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We took in the Julio Le Parc exhibition at the Met Breuer, then walked back up the original Met for a visit to the Epic Abstraction exhibit. Both were well worthwhile. Walking up Fifth: Triumphant! And a few from Epic […]
A nice Saturday to go to the museum. No particular agenda, just to wander. And so we found ourselves with the ancient Egyptians. We were seeking William, the hippopotamus. To the ancient Egyptians, hippos were among the most feared creatures. […]
A day of poking around the Met is never a bad day. Among today’s discoveries, “Heavenly Bodies,” the fashion show for the summer; and retrospectives of photographer William Eggleston and British-born, American artist Thomas Cole. “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the […]
A morning visit to the Met. We are members this year, so we’ll try to make the most of that! The townhouse in the American Wing: The Temple of Dendur: Sam: Snap the Whip by Winslow Homer: A fun visit. […]
A visit to the Michelangelo exhibit at the Met. The rare chance to see, as the Met web site says, “133 of his drawings, three of his marble sculptures, his earliest painting, his wood architectural model for a chapel vault, […]
My cousin Cathy and her friends were in town — the perfect opportunity to spend an afternoon catching up. Me, Sam, Katie and Cathy: Met Christmas tree: Armor! Temple of Dendur: Remington. George Washington crossing the Delaware. After the Met, […]
A wonderful collection of works by Irving Penn in this small but eye-opening exhibit at the Met. It was just manageable enough to be fun without overwhelming. And the art is remarkable. They set up one of his backdrops so […]
An exciting day for an outing to New York: The Women’s March was going on, and we got a bit swept up in it as we made our way to the Met Breuer to catch the Kerry James Marshall exhibition […]
We went to see Matisse: In Search of True Painting at the Met, and came away learning so much about the artist and his process. The exhibit shows you how he painted in pairs and trios, how he saw light […]
I’ve been trying to visit the Cloisters since, oh, probably the mid-1990s. Finally. We made it. Very happy we did, especially after seeing the gardens. And the unicorns. The Cloisters is a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Here’s […]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art just reopened its renovated American Wing, which displays, according to the Met, “one of the finest and most comprehensive” American art collections in the world. It has George Washington Crossing the Delaware, for one, and […]
My husband, Greg, and I are co-founders of SCF, which chronicles what we eat, drink and grow as we raise our daughter on a tiny plot of land in the Lower Hudson Valley.
