You may not know this about me, but I appreciate the arts. Really, I do. Arts I love: music, paintings, theater, broadway. Of course, “paintings” can kind of get you into a lot of trouble because there are so many painting styles and not all of them make my socks roll up and down. But as a patron of the arts I wanted to make sure that I took in the great art scene at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. Ok, that’s not entirely true. On Twitter there the Downtown Alliance said that anyone who goes and takes a picture of a particular exhibit at the museum that day could win a free membership to the museum. Well its not like I had anything going on, so why the heck not!

Well, I have to say that some things about contemporary art I just don’t quite understand. I really just don’t understand…well…all of it. For example. One of the “pieces” was a video of these people clapping, and while clapping they would turn different directions, and then they all walked under a door frame. Here…just see for yourself.

Here’s the piece that you were supposed to take a photo of and tweet to be entered to win a free membership. Its a bunch of taffy candy piled up in a corner. IT’S ART OK!

And what do ya know, I won a free membership!

But I have to say, this one was pretty cool. It is a tree that people hang the white tags on, and on the tags they have written down their wishes. This one is fairly straight forward.

I then found this and it was my favorite piece in the whole museum.

And then I realized that it was actually just a fire alarm with a fire extinguisher. Awkward.

Perhaps with my free membership I can go to the museum more often and contemplate these art works more fully. Until then, I leave you with a few more photos of art, and then Naomi running around Temple Square