Thursday, July 13, 2017

Photo Tour: A day at the Metropolitan Museum & Met Breuer




The ancient Greeks were fascinated with the buttocks, huh?














Below, the new Members Lounge looks tidy but boring.















These statues "stand witness" to thousands of years of tourists... in many lands.









Above: an outfit more colorful than the paintings.
Below: pornography all over (ok for "under 18" to see).




















I love how the off-center / catty-cornered doorways lead your curiosity to the next gallery.



Ah, the Art Deco era of "promised progress"... that American Industry lied about.  The speed of progress is gone in all the industries, above.

Below, a cute vignette about the addiction of caffeine. 


Below depicts how laborers and farmers support the nation, while city dwellers revel in naughty vices of pleasure.







































Below, an ivory piece of intricate hand-carving, circa 1200!



If you don't believe in growth hormones, how do you explain why furniture prior to the 1880s is so much smaller?









 

To learn about dining options at this museum, please go here:



We ended with drinks at the austere bar at The Met Breuer, inside a separate building nearby.



However, the drinks didn't help mask the talentless work on display there: the Met's modern art collection. (I think they were happy to ship everything to this place, and get it out of the Metropolitan Museum).

Do you want to know what they paid to give space to?  (and what visitors paid admission to see?)


A film of a girl kicking a bucket along a Middle Eastern street.



Extremely abstract pieces, which didn't seem to require much talent at all.



A table and chairs covered in feathers.



Bowls filled with colored water.



State-of-the-art projectors playing randomly-spliced home movies from the 1970s.



and a laughable white canvas of white paint = nothing.



Even the lobbies of that "Communist cement block"-style building...



were a waste of unused space (and electricity).




As for us, we'll gladly prefer to the color, pattern, history, and ingenious delights from schooled/apprenticed/skilled artists at the big museum!







*To see the time that Lewis and I saw parts of the world's largest private art collection, please click this link:





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