Forbidden

Back in The Lou. This was found in The Pulitzer Arts Foundation. Your guess is as good as mine. Some people - lots of people - have no choice, though. Think about our southern border, about people drifting in the Mediterranean.

Part of out Grand Centre arts and entertainment district had something of a block party yesterday, mostly for kids, including the Contemporary Art Museum, Pulitzer Foundation and Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Gallery. It was unbearably hot on the street, up to 101 F/ 38 C, but the venues had technologically altered climates. More to come.       

At The Pulitzer: Inside Joe

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Inside the curve of Richard Serra's Joe at the Pulitzer Foundation, enhanced by visual steroids of HDR. I have one more decent picture from the Pulitzer (of something different). However, if luck and light are with me, our Monday post will feature family hero U "R" Us belting it out in the Chicago Marathon today.

More From The Pulitzer

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Cieldequimper of Versailles Daily Photo asked to see a broader view of Joe, Richard Serra's sculpture at the Pulitzer Foundation in memory of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Her wish is our command. The work is 3 or 4 meters tall so you can't see the internal design. However, you can get a top view if you click here to go to the Foundation's web site, then click on Richard Serra.

Quick trip up to Chicago this afternoon to cheer on City Daily Photoblogger U "R" Us, one of the heirs to the St. Louis Daily Photo fortune. He's running the Chicago Marathon tomorrow morning. It's his first time but he's been training hard and he will do well. Send him your best wishes.

The Pulitzer Foundation

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The Pulitzer Foundation For the Arts is a small jewel, little known outside St. Louis. It opened in 2001 with support from the estate of the late Joseph Pulitzer and the continuing gifts of his wife, Emily. Pulitzer was the publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 34 years and, yes, that's the family that established the Pulitzer Prize.

The building is small for a museum but breathtaking, designed by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando. The Pulitzers had one of the greatest collections of modern art of the 20th Century, which has become the backbone of the Foundation. It is more focused on scholarship than display and is open to the public only two days a week. If you are an art lover and visit St. Louis, it's a don't-miss.

The Pulitzers were close friends of the contemporary sculptor Richard Serra. He created the sculpture Joe as a memorial. It sits in the Foundation's courtyard. The work is a tall, tilted spiral, winding inward and inward. The photo above shows only the entrance.

On another topic, Virginia has been pleading with me to post the photo of the bunny from the blessing of the animals, mentioned in Tuesday's post. So here it is.