Our goal today was the Wexner Museum at Ohio State University where there were three exhibits that we enjoyed with a docent. It was a very small tour of just three and the docent, looking at works by Louise Bourgeois and Hans Bellmer, a contemporary pair for some of their lives in Paris, Bourgeois was a dada sculptor, while Bellmer, a German, who spent much of his life in France, was an influential part of modern art. We also watch several "claymation" pieces done by Nathalie Djurberg, a Dutch artist who joins with Hans Berg, a composer, to produce very disturbing plasticene claymation videos. The pieces we saw were strident attacks on colonialism, fashion and the Roman Catholic Church. The third show by Pipilotti Rist, a Dutch video producer. This third piece was much more "enjoyable" from the sense of actual beauty than pieces by the other three artists.We got to the museum on the local no 2 COTA (Central Ohio Transit Authority) bus up High Street, on which there are no discounts for the over 65 crowd. Surprisingly, though, the busses on this route run every ten minutes during the day and are generally full.
We walked back from Ohio State to the Short North, lunch at the Happy Greek on spanakopita and falafel, and had our afternoon coffee at Mojoe Cafe.
Dinner was a rousing success. Even those who "don't know" or "don't enjoy" French food seemed totally satisfied with the dishes they ate. From halibut, grouper, and beef filet mignon, three of us ventured to sweetbreads (John included for the second time in a week), to two halibuts and a grouper, beef steak and all downed with a couple of bottles of lovely vouvray and then a Cotes Du Rhode gigondas it was a lovely meal. Terry's cake from Yum Yum Bakery was good for a sugarless cake, but not really to our taste. All in all, L'Antibes with its foie gras, lovely salads and a lobster starter for Ben was a fine place to celebrate a 60th. Congratulations to Terry.
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