Watercolor: Meyer Lemon (& the Getty Museum)

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I went to the Getty Museum with a pile of friends last week (see photos below). Have you been there? According to my fitbit wrist band, I walked 6,435 steps, and climbed 22 flights of stairs that day. Plus, I saw a lot of beautiful architecture, two exhibits: one on food and art, and a process-boggling, gynormous display of just a few tapestries from the collection of Louis XIV.  [Oh, my aching eyes and hands at the thought of that passionate employment.] In addition, I hung out with some very dynamic, art-savvy women, and we all agreed to arrange several future visits since we barely scratched the surface of the Getty collections. The day was cause for celebration, so it felt reasonable to have ice cream for dinner. I know – it was absolutely the right choice. I felt sure that you’d agree. 🙂

What is your favorite Museum, or most memorable Museum exhibit?

 

 Art Quote

If, in time of peace, our museums and art galleries are important to the community, in time of war they are doubly valuable. For then, when the petty and the trivial fall way and we are face to face with final and lasting values, we… must summon to our defense all our intellectual and spiritual resources. We must guard jealously all we have inherited from a long past, all we are capable of creating in a trying present, and all we are determined to preserve in a foreseeable future. Art is the imperishable and dynamic expression of these aims. It is, and always has been, the visible evidence of the activity of free minds.…

~Robert M. Edsel, The Monuments Men

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