The Met!
It being a long weekend this weekend, lysimache and I were looking for someplace fun to go. We tried first to find warm places, but all the airfare was too much. But we came up with an excellent plan anyway.
So yesterday, we went to New York and went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, because Jen is a wonderful wonderful girlfriend who decided she was willing to drive in Manhattan (to which I had never been before yesterday) so that I could see the Met, which she has been insisting for the past three years that I must go to, and I see why. I think she feels bad that we didn't have time to go anywhere else, but, hey, I'm really happy, because whee art. It was teh awesome.
We saw pretty much everything that was open (which, sadly, did not include the Roman or Islamic galleries) except the Oceania stuff. Started with the Greek and then the Egyptian stuff, which was awesome. Because, you know, giant Egyptian temple you can walk into. (With graffiti, even. Heh.) I think my very favorite thing was the room full of models from some guy's tomb -- bunches of little models of boats, and little models of stables and slaughterhouses and granaries and gardens, all with little people working, and squee, daily life in Egypt. Yeah, I probably shouldn't be excited the most about the old boring exhibits.
We had to go see the furniture, because Jen likes the furnished rooms a lot, and they were really pretty. Then I think we saw some medieval stuff -- I remember horse armor, and tapestries. It is sad how they put the Unicorn tapestry somewhere else and then have a bunch of signs with its picture on it, taunting us.
After that there were a lot of paintings. A *lot* of paintings. I think we saw all the European and American stuff (in between running through the Asian galleries -- Jen likes to see things really fast). There was an Artemisia Gentileschi (squee), and a weird painting of two children torturing a cat with a lobster, and a really girly Apollo giving a laurel wreath to a famous castrato, and lots of voluptous women (my mother, who wanted pictures, is going to be like "why did you take so many pictures of paintings of naked women?"), and many famous paintings, like the Horse Fair and Washington crossing the Delaware and way too many impressionists and Degas's bronzes and that pointillism painting. So, yes, it was cool to see all the paintings. I should make me some LJ icons.
At the giftshop I got my mother postcards and Jen a tote bag with the blue hippo. Jen got me a children's umbrella depicting the hippo -- it's blue and it has the head printed on it, and it has little ears that stick up. Heh.
When we got home (three hours later) we watched Don't eat the pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is Jen's favorite movie ever.
So, yeah, that was really fun. I want to go again again. And see the Cloisters. Yay art.
So yesterday, we went to New York and went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, because Jen is a wonderful wonderful girlfriend who decided she was willing to drive in Manhattan (to which I had never been before yesterday) so that I could see the Met, which she has been insisting for the past three years that I must go to, and I see why. I think she feels bad that we didn't have time to go anywhere else, but, hey, I'm really happy, because whee art. It was teh awesome.
We saw pretty much everything that was open (which, sadly, did not include the Roman or Islamic galleries) except the Oceania stuff. Started with the Greek and then the Egyptian stuff, which was awesome. Because, you know, giant Egyptian temple you can walk into. (With graffiti, even. Heh.) I think my very favorite thing was the room full of models from some guy's tomb -- bunches of little models of boats, and little models of stables and slaughterhouses and granaries and gardens, all with little people working, and squee, daily life in Egypt. Yeah, I probably shouldn't be excited the most about the old boring exhibits.
We had to go see the furniture, because Jen likes the furnished rooms a lot, and they were really pretty. Then I think we saw some medieval stuff -- I remember horse armor, and tapestries. It is sad how they put the Unicorn tapestry somewhere else and then have a bunch of signs with its picture on it, taunting us.
After that there were a lot of paintings. A *lot* of paintings. I think we saw all the European and American stuff (in between running through the Asian galleries -- Jen likes to see things really fast). There was an Artemisia Gentileschi (squee), and a weird painting of two children torturing a cat with a lobster, and a really girly Apollo giving a laurel wreath to a famous castrato, and lots of voluptous women (my mother, who wanted pictures, is going to be like "why did you take so many pictures of paintings of naked women?"), and many famous paintings, like the Horse Fair and Washington crossing the Delaware and way too many impressionists and Degas's bronzes and that pointillism painting. So, yes, it was cool to see all the paintings. I should make me some LJ icons.
At the giftshop I got my mother postcards and Jen a tote bag with the blue hippo. Jen got me a children's umbrella depicting the hippo -- it's blue and it has the head printed on it, and it has little ears that stick up. Heh.
When we got home (three hours later) we watched Don't eat the pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is Jen's favorite movie ever.
So, yeah, that was really fun. I want to go again again. And see the Cloisters. Yay art.