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The Stuart Collection is spread all over UCSD like Paul Bunyan's baby cluttering knick-knacks in a eucalyptus backyard. The beautiful Sarah M. and I drove and walked around the main campus and hit every single point and took JPEG receipt of it all.
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My favorites besides the iconic Sun Chicken include the drinking fountain (actually entitled "Untitled") at the Myers Drive turnaround, and the giraffe catchers, formally known as "Two Flying 'V' Forms."
Walking only would take over 2 hours. It took us two hours in a mixed drive/walk tour. Make sure you have enough sunlight, and plan to see "Vices and Virtues" at night.
And yes. Go on a weekend for free parking.
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Yeah, UCSD has a funny-looking campus but it lends itself real well to public art. My favorites in the Stuart Collection include "Trees" (who doesn't like trees?) and "Vices and Virtues" (you have to visit campus in the evening). But you also want to be sure to see "Snake Path", which is next to Geisel Library (the spaceship). It's lovely and has that Paradise Lost connection, but I think I adore it because it reminds me of the Serpent Mound, which is a pre-Columbian relic in rural Ohio:
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It also is worth mentioning that UCSD has a little art gallery that hosts traveling exhibits, and they get some TREMENDOUS stuff through there sometimes. Dale Chihuly and Edward Burtynsky are among those I've seen here:
http://universityartga.../
Oh, yeah, and it's *all free*. Unless you break one of Chihuly's sculptures. Then you go to jail.
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My favorite permanent art exhibit in San Diego!
The Stuart Collection is a series of outdoor art works on campus at UCSD. You can take a guided tour, which I'd recommend since the pieces are spread all over campus.
Some of the pieces are small. One is a drinking fountain. UCSD students can tell you some are unnerving - like the metal tree placed in the middle of a eucalyptus grove. It plays music, and another tree reads prose and poetry 24/7. Then there's the well-known Sun God, Niki de Saint Phalle's giant sculpture that's often featured on campus brochures and t-shirts. A favorite of mine from my days at Muir College is Jenny Holzer's table full of truisms, a giant marble piece you can use to study that's full of expressions like 'To expire for love is beautiful but stupid'. Since I graduated, they also installed a giant boulder teddy bear. During long walks on campus at night, I used to swing by the engineering buildings to see the vices and virtues neon sculpture. Nothing like a giant flash of the word SLOTH to make you study.
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