FHE becomes FNO

Our FHE last week was transformed into a Family Night Out as we spent some time at the BYU Museum of Art together.  I've had friends rave about one of the current exhibits, "We Could Be Heroes: The Mythology of Monsters and Heroes in Contemporary Art."  I was told it was very kid-friendly, so we made a plan to pick Ben up from the business school and drive up to the MOA before dinnertime.

One of my favorite "Hero" pieces

I love this one too - 

"Civil War Re-Enactors, Virginia" by Phillip Toledano

The exhibit was, indeed, very cool.  I liked the way it interpreted "heroes" and "monsters" so broadly - depicted heroes ran the gamut from being straight out of a comic book to being ordinary citizens doing ordinary, albeit heroic, things.  The same was true for monsters - one of the pieces on display in the monster portion was a photograph titled "Dear Leader" by Jonathan Hobin.  This resonated with me, since I recently read a book about North Korea.  Of course, it also made me shudder.  (You can click on any this image if you're in the blog to see it bigger.)

Awesome quality picture from my phone...

The entire time we were touring the Heroes and Monsters exhibit, Cat was begging to go downstairs to the Andy Warhol exhibit.  I knew it wasn't because she's become an intense Andy Warhol enthusiast.  It was because she wanted to play in the Silver Clouds room again.  So after 10 minutes or so in the first exhibit and a quick 2-minute walk-through of Andy Warhol, we ended up spending about 25 minutes with the Silver Clouds.  It didn't bother me too much - if the kids are having a positive experience with art, I'll consider it a success.