sarah in nyc

Our son had suggested that we go on a museum outing together. We ended up going to the Morgan Library to see  Medieval Money, Merchants and Morality  My husband had spent much of his adult life doing public relations in the financial world. he was also a coin collector in his youth. The Morgan library is beautiful even if the exhibit is a dud. When a museum puts on an exhibit the curators are usually trying to tell a particular story through the art and artifacts shown. There are times that as a viewer one can actively disagree with the particular story being told by an exhibit.  On this visit i actually found myself not in disagreement with the curators but finding myself drawn to a completely different story as told by the artifacts and art works.  In 2024 the universes of textiles and money seem kind of distant but in medieval times the two universes had quite a bit of overlap. The first vitrine showed this... Fourteens century coins from the Greek hinterlands. Th...

My oldest son wanted to go see the Roy Lichtenstein  drawings show at the Morgan Library. My son is leaving for Israel for his Army stint in less than two weeks. I'm not likely to say no to very much  that he might ask for these days. So if he asks to do something that I would love to do anyway, I'm delighted. Until today I had a vague fondness for Lichtenstein's work. He was among the first artists whose work I could identify as a little kid. My parents took me to several Pop Art shows when I was five or six. Later on, when I was at brandeis, their Rose Art Museum had several nice examples of his work. From the Art Institute of Chicago My son is really into comic books, which is, I assume the appeal of the show to him.  This show at the Morgan really brought out how laugh out loud Lichtenstein was. Seeing this exhibit was the equivalent of eating a small, really spicy delicious dish. It left us completely satisfied.