of AHN suggest that Aliens should see first? Do get in touch with your answers. I would probably show them William Blake's A Vision of the Last Judgment which is at Petworth House.
