Timothy J. Duncan, exhibits manager at Loyola University Museum of Art, is actually pretty conflicted about:
New lakefront sculptures I commute to work on the lakefront bike path each morning. I enjoy the time regarding the trees, the lake and most especially the birds. I ignore the traffic on Lake Shore Drive, pretending the park and lake are an isolated natural sanctuary. But recently there are new objects to look at in the park, and not ones made by Mother Nature. Sculptures have started sprouting up along the bike path from Diversey to Addison. There are some that seem to blend in with the natural surroundings, with their round curves and their flowing lines. The Man Balancing on a Leaf is my favorite. But there is also the Big Rusty Box.
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Bizarre theories on the hidden meanings of The Shining flood the internet and range from compelling to crackpot; Rodney Ascher’s documentary Room 237 examines some of these wild ideas. Is The Shining a metaphor for the genocide of Native Americans? Perhaps it’s Kubrick’s confession of having helped NASA fake the moon landings? Or is it even crazier than that?
