The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum — Attraction in Ridgefield

I have been a 'Member' of this small/medium sized museum for only a few years but my family and I have been visiting it on a regular basis since we moved to the area. Our favorite aspects of this museum are: It's 'do-ability.' Compared with massive museums such as 'The Met' or Louvre, (wonderful but overwhelming places that can leave me feeling exhausted) this space be comfortably viewed in roughly 45 minutes to an hour. You can take more or less time. No one will push you along. The museum has two floors and a suggested direction of flow. There are 3 display rooms on the first floor and quite a few more on the second, with exhibits displayed along the hallways, the outside and, oh, possibly the roof! (Just saw a coyote there.) Easy to get to and Free Parking. The novel artists and exhibits. The exhibits (Contemporary) are switched-up on a fairly regular basis. For the most part the artists are not (at least to my knowledge) well known. And, as it goes with art, I have liked some exhibits more than others. But that's fine. I really appreciate the fact that they introduce me to art/artists which I would otherwise not get a chance to see. It's location. When you're done there's 'downtown' Ridgefield which has a nice variety of eateries, candy/ice-cream,...

They had an entire exhibit by the type of "artist" who's actually just a glorified IP thief. I can't really personally advocate supporting a mueseum that opts to devote huge amounts of space to artist like that when there are so many excellent modern artist putting out actual unique and original works. There are also many modern artist putting out transformative art that's actually transformative. There's zero reason to ever support the types of artists that choose to take after Richard Prince, using the works of others in ways that involve close to, or literally zero, change or transformation of still copywriter works of art with zero acknowledgement of the first/original creators.

Nice sculpture garden tho. If you're already in the area the outdoor sculpture garden is definitely worth...

Sublime art museum in beautiful building designed by Charles Hay of Tappé Architects. I loved the current retrospective of the late Martha Diamond (1944-2023). Her luminous paintings of mostly New York cityscapes look even better in person than in photographs, making the trip to Ridgefield a must see event. As pointed out in the Financial Times review of the exhibition, Diamond's antecedents include Robert Delaunay's paintings of the Eiffel Tower. I also had to think of Claude Monet's haystack paintings. The artist maintained a studio at 268 Bowery in New York City for 54 years and was friends with the late New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl...