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museum hopping! yes, i have no formal training on pretty much any of the museums i have been to, but my current museum visit count (including repeats) is 350 (eek!) and ~41% of the top "paintings to see before you die."

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By Katie Tamarelli - December 12, 2009

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Cincinnati Art Museum

By Katie Tamarelli - January 26, 2020

A couple of weekends ago, I dashed into the Cincinnati Art Museum to see the Treasures of the Spanish World exhibit. The exhibit was created by the Hispanic Society and very c learly, the descriptions were written by the Hispanic Society. The exhibit spanned the typical exhibit hall and then also one of the other halls sometimes used for exhibit too. With my annual membership, I had free admission to the exhibit. The exhibits starts much further back than expected, which if I had read the description closely, I would have known. It focuses on the holistic Iberian peninsula. The exhibit is set up chronologically and has a mixture of art mediums. The exhibit had descriptions of the art in both English and Spanish. As i mentioned earlier, the descriptions were definitely written by the Hispanic Society as a few of them were quite complimentary about their collection and its possessions. So I did end up taking a bunch of pho...

metropolitan museum of art

By Katie Tamarelli - November 29, 2009

i went to the metropolitan museum of art today to see the art of the samurai: japanese arms and armor, 1156-1868 . this exhibit was in the typical special exhibit location....second floor to the left passing through the marble statues. the exhibit was fantastic. as described in the introduction to the exhibit, it is the most comprehensive exhibit ever devoted to samurai art. most of the art were designated as "national treasure" and "important cultural property." i found quite a few of the items on the wikipedia page for japanese national treasures . the exhibit had a number of swords, sword mountings and armor. a number of the items (~60) will be switched out in the next week with new items. most of the items cannot handle light for such long periods. some of the armor was fantastic, in particular one. this particular armor was replicated 100 years later for a child in the same family. this helmet was absolutely fantastic. i cannot believe that i spent ...

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

By Katie Tamarelli - July 27, 2019

One of the few tickets we bought in advance for this trip was for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao . What a beauty. A piece of art in of itself. Let me start with the outside, which has a number of statues and the building itself. As we walked up to the building, we were greeted by the terrier of flowers. It was fairly stunning at five floors high. When you get up close, how the flowers and colors come together. I saw her sibling in Tokyo in Roppongi Tower Getting into the museum, it was the smoothest entrance we had been in. They have plenty of workers there handing out the headsets and checking tickets. We got there as it was opening and headed immediately up to the top. The Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescrible exhibit was/is hard to forget. I am not sure how much I would consider it art though. It was thought provoking and we did spend some serious time thinking about it. The scale of some of her work was...