a history of lovers
Musée Maillol, Paris
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Neue Galerie, New York
MoMa Berlin, Berlin
Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, Brussels
Schwarzwälder Freilichtmuseum Vogtsbauernhof, Black Forest
American Museum of the Moving Image, New York
Musée D'Orsay, Paris
Musée des Beaux Arts, Rouen
Neue Pinakothek, Munich
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Museo de Escultura al Aire Libre de la Castellana, Madrid
Pergamonmuseum, Berlin
Schloß Heidelberg, Heidelberg
Palacio Real, Madrid
Schloß Nymphenburg, Munich
Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe
Ermita de San Antonio de la Florida, Madrid
Stuttgarter Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt
Goethe Haus, Frankfurt
Ludwig van Beethoven-Haus, Bonn
Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid, Madrid
Museum für angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Petit Palais, Paris
Frankfurter Paulskirche, Frankfurt
Real Sitio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, El Escorial
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Les Invalides / Musée de l'Armée, Paris
Münchner Residenz, Munich
Musée Picasso, Paris
American Museum of Natural History, New York
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Lowe Art Museum, Miami
National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid
Morgan Library and Museum, New York
Weissenhofmuseum Le Corbusier Haus, Stuttgart
Catedral y Museo Diocesano, Toledo
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid
Mütter Museum, Philadelphia
National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Cinémathèque Française, Paris
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Fundación Juan March, Madrid
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia
Fundación Mapfre, Madrid
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Fundación Caja Madrid, Madrid
Museu Picasso, Barcelona
Museo Sorolla, Madrid
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Fundación Carlos de Amberes, Madrid
Museu de l'Erotica, Barcelona
Alcázar de Segovia, Segovia
Catedral de Justo, Mejorada del Campo
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Miami Art Museum, Miami
Altes Pinakothek, Munich
Deutsches Museum, Bonn
Fundación Canal Isabel II, Madrid
Kloster Maulbronn, Maulbronn
National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.
Barnes Foundation, Merion
Not bad, right? Had I only visited each one once, I'd average a different museum visit every 4 and a 1/2 weeks for the past five years; as it stands that I've visted many of these several times (the Prado alone has been visited some 20-odd times just in the past 4 years, and I visit each of the different Madrid-based fundaciones atleast 3 or 4 times a year), so my stats are raised nicely. To think, tho, what a fortune has been dispensed on museum entry fees over the years - sure, the Bundestag picked up the tab at most-all of the German ones, and many of the others listed are free, and by going at certain hours one can avoid paying at the Louvre and the Prado - but the rest have entrance fees that range between 3 euros and over 20 dollars. I don't regret a cent, but, still, wow.
Other things: it's gone unseasonably icy in Madrid, which is as vaguely fascinating as entirely unexpected - the weather was ideal just a few days ago, and yet since Tuesday morning we've had temperatures in the negatives (celcius) and wind that actually makes you feel the cold. I rarely wear anything more than a t-shirt and a jacket, but today I was obliged to sport t-shirt, sweater, hoody, jacket, scarf and hat just to not curl up and die in some ditch en route to school. Here's hoping this isn't the winter of death, but on the plus side, the view of the snow-topped mountains from school is pretty awesome (even if it's from there that the freezing wind descends upon our collective faces) and a number of teachers have conveniently taken ill, making for the slimmest week of classes I've had so far to date.
Any ideas how I can make a social research paper out of my previous Spanish Civil War studies? I've got extensive book research on the period and in-depth interviews with two (ideologically opposed, opposite gender) survivors of the Siege of Madrid. Any ideas for a basic thesis I can somehow make out of this?
I watched Twilight last night. I'm convinced that movies are much harder to watch on the computer, only because in theatres you have the entire movie-going experience, and it really has to be shit for one to walk out; on the laptop, if there's any sort of lull in the entertainment, one can always just open up another window and read something interesting in the Times. Maybe for this reason it took me the better part of four hours to work my way through a film last half as long. Twilight, in short, has alot of flaws. I'm tempted to say that the main one is it being based on a teen book series written by a mormon, but given I haven't read the novels, I'll refrain and just say that my problems with the film were mainly, A) the main female character being obnoxious and perpetually pouting, and B) the incoherent plot developments. In these aspects, this was a horrible film. The girl is pretty insufferable and so much of an inexplicable bitch (Secondary character, being nice: "Hey, you're from Arizona! Aren't you all supposed to be tanned?", Ho-Bag Lead Girl, in bizarre self-pitying tone: "Maybe that's why they kicked me out.") that you kind of want her to end up devoured by the vampires through most of the film. Instead, however, you get a romance that both manages to be drawn-out yet completely underdeveloped - other than the fact that he's crazy pretty, you don't really figure out why she's so into the vampire, or why, for that matter, he'd have any interest in her scowling ass. It ends up coming off as the deluded fantasy of a bitchy reject - I'm so different (why? she has no discernible talents or particular intellect that would make her stand out, or by any means give her any sort of motivation to fervently reject her classmates), I'm so tortured (again, why? she kind of voluntarily moved to the town where she lives, and she seems to have it rather brilliantly, being able to essentially do as she wishes), I'm so in love (what, with the mysterious pale kid?) - the appearance of the dreamy vampire suitor just ends up coming off as the mental delusion of a manic-depressive egotist, and the movie basically encourages what no doubt is the escapist fantasy of too many socially incompetent young ladies. Is there anything wrong with this? Not technically, but that doesn't stop it from being immature and fucking idiotic, especially when it implies wasting a perfectly good sexy vampire on such a completely bland leading girl - I have to join Justin on this one: the movie should have been about the sexy vampire hooking up with his sexy vampire foster-brother. In like the last ten minutes of the movie they throw in drama with a rival vampire trying to kill the girl, then a vampire fight, blah blah blah, it's all fucking dumb and poorly structured in terms of exposition, and then there's a culminating scene where the girl goes all pscho-girlfriend in the hospital and starts shouting on the vampire, telling him basically to not even fucking think about ever leaving her (relationship fail), and then they wrap up the movie by going to prom. Seriously, what the fuck? This is a movie for fat gothic 15-year-old girls - who probably don't even realize the absurdity of it all being a massive "true love waits" abstinence metaphor. Whatever happened to the good old fashioned, fuck-and-run vampires? Bram Stoker is turning in his grave (or alternately feasting on the blood of small children, depending on whether or not it's nighttime in Britain right now). Here's for a movie with a dreamy vampire who isn't constrained by the religious hang-ups of the writer and obliged to cavort with a matching character much lamer than he.
And here's to what could possibly be the coolest summer ever? Hip-hip, planning stages of Team Roncesvalles are go!
Over and out.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Neue Galerie, New York
MoMa Berlin, Berlin
Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, Brussels
Schwarzwälder Freilichtmuseum Vogtsbauernhof, Black Forest
American Museum of the Moving Image, New York
Musée D'Orsay, Paris
Musée des Beaux Arts, Rouen
Neue Pinakothek, Munich
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Museo de Escultura al Aire Libre de la Castellana, Madrid
Pergamonmuseum, Berlin
Schloß Heidelberg, Heidelberg
Palacio Real, Madrid
Schloß Nymphenburg, Munich
Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe
Ermita de San Antonio de la Florida, Madrid
Stuttgarter Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt
Goethe Haus, Frankfurt
Ludwig van Beethoven-Haus, Bonn
Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid, Madrid
Museum für angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Petit Palais, Paris
Frankfurter Paulskirche, Frankfurt
Real Sitio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, El Escorial
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Les Invalides / Musée de l'Armée, Paris
Münchner Residenz, Munich
Musée Picasso, Paris
American Museum of Natural History, New York
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Lowe Art Museum, Miami
National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid
Morgan Library and Museum, New York
Weissenhofmuseum Le Corbusier Haus, Stuttgart
Catedral y Museo Diocesano, Toledo
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid
Mütter Museum, Philadelphia
National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Cinémathèque Française, Paris
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Fundación Juan March, Madrid
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia
Fundación Mapfre, Madrid
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Fundación Caja Madrid, Madrid
Museu Picasso, Barcelona
Museo Sorolla, Madrid
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Fundación Carlos de Amberes, Madrid
Museu de l'Erotica, Barcelona
Alcázar de Segovia, Segovia
Catedral de Justo, Mejorada del Campo
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Miami Art Museum, Miami
Altes Pinakothek, Munich
Deutsches Museum, Bonn
Fundación Canal Isabel II, Madrid
Kloster Maulbronn, Maulbronn
National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.
Barnes Foundation, Merion
Not bad, right? Had I only visited each one once, I'd average a different museum visit every 4 and a 1/2 weeks for the past five years; as it stands that I've visted many of these several times (the Prado alone has been visited some 20-odd times just in the past 4 years, and I visit each of the different Madrid-based fundaciones atleast 3 or 4 times a year), so my stats are raised nicely. To think, tho, what a fortune has been dispensed on museum entry fees over the years - sure, the Bundestag picked up the tab at most-all of the German ones, and many of the others listed are free, and by going at certain hours one can avoid paying at the Louvre and the Prado - but the rest have entrance fees that range between 3 euros and over 20 dollars. I don't regret a cent, but, still, wow.
Other things: it's gone unseasonably icy in Madrid, which is as vaguely fascinating as entirely unexpected - the weather was ideal just a few days ago, and yet since Tuesday morning we've had temperatures in the negatives (celcius) and wind that actually makes you feel the cold. I rarely wear anything more than a t-shirt and a jacket, but today I was obliged to sport t-shirt, sweater, hoody, jacket, scarf and hat just to not curl up and die in some ditch en route to school. Here's hoping this isn't the winter of death, but on the plus side, the view of the snow-topped mountains from school is pretty awesome (even if it's from there that the freezing wind descends upon our collective faces) and a number of teachers have conveniently taken ill, making for the slimmest week of classes I've had so far to date.
Any ideas how I can make a social research paper out of my previous Spanish Civil War studies? I've got extensive book research on the period and in-depth interviews with two (ideologically opposed, opposite gender) survivors of the Siege of Madrid. Any ideas for a basic thesis I can somehow make out of this?
I watched Twilight last night. I'm convinced that movies are much harder to watch on the computer, only because in theatres you have the entire movie-going experience, and it really has to be shit for one to walk out; on the laptop, if there's any sort of lull in the entertainment, one can always just open up another window and read something interesting in the Times. Maybe for this reason it took me the better part of four hours to work my way through a film last half as long. Twilight, in short, has alot of flaws. I'm tempted to say that the main one is it being based on a teen book series written by a mormon, but given I haven't read the novels, I'll refrain and just say that my problems with the film were mainly, A) the main female character being obnoxious and perpetually pouting, and B) the incoherent plot developments. In these aspects, this was a horrible film. The girl is pretty insufferable and so much of an inexplicable bitch (Secondary character, being nice: "Hey, you're from Arizona! Aren't you all supposed to be tanned?", Ho-Bag Lead Girl, in bizarre self-pitying tone: "Maybe that's why they kicked me out.") that you kind of want her to end up devoured by the vampires through most of the film. Instead, however, you get a romance that both manages to be drawn-out yet completely underdeveloped - other than the fact that he's crazy pretty, you don't really figure out why she's so into the vampire, or why, for that matter, he'd have any interest in her scowling ass. It ends up coming off as the deluded fantasy of a bitchy reject - I'm so different (why? she has no discernible talents or particular intellect that would make her stand out, or by any means give her any sort of motivation to fervently reject her classmates), I'm so tortured (again, why? she kind of voluntarily moved to the town where she lives, and she seems to have it rather brilliantly, being able to essentially do as she wishes), I'm so in love (what, with the mysterious pale kid?) - the appearance of the dreamy vampire suitor just ends up coming off as the mental delusion of a manic-depressive egotist, and the movie basically encourages what no doubt is the escapist fantasy of too many socially incompetent young ladies. Is there anything wrong with this? Not technically, but that doesn't stop it from being immature and fucking idiotic, especially when it implies wasting a perfectly good sexy vampire on such a completely bland leading girl - I have to join Justin on this one: the movie should have been about the sexy vampire hooking up with his sexy vampire foster-brother. In like the last ten minutes of the movie they throw in drama with a rival vampire trying to kill the girl, then a vampire fight, blah blah blah, it's all fucking dumb and poorly structured in terms of exposition, and then there's a culminating scene where the girl goes all pscho-girlfriend in the hospital and starts shouting on the vampire, telling him basically to not even fucking think about ever leaving her (relationship fail), and then they wrap up the movie by going to prom. Seriously, what the fuck? This is a movie for fat gothic 15-year-old girls - who probably don't even realize the absurdity of it all being a massive "true love waits" abstinence metaphor. Whatever happened to the good old fashioned, fuck-and-run vampires? Bram Stoker is turning in his grave (or alternately feasting on the blood of small children, depending on whether or not it's nighttime in Britain right now). Here's for a movie with a dreamy vampire who isn't constrained by the religious hang-ups of the writer and obliged to cavort with a matching character much lamer than he.
And here's to what could possibly be the coolest summer ever? Hip-hip, planning stages of Team Roncesvalles are go!
Over and out.