Grab bag: Legos, sculpture, and the arts

A round Lego building in the enormous New Hampshire Millyard project.

Monticello in Legos. Dig it.

More secrets of round buildings.

Creating a round building with Lego. Hmm. Rotunda?

Link to Linda Ronstadt’s testimony to Congress regarding arts funding. The focus is on music education, and he’s right, it’s a stronger argument than you’d think. Well worth reading.

Seeing the sculpture it’s a little incongruous, but it’s also nice to see something that speaks to the 20th century in the middle of the Grounds, just steps from the lawn. Even if it is called “Tripes.”

To be clear, the students were protesting a policy that had been posted around the Calder sculpture that prohibited photographs of it. So there was a large gathering of students and faculty around the statue–taking photos of it. Clarifications were issued: the ban was only intended to be on commercial photography. Yay?