Your favorite museums

Non capisco.

You all are trying to make me cry.

Though, for me it was the Uccello.

Well, that, and some juxtapostions at the Uffizi at the time I was there, re Cimabue and pals. Cimabue, is, of course, not Cimabue, but ............. a name from his town.

There was a crucifix by him positoned at the altar area in the San Domenico church in Arezzo. I photo'd it at the time, and so what. I appreciated seeing a cimabue crucifix in place.

Well I will post the photo once I post the photo.

Most of the names we know italian painters by are not the right names - it is just how we know them.

Ya'll probably thinking of art museums. My interests lie elsewhere. When I was a little boy in Omaha (I was a little boy in lots of places), I loved the Union Pacific Railroad Museum. All kinds of Indian artifacts.

If you are ever in SW Colorado, stop at Mesa Verde National Park and visit the museum. It is small, but worth anybody's time.

It seems that it's difficult to fully appreciate a lot of art if you don't see it in person. Print's don't usually tend to be that good a quality, they are the wrong size, the lighting is wrong and the effects aren't there.

The Mona lisa ( in the Louvre, of course) is very much like that. I didn't like that at all until I saw the original and that beautiful, subtle expression of hers which never seems to print properly.

Roger, I love museums like that and it's a good idea to broaden the discussion to include those as well. The British museum is the most breath-taking museum of cultural artifacts I have seen. It's all stolen, of course, but it would be a travesty to go to London and miss it. It's enormouse and has artifacts from Easter Islands Sumeria, Ancient Persia, The Americas, Egypt, etc, etc . I've never seen anything like it (and probably never will again). I've spent days and days there (it's free as well) .

Unfortunately (sob) , Adelaide is a long way from anywhere, although we have wonderful museums.

Thanks for the link, Walter

I've had the luxury of visiting the Metropolitan Museum in NYC more times than I can count. I'm convinced that I still haven't seen all there is to see. I loved the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Ufizzi (sp?), and the museum in Florence (can't remember the name) that houses the David.

But my favorite museum is the Frick in NYC. It was once a home. So in addition to the great works (two Vermeers and my favorite Rembrandt self-portrait, to name a few), the place presents a view of a kind of life that's fascinating. I'd love to spend some time in the library room, looking at the magnificent collection of books.

Andy, All I remember about the Tate was that there was no air. I had to leave. No circulation.

Sounds like where I work, 'Boita.

I love "The Cloisters" in New York.

It houses art and architecture from the Middle Ages. The building itself incorporates parts of actual medieval cloisters (monastic courtyards). It occupies a gorgeous location overlooking the Hudson River.

George, Yes, the Cloisters is a magnificent place. Brought over and reconstructed brick by brick. The Unicorn Tapestries are there. Worth the trip uptown.

When I visited in New York a year ago last April, and met Diane and Roberta, among other abuzz and a2k friends, Diane and I went to the Cloisters on a Sunday morning, easter actually, it was our last day in the city. I liked it. It must be even more beautiful in later Spring. But my emotional interest turned out to be in the subway ride to there and back from Columbus Circle... I think the subway car was the very same one I took as an eight year old around 1950.

MA, both Dys and I would love to see the Cowboy Hall of Fame. The Rodeo museum in Colorado Springs is not worth the effort, from what I've heard.

The trip to New York, seeing Roberta and Osso was one I'll always remember. Just sitting and talking with the two of them is worth the trip alone, but going with Osso to museums and then galleries was a great experience. I realized that museums, as wonderful as they are, don't depict the art that is current or that doesn't quite make it to the big places, but is still wonderful in its own way. Going to Soho and Chelsea was energizing as we went to galleries that had the work of younger, lesser known artists. Also, there is an optimism and youthfulness to those areas that is refreshing after the sophisticated, somewhat jaded feeling of the great museums.

George, the Cloisters is a gem. The river sets the mood. The scenery is gorgeous and, on a beautiful day, it seemed the most perfect place in the world, although I wouldn't consider it one of my all time favorites.

MA and George, will you be able to make it to Boston when Dys and I are there? We'd love to see you both.

The Cloisters... I wonder if I was there before. I lived for a year, a very short year, but very important to me then and many years later still important, not that many blocks north. Close to the G. Washington Bridge. The number was 3240 Henry Hudson Parkway, an apartment building in which some other people from rko lived. I went to the catholic (natch, at the time) grammar school across the street.

That was a year when I started to hear myself.
Some of the images of that one year are burnished in my mind, and others are ribbons of sensation.

Pardon me, I see I am off point.

Back to museums.........

But it's so much fun when you go off point, wherever you wind up is usually unique.

The Prado
One of the best. Hope to catch the Spanish portrait exhibit.

Les Meninas is included along with Goya's Portrait of Charles V family, a tribute to Velaquez's work.

El Greco

I have to say the Art Gallery of Ontario, since
its probably the gallery I know the best. I
saw the blockbuster Monet, Whistler and Turner
exhibition there last week. A tour de force....

For spectacular setting, it's hard to beat
the McMichael Gallery in Kleinburg with its
focus on Canadian Landscape painters The
Group of Seven, and the spectacular views
through its rustic windows.

Also love the Tate and the National Portrait Gallery
in London, and of course, Moma and the Guggenheim in NYC,
The Detroit Institute of Arts.....

The founder of the Museum of Tibetan Art was probably a looter and certainly a liar, but the art--particularly the pieces dealing with the martial side of Buddhism--is well worth a visit.

http://www.tibetanmuseum.com/

This reminds me, there is a very positive article on the Guggenheim (NYC) exhibit on Aztec Art in this week's New Yorker...

I missed it, Osso.
By the way, Terra Museum of American Art has closed down. I visited it about four years ago, planned to return someday. Oh well. Remember the saying: If you want to make god laugh, tell him your plans.

(Just found this thread, thanks to a link provided to kickycan...)

Diane & Merry Andrew...the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City does have a good collection of Western American art, but if you want to see the world's largest collection of Remingtons and Russells, you have to come to Tulsa. They're at the Gilcrease Museum here, along with other masterpieces of the genre.

I will find you a link...