Took the kids to the Yale University Art Gallery’s family day last weekend and had a great time. We did some arts and crafts, ate a few cookies and listened to some storytelling. It killed an afternoon for free. In a parents’ world, that’s more precious than gold.
Yale deserves a lot of credit for not walling off the art from the hordes of kids milling around under the influence of sugar and glue stick fumes. I could walk right up to a Josef Albers painting with my 6 and 2 year old and ask them if they agreed with his theory that colors were governed by an internal and deceptive logic.
I suspect the people who organized the event don’t have a lot of experience with the preschool set. Otherwise, they would have given the guard standing near the Sol Lewitt floor sculpture that to a child resembles a giant play puzzle a stun gun.