Glenstone Museum (11/15/2019)

Friday, November 15, 2019
At last, we were able to schedule a weekend with the grandsons! We drove down early on Friday in order to see the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, MD, before picking up the boys. We have Stuart & Cher T to thank for the inspiration to see the museum!
Glenstone Museum requires advanced reservation of timed tickets, the only exception being riders of local transportation. We arrived at a shopping center to have lunch, then boarded the Route 301 bus to Glenstone Museum. Upon arrival, an employee boarded the bus to give a card to each person going to the museum. And so we entered the museum, where admission is free.

Glenstone Museum Arrival Hall, from the rear

There was a seven-minute walk to the Pavilions.

Along the way we spotted Split-Rocker (2000, by Jeff Koons,
of which there are several incarnations, is a floral sculpture that
resembles two halves of heads of two different children's rocking horses)

Compression Line (1968/2016, by Michael Heizer)

The Water Court of the Pavilions (2013-2018, by Thomas Phifer)

No photos were allowed in the Pavilions, with eleven galleries/rooms displaying works from artists such as Andy Warhol and Yayoi Kusama. One room was open to the sky and another showed a video installation.

The Pavilions may have been inspired by the Ryoan-ji Temple
in Kyoto, Japan,where you cannot see all 15 at one time

Horse and Rider (2014, by Charles Ray), a self-portrait

A bridge of 43 tons?

The Gallery (2006, by Charles Gwathmey)

Apparently the home of the co-founders of Glenstone Museum,
Mitch and Emily Rales, and Untitled (2005, by Ellsworth Kelly) (KSS)

Sylvester (2001, by Richard Serra), a torqued spiral
into which you could walk

The Patio offers light refreshments and light lunch,
while a nearby Café offers seasonal lunch fare

Woodland Trail

A video of FOREST (for a thousand years…) (2012, by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller):

Reinforced stream

One of three Clay Houses (2007, by
Andy Goldsworthy); the center one had interior walls
covered with local clay that is crackling, titled House

Tamiko with a crackling clay Boulder (KSS)

A peek at the Boulder through the door

The third Clay House had Holes in the back wall

Woodland Trails pond

Woodland Trails Boardwalk

Off the Boardwalk: Two Partially Buried Sinks (1986-1987,
by Robert Gober); Gober had a whole room installation in the Pavilions,
Untitled (1992) but called called Rain Forest, with walls painted like a
forest and six sinks with running water, as well as piles of newspaper

Contour 290 (2004, by Richard Serra)

Smug (1973, 2005, by Tony Smith)

Hiking up to Split-Rocker by Jeff Koons

The dinosaur-head side of the Split-Rocker

The split in Split-Rocker (KSS)

The horse-head side of the Split-Rocker

Onward to pick up Pete and Dylan and take them back to Granite Farms Estates.