Museum Hopper

i went to the frick on a sunday afternoon to check out the new visiting exhibit: masterpieces of european painting from the norton simon museum . they have five paintings on loan from the collection. they are from the "old masters." they had one of a dog that i really liked. the detail in the painting was fantastic. you could practically feel the dog's fur. i really like this museum. it was a tiny exhibit, but worth a trip up to see it. times visited: 3 time in museum: 25 minutes overall: A-

at my boyfriend's urging, i visited the traveling bmw art cars exhibit. he had seen it in los angeles and it traveled to grand central, new york city after that. bmw currently has 16 art cars and is in the process of picking an artist for #17. the collection started with alexander calder painting a bmw race car (which was actually raced after being painted in le mans). four cars travel every year . this year, it is all american artists: andy warhol , roy lichtenstein , frank stella and robert rauschenberg . the cars were fantastic. roy lichtenstein's car had his signature dots on it portraying a road, grass, sun and sky. the stella car was fantastic. it was supposed to be a 2-D design on a 3-D object. you can just feel the air rushing over this car. it was definitely worth a visit to look at these fabulous cars! times visited: 1 time spent at special exhibit: 30 minutes overall: A-

i finally took my boyfriend to the metropolitan museum of art . he had been visiting me too much in the city. i just couldn't allow it anymore. it was time to just do it. i took him to see some of more "masculine" parts of the museum, in particular, the armor and the swords. i really wanted him to see henry viii's armor. i think it is really interesting because you can see how he was built, how tall he was, etc. two days before we went to the museum, they removed it! talk about awesome timing. he did enjoy seeing the armor, swords, guns, and weaponery. it is nice to see how things are made. little known fact: the met has one of the best collections of weapons/armor in the world. we then headed over to the egyptian exhibit, which is great for the engineering or artsy minds among us. the met has a temple that the country of egypt gifted to the us of a, which the US then gave to the met to display. the construction is fascinating, how it was built. my b...