Eva and Franco Mattes, from "My Generation," in the Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition "I Was Raised on the Internet."
Do you talk in an art museum? It's not a library. When art speaks to you, maybe you should speak back.
At work, we needed a summer outing. So we took off for the Museum of Contemporary Art, which plays jazz on Tuesdays near the Water Tower. What could be more Chicago? And just to say we were really working, we took in the exhibit "I Was Raised on the Internet," in which artists in various media make points about media.
We really were working, though. After a round of budget-tightening at work, we needed to rebuild. The magazine most likely will be producing fewer issues with a new art director, while I'm leading a website redesign. So we're sorting out new ideas and bouncing them off co-workers. As a result, I found myself talking through what I was seeing in the art gallery. If you've done brainstorming, you know how liberating that can be. Wild ideas didn't have to wait someone ordered the second round.
