From Franklinton to the recently expanded Columbus Museum of Art, our city is home to a burgeoning arts and cultural community.
So what better time, when planning your next “staycation” or weekend adventure with the family, to explore all that the downtown cultural scene has to offer?
We'll be talking about Franklinton next week. Today, we're sharing a piece written for Experience Columbus by Matthew Adair.Mr. Adair has put together an arts itinerary that’s well worth exploring. Here are some of the highlights:
If you haven’t checked out the Columbus Metropolitan Library’s renovated main branch, be sure to get there soon ... Today’s library is full of natural light (and plenty of books), offering a sweeping view of George Seurat’s famous painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of La Grande Jatte as interpreted through topiary plants.
When you visit the library, don't cheat yourself out of experiencing one of its iconic features:
When you visit, be sure to enter through the central doorway under the Andrew Carnegie inscription in the facade to get the full effect. Walk through the open atrium along the ground floor and you’ll find the gift shop on your left and cafe on your right ... Continue on through the rear doors and find yourself ... next to the Topiary Park.
After immersing yourself in George Seurat’s painting come to life in Topiary Park, head north to the Columbus Museum of Art:
Now make your way to the [museum] ... [Its] newest addition – at 50,000 square feet – is the most eye-catching piece of the building’s facade. Enter the building through the back, at the point where 1931 meets 2015, the original and [the] addition.
And the art museum isn’t just for looking, as Mr. Adair writes:
While the art at CMA is undeniably noteworthy, there are other things to do at our art museum in addition to perusing the galleries ... Check out Yoga@CMA ... for a chance to experience art and yoga in a new collaborative way! Another unique experience is the Jazz Masters Sessions. Seize the opportunity to experience this American-born music genre in a beautiful building constructed at the end of the Jazz Age in the 1920s.
Mr. Adair’s full piece is available here.
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