Linda told me that as they were coming out of the parking lot, they weren't sure which direction to head in. Margaret pulled out her map, Linda started entering information into Google, and Chris snagged a passerby to ask directions - he turned out to work at the Center and walked them over to it while sharing additional information. Seemed to me a tidy little story of the different ways that we navigate.
The photography center is hosting a show of Linda McCartney's photos which include shots of many musicians from the 1960's music scene as well as photos of the McCartney family from the 1960s until her death in 1998.
More info here if you're interested: https://news.arizona.edu/story/linda-mccartney-retrospective-coming-center-creative-photography.
Collette said she enjoyed the photos of the 60's musicians "a walk down memory lane even tho it made me feel old".
Linda was intrigued with this wall of photos:
Next they headed off to the UA Museum of Art. The featured exhibit was "Restored: The Return of Woman-Ochre" which was a room devoted to the story of a brazen mid-day theft of a William De Kooning painting in 1985. "The painting was cut out of its frame in a UAMA gallery by a man and a woman who followed a museum staff member inside at approximately 9 a.m. on Nov. 29, 1985. The woman distracted the security guard while the man went upstairs and cut “Woman-Ochre” from its frame with a sharp blade. The two hurried out of the museum and never returned. The heist took no more than 15 minutes" [https://artmuseum.arizona.edu/willem-de-koonings-woman-ochre-returns-ua-museum-art ]
Although the FBI investigated for years, the painting was never found and the thieves were not identified. Then in 2017, the museum got a call from an antiques dealer saying that he thought he had the painting - found among other items in an estate sale. It turned out that the painting had been in the home of a reclusive couple living in rural New Mexico. Still unclear whether they were the thieves or they bought it, with or without knowledge of its provenance. It's now been restored and has been displayed since last October.
If you'd like to read more about this complicated real-life heist story there's an article titled "Who were Jerry and Rita Alter?":
Linda also found an artist new to her that she really liked - Robert Motherwell. Here is an example of his work:
