Hubby and I had an interesting night out last night. He is feeling better (he ended up with a slight case of pneumonia)so he wanted to get out and go to an exhibit we have been meaning to go to for a couple months at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. It was an exhibit about Martin Luther and the art of the Reformation. Since some of you might remember hubs is a Lutheran pastor so he really wanted to go. I like art and history so I was in. We really only had time yesterday for the special exhibit but there is a lot of great art at the institute.
The exhibit was really well done and some objects on display have never been on exhibit before outside of Germany. The audio guide was well done too. I did have to laugh when the audio guide was talking about Luther's wife and how important the pastors wife is to the church because of all the work they do with the church. I laughed because I don't involve myself much at all! Anyway.....here are some pictures I thought you would find interesting about our evening.
We had dinner at a pizza place called Black Sheep pizza (a small chain, 3 restaurants in the Twin Cities). The pizza is cooked in coal fired ovens. I thought
@donaldtoo might like my beer. It was a local brew and called Mexican honey, it was smooth and had an interesting sweet taste to it.
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We got our favorite meatball, ricotta, and garlic pizza. We also decided to be bold and try the Persian beef with feta, tomatoes, and harissa. Both were great the Persian was spicy and had a bit too much chopped parsley for my tastes, so if we get it again I would say light on the parsley.
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And me enjoying pizza
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Then we walked about three blocks back to the museum in about 5 degree temps. So here's some of the display..
A piece of pre-reformation art work.
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Here is the pulpit that Luther gave his last sermon in. Hubs really wanted to get in it or at least touch it but he abided by the rules of no touching.
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A big panel of artwork that was made to teaching the ideals of Luther/reformation. It was interesting to note difference in pre-reformation artwork and reformation artwork. One thing was the lack of halos around Jesus and other saints in the reformation art.
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And the text was in German not Latin.
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After the Luther display, I walked around one of the other rooms in the institute for a few minutes while waiting for hubs. I will be teaching my 7th grade social studies class about Egypt the next couple of days so I took these pictures to share with them.
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It was a fun excursion for the night. I think even if people aren't religious it is still worth a go for the history and art of the time period. I didn't take pictures but one part I liked the best was the household display they had with objects from his childhood home and the description of life in that time period. But maybe I'm just a nerd.
sorry you don't have off Monday. I work in a hospital and we (office staff personnel, some medical staff, too) have it off--this hospital is also private sector--not a state run one, for example. 
