The year I started art school at Akron was the very same year the Akron Art Museum‘s awe-inspiring renovation was completed. We were all pretty excited about it, and didn’t even begrudge our professors for assigning us trips to visit, or even assigning papers about the art we viewed. But… then I graduated school, and suddenly nobody was forcing me to go out and do these great cultural things, so I got lazy and hung out at wine bars, bowling alleys, and local bands’ shows for my cultural experiences.

I hadn’t been to the Akron Art Museum since my college days until Phil and I were invited to attend the digital media tour for their new exhibition on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art: Real/Surreal.

The Real/Surreal exhibit features American realist and surrealist art, a lot of the time blurring the lines between the two. The collection of sixty paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs feature artists like Edward Hopper, who is famous for realistic rural scenes, and Man Ray whose work La Fortune really tickled my imagination. Phil and I were both blown away by the exhibition, from the detail of some pieces, to the eeriness of others.

If you are ever in the Akron, Ohio area, or just passing through, you should really stop in and pay the Akron Art Museum a visit! They house a couple of my favorites works in their permanent collection, like Chuck Closes’s Linda and Alvin Loving’s untitled textile art. Browsing the gallery is a great experience, and truly, the architecture of the addition is worth the trip alone! The Real/Surreal exhibit closes on November 3rd, so don’t miss it!

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In case you were wondering, I’m wearing: Nine West shoes, ASOS bodysuit (similar here), thrifted shorts, thrifted purse, and vintage hat from What Ezekiel Saw on Etsy