Lola at the Coffee House

Great thread Osso, but I never did find the photograph you said you posted. Was it on another thread?

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Some of the best Gauguins are at the MFA as well. This, par example:

I have some perhaps odd favorites. I've lots in the wider collection, but I have the giant book I sprung real dollars for from the Manet Velasquez show (The french taste for spanish painting, big lender list) on my visit, so I can look up photos of them to post.

I probably saw that nine times, very long the first go through and quicker with each revisit/reconsideration, much shorter, zeroing in, the last time.

But, I need to consider and look up photos. This will be fun.


I already see I spent too little time with Goya's etchings..

here's one: Caprichos No. 39 (And so was his grandfather)

So, shall we all take the Amtrak Acela train up to Boston for the day tomorrow and see the MFA? Great museum.



They have a fine gift shop;



And three fine dining rooms, prices from reasonable to exorbitant, depending on the venue.

Boston - sounds a great idea, count me in!

How about a trip over here to visit the British Museum - always something of interest happening there - plenty of exhibitions - currently there's the chance to experience the fascinating story of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Ah, well, the Caprichos are here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprichos

How about a trip over here to visit the British Museum - always something of interest happening there - plenty of exhibitions - currently there's the chance to experience the fascinating story of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

There was one of our apartment building toward the end, was that the one you mean?

I've lots of photos of that NY trip. (Don't get me started)

Here's the met -



Heh, looks like italy, all the people in black.

I'm a museum liker, although I like some I've been to better than others, and haven't set foot in places I'd like to see, including the Boston and the Gardner and the Brit Museum. That list is long. That is what the internet is for, eh?

I understood that women had had enough of them. You ordering me to "behave" and all.

On museums, the most annoying one was in Arezzo. As one approached a polyptych, or was it a triptych, from afar, a loud speaker repeatedly told us not to get within ten feet of it. I think there was a velvet rope there too. That interfered with just looking at it. I would hope that has been modified by now.

At the opposite extent, the national (I think) museum in Perugia was a delight of 'let's see how to hang this stuff' -
woven wire mesh space walls, with (I think it was a Fra Angelico) a tryptych, and a Raphael, and so on, just hanging from those "walls". You could stand a foot away. I liked Perugia, now newly famous for other reasons.

My other gripes are about museums that insist on your joining a group and being herded. Gah. The pinacoteca in Siena was one of those, and the herding happened the second time I was there a dozen years from the first. I started crying when the tour guide kept pushing me on. She relented when I explained.

It turns out you can ask to see these places alone, but you have to arrange it ahead of time.***

Then there's the camera business, which has changed since cameras have changed. Saying 'senza flash' used to be enough.

I very much enjoyed visiting the British museum, and I'd love to go back there again, vonny. Museums are one of the first places I head for in any city.

And I'd particularly like to see the Pompeii exhibit--I was enthralled when I visited Pompeii, I found it just an incredible place, and I'd like to recapture some of that again.

Good suggestion.

*** I did get to see a whole museum alone, by happenstance. Nobody else was there. That was in Lucca, and a woman in a rose colored suit escorted me. I was no doubt wearing my infamous black travel suit (part wool, part poly if I remember, washable). Lots of paintings of elders of yore. But I remember one painting I liked and we tried to talk, me in execrable italian and her with better than my italian english. I doubt she got my point, something about how the hands in the painting were important. Or maybe she was bored by that idea. I liked that museum, much beauty in the grounds and inside the doors, and courteous staff. (Of course I have photos of the grounds)

I think we three could travel as a crew. No chance from here, but amusing to think about.

So, what do you remember first about the British Museum?

I've never been to the MFA in Boston, Lustig, but I sure would like to go there--I'm ready to hop on Amtrak.

I have bought many things from their gift shop via their catalogue which I used to receive regularly--I'm a big fan of Museum stores.

I'd like to get a copy of this painting when we're there.

What I remember first about the British Museum, osso, are the Elgin Marbles.