conviction makes an admirable collector

Jill Reynolds

detail, Family Matter
Photo Credit: Creative Commons License, Flickr user unforth

Those vapid quotes on the walls of the Bellevue Art Museum got me trying to find something better.  

2005 Michael Kimmelman:  "Not all collectors are eccentrics, of course.  Most aren't, although the best often are: out of passion and private conviction, they collect what may not yet be ratified, as opposed to what fashion and the market already prize, in the belief that public taste should someday catch up.  The combination of public service and the strength of one's conviction is what defines an admirable collector."

Kimmelman, M. "The Accidental Masterpiece."  Penguin Books, NY. 2005. p100

Eyes for Glass, more thoughts

At Eyes For Glass this weekend, Jill Reynold's hilarious "Movers and Shakers" provoked this loud response from two ladies, "Ahhhhhhhg.  Blech."  As if they had become enveloped in a cloud of pollution and could not breathe.  Which leads to this:  If you are as concerned about the carbon emmissions of glassblowing as Seattle writer Knute Berger is, then offset your trip to the Bellevue Arts Museum by taking an alternate means of transportation.  Bicycle or walk, as my friend Andrew and I did on Sunday.  Here's directions from downtown Seattle to the Bellevue Arts Museum.  Bring rain gear (of course).

Begin at 1st Avenue
Ride East up Jackson Street through the International District.
Take a right onto 12th Avenue and cross the Jose P. Rizal bridge.
Take a left onto the bike trail at the light and go through Daejeon Park.
Continue on the bike/foot path as it parallels the start of the I-90 freeway.
Cross Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, at the crosswalk, into Sam Smith Park.
Bike/walk through the I-90 tunnel.
[This video is going West through the tunnel, you are going the other direction.]



Bike/walk a short distance downhill to the I-90 Trail and cross Lake Washington.
Once on Mercer Island, you will stay on the bike trail, it's not completely intuitive, but follow signs and other bikers to get to the second part of the I-90 bridge.
Once off the bridge, get off the bike trail and take a sharp left onto the road (SE 34th Street).
Take a right onto 108th Avenue SE. 
Ride/Walk 108th Avenue SE through the quiet neighborhoods (there isn't a bike lane here, you're on the road for now).
Take a left onto Bellevue Way SE. (you are now in Bellevue and very very close, so if you'd prefer a smaller street, any will do)
Cross Main Street.
Stay on Bellevue Way SE.
Gregg's Cycles is up this street on the left.
The Bellevue Arts Museum is up this street on the right.


Bellevue Art Museum by Steven Holl
Originally uploaded by FHKE

There is place to lock your bike up in the BAM parking garage.
Find the map at http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Pioneer-Square-to-Microsoft-via-I-90