At my dad's house in upstate New York this weekend, my dad and I pulled the last of my boxes out of his garage. A lot of my stuff was ruined from the water damage (I will forever mourn my giant box of shoes that I'd been collecting since 1999; RIP, orange lace ballet flats and neon pink stiletto heels!), but the important stuff was safe: my three favorite mugs (well, I soaked them in boiling hot soapy water, then ran them through the dishwasher on "sanitize" twice, then washed them by hand again), my Swans Crossing video tapes from 1992, and my copy of Black Wine
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While I was there, he and my stepmom and my baby sister and I piled into the car to drive north on NY-22 for a million miles (okay, like, 20) to the Circle Museum outside Austerlitz. I'd seen it the last time I was driving north on 22 (to visit the![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
trifles family!), and have wanted to stop in there ever since. There's not a lot of information about it on the internet. There is not even an address! But it exists. It was closed up tight when we got there, but mostly it's a bunch of sculptures that are outside, so we walked around and looked at the sculptures anyway.
I have to admit... I was hoping for what I kept calling "a real museum." Like MOMA, but only art featuring circles. (So... no Mondrian, I guess!) It was, instead, just some guy's art installation -- sculptures with curved lines. Not every sculpture even had a circle! Not sure how to feel about that, you guys.
Here are some pictures anyway. Click on them to go to the Flickr page. I have "original size" turned on, if you're interested in the huge versions.
...ultimately, I don't think I'd recommend driving out that way to see the Circle Museum (especially since there are no posted hours or anything!!) unless you are big into upstate New York stuff, like trees and grass and mountains and winding roads and tiny roadside diners. Though, honestly, I love tiny roadside diners, but the ones in this area of NY seem to be particularly shitty. Or you can stop there on your way to Steepletop! I wanted to go, being a person who thinks Edna St Vincent Millay was pretty awesome, but it closes for "the season" in October, and doesn't open again until April or May. Sigh.
.While I was there, he and my stepmom and my baby sister and I piled into the car to drive north on NY-22 for a million miles (okay, like, 20) to the Circle Museum outside Austerlitz. I'd seen it the last time I was driving north on 22 (to visit the
trifles family!), and have wanted to stop in there ever since. There's not a lot of information about it on the internet. There is not even an address! But it exists. It was closed up tight when we got there, but mostly it's a bunch of sculptures that are outside, so we walked around and looked at the sculptures anyway.I have to admit... I was hoping for what I kept calling "a real museum." Like MOMA, but only art featuring circles. (So... no Mondrian, I guess!) It was, instead, just some guy's art installation -- sculptures with curved lines. Not every sculpture even had a circle! Not sure how to feel about that, you guys.
Here are some pictures anyway. Click on them to go to the Flickr page. I have "original size" turned on, if you're interested in the huge versions.
...ultimately, I don't think I'd recommend driving out that way to see the Circle Museum (especially since there are no posted hours or anything!!) unless you are big into upstate New York stuff, like trees and grass and mountains and winding roads and tiny roadside diners. Though, honestly, I love tiny roadside diners, but the ones in this area of NY seem to be particularly shitty. Or you can stop there on your way to Steepletop! I wanted to go, being a person who thinks Edna St Vincent Millay was pretty awesome, but it closes for "the season" in October, and doesn't open again until April or May. Sigh.
