May 14
They wore me out
I met Shirley and Melly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art today. We went in via Shirley's Entrance. She's got clout. We spent quite a while sitting on a bench opposite the coat check area and examined each other's journals and chatted, chatted, chatted. Finally, to the relief of the guards who were longing for some peace and quiet, we headed to the Picasso exhibit. Wow and Zowie. Fantastic show and a lot of things I had never seen before. All of us especially loved the linocuts. We have also devised a challenge for one of our future Journal Study Group meetings based upon something Picasso did. Should be just enough to make us crazy.
Then we went to another exhibit of women's fashions - forget the proper name of the exhibition. I wasn't expecting to enjoy this but was blown away by the fabrics and textures. Very worthwhile.
I mentioned that there were very old and beautiful encaustic portraits in this museum and we asked several guards and an information lady but, since I didn't know the name of them or where they were from no one was able to point us in any direction. We wandered around in the Near East area hoping to spot them but to no avail.
Oh well. Then up to the roof to an installation of bamboo.
Every time we headed over to a particular area of this museum we had to pass through zillions of other exhibits and it was mandatory to stop here and there every time something caught our eye. We must have stopped hundreds of times to look at this and that and snap pictures of things that trigger ideas for future projects. Remember, there were three of us and different things were catching each of our left and right eyes and then we had to call the other two over to also see and discuss.
I'm exhausted.
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