Lola at the Coffee House

@ossobuco,

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The first day (I need to see the museum four days in a row)...

Will you be bringing a sleeping bag? Smile

Maybe they'll let you camp out inside the Temple of Dendur.

http://i.images.cdn.fotopedia.com/flickr-2106814105-image/New_York_City/Places_of_interest/Museums_and_Galleries/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art/NYC_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_-_Sackler_Wing_-_Temple_of_Dendur.jpg

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The Met Museum can bump this page..

http://media.nbcnewyork.com/images/654*368/metropolitan+museum+of+art1.JPG

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@vonny,

I found a place where we can rent scooters to help us both navigate the museum. My rollator isn't enough to help with all that walking.

http://pics2.ds-static.com/prodimg/167275/300.jpg

It's great for a limited amount of walking, because it has a seat to rest on, but, for the museum, I think I'll opt for a scooter.

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One of the best options is ScootAround. ScootAround's mission is to provide an easy, convenient way for mature and disabled travelers to enjoy their vacations and other excursions and not have to worry about their personal mobility. By contacting ScootAround through their Internet site or toll free number, they can arrange a scooter rental through their network of dealers all over North America.

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Still trying to bump this page...might as well look at more paintings...

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@firefly,

I have my own mobility scooters - and rollator - but I might as well take advantage of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's facilities, and borrow one of theirs. Good idea - thanks firefly.

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@vonny,

I think I would like to check out the exhibit of eighteenth century pastels.
http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2013/pastels

After I visit my Monet, of course. Smile

http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/the-terrace-at-sainte-adresse-claude-monet.jpg

I wish there was a way we could walk out of the museum with my Monet, without anyone noticing. Maybe we can get osso to create some sort of noisy distraction, and, when everyone is paying attention to her..... Wink

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@firefly,

Nah, I'll stay at the YMCA on, I think it is, 64th. I've sentimental memories of that place. (http://able2know.org/topic/37775-1)

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@firefly,

The pastels are lovely, but I'd make a beeline for my favourite painting - so while you run off with your haul, I'll be on my way out of the back entrance with this beauty!

http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ep/web-large/co.ep.1971.86_16.1.jpg

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@firefly,

Which represents crudity best? The Temple of Dendur or the snack trailers outside the Met Museum?

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@vonny,

Now, now vonny. You are supposed to admire us northern Europeans. We invented all the comforts you seemingly take for granted.

Perhaps we made a mistake.

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@spendius,

What ARE you talking about, Spendius? I'm trying to enjoy a virtual tour of an art gallery with firefly and ossobuco - not attempting to tire out my brain with your fanciful whimsies. Behave!

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@vonny,

I was wondering why that painting is your special one.

Who is the subject? I have seen it before but I don't know anything about it.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rembrandt/1630/meditation.jpg

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@spendius,

I would say pieces of carrot. They're cheap, healthy and you can dip them in anything.

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@vonny,

This sculpture would look lovely in my back yard.

http://www.aviewoncities.com/img/nyc/kveus5263s.jpg

And, I'll take this Vermeer for one of my bedrooms.

http://www.mecnita.com/-Emailed/Emailed/VERMEER.gif

This Tiffany bowl would look well in my dining room...

http://c300221.r21.cf1.rackcdn.com/louis-comfort-tiffany-bowl-5112113-heilbrunn-timeline-of-art-history-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art-1364433057_b.jpg

I'm making up my shopping list. Laughing

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Aack, now I know you can't wrap an url with parentheses.
http://able2know.org/topic/37775-1

I just re-read it, lots of flaws, but I was very enthused.

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@spendius,

It is a portrait of Juan de Pareja, who was the mixed-race son of a female slave and a slave to Velasquez himself, but he later became one of Velasquez' principal assistants.

I love the strength of the face in the portrait - it isn't the face of a slave, but of a proud and free man.

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@izzythepush,

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I would say pieces of carrot. They're cheap, healthy and you can dip them in anything.

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Unfortunately most of my favorite Monets are not at the Met but all housed at the Boston MFA. Including this one:

http://zoom.mfa.org/fif=sc2/sc204544.fpx&obj=iip,1.0&wid=568&cell=568,427&cvt=jpeg

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@Lustig Andrei,

And this . . .

http://zoom.mfa.org/fif=sc3/sc37217.fpx&obj=iip,1.0&wid=568&cell=568,427&cvt=jpeg

That's Venice, Osso (as if you didn't know. Smile

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