The Art of The Brick

I was so into Lego when I was little. I remember spending hours and hours trying to make something meaningful. It was a lot of fun. When I was visiting here, I wished I was smarter enough to be like this artist. He is brilliant. True artist. I am glad that I came here.

Here’s hoping my review can up the overall rating a bit.
The Art of the Brick is a traveling show of Lego art. I must admit — all of the art was very impressive. While it’s expensive given the exhibit takes only about an hour to go through — it’s a fun activity and gave us a new perspective on art. And, a little motivation to think an attorney gone artist has found such success!
The line does get crazy, but we went early enough in the day we only had a short wait and the experience was not too chaotic. That said, when we left the line was wrapped around the rotunda so first thing in the morning is certainly the way to go.

The time/​crowd management for this is crazy. I bought a ticket for 2pm and at 2pm there was a 200 – 250 person line wrapping around the rotunda twice.
If there are timed tickets there should not be this much of a line — they should not sell so many tickets per interval that you have to line up and wait this long. I finally got in at 2;30 pm.
If I’d wanted to enter at 2:30, I would have bought tickets for then, as they are half hour intervals.
The exhibit was quite good, but after the ridiculous wait, I didn’t really care any more after waiting as long in line as the exhibit takes to see.

Brought the kids to this exhibit recently in Faneuil Hall and I was pretty disappointed. First off were the exorbitant ticket prices. Unfortunately I didn’t do my research so I didn’t know going in how much the tickets were — totally my fault. We weren’t able to back out since the other people we were meeting had already purchased their tickets so for our family of four we paid $ 78.
Our kids love Legos and they seemed to enjoy it. I realize that art is subjective but I didn’t really feel like what I was viewing was art. Many of the pieces were interpretations of other famous works of art. There were also many original pieces. While they were cool I didn’t think there was anything all that special about them. I’ve been to a couple Lego stores and thought the sculptures there were far more impressive. This is just my opinion and I realize that others may feel differently.
We were able to view the entire exhibit even backtracking a couple of times in under an hour. I didn’t feel like it was worth the money we paid and wouldn’t go back but if you are interested in sculpture or Legos and can afford the ticket prices I suppose it’s worth a try.

If you are in the Faneuil Hall area as either a resident or visitor while this exhibit is in town, it is definitely worth checking out. Ticket prices might feel a bit steep, but a few of us did this as part of an evening out, and used a Groupon in order to get a few bucks off per ticket.
The exhibit is on the second floor and attendees are granted access in waves. There’s not assigned times for attending, but there is a brief video shown at the beginning which profiles the artist responsible for the Art of the Brick content which dictates having the staggered start times. SPOILER ALERT: the video introduces you into the concept of making art out of Lego bricks.
There are different themes at work during the exhibit. Some of the first items you will see are interpretations of famous paintings by Da Vinci, Van Gogh, etc. Famous sculptures are tackled as well including a huge Easter Island statue, which for me was truly impressive in terms of trying to figure out how it doesn’t topple over. The artist has his own creative themes at work, some of which felt a bit forced at times, but generally were interesting. When you’re passing through the exhibit, each item has a brief description of the work, in addition to a tally telling you how many Lego bricks were required to make the piece. Some of them are truly staggering numbers.
Both kids and adults can appreciate this work, though some of his own creativity and themes may be more fully appreciated by adults.