Channeling Gertrude in honor of the Steins Collect Exhibition

If you have not already seen the Steins Collect at the MET, go, go, go! It is laden with Matisses, Picassos, Cézannes galore, as well as a stunning pastel by one of my faves Odilon Redon. Also, "Four Saints in Three Acts, an opera written by Gertrude and set design by Florine Stettheimer, is featured. 


Please enjoy the prose that my lovely mother concocted in honor of Gertrude Stein's interesting linguistic abilities. 

The collection was one of looking and viewing and beholding at the Met Museum one to be and hold in the beholding of the joy in the enjoying of all that displaying.  Some were certainly following, commenting on this one and ones in the collection,  commenting and reading and looking and thinking  beholding in the walking in and out of the spaces in the rooms.  To be walking in and out one  beholding and viewing all the ones next ones  in the collection on the ones in the collecting. This one was one charming with charming meaning, certain with important meaning, historic meaning, meaning meaning that was coming out of and following importantly.  This one was one beholding and meaning always there was something coming out of and walking  viewing to other ones with meaning,  Some following the something coming out of this one  following the next one something completely charming!

Met in the Met

So it's been an insanely long time since I've blogged. Since then I've been spending an inordinate amount of time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I've been to exhibitions featuring Indian art, Middle Eastern/Orientalism, and an American wing featuring the good, the bad, and the ugly of American artwork.. too bad there was so little of the former...

While I love the MET, there is still something daunting about the fact that when you leave one major exhibition, you still find yourself in a museum. The MET is a series of miniature (some not so miniature) exhibitions which can be constituted as museums. Essentially, the MET is a museum within a museum within a museum... ad nauseum.

The word labyrinth comes to mind, a maze of sorts.  And the moment I think of the word labyrinth, this also comes to mind... 

Which immediately leads me to think about something else...ummm... Dance magic dance...?

Tomorrow I'll be attending the preview of the Steins Collection. So excited to feast my eyes on Matisse and Cézanne and then feast on French cuisine in the Members Dining Room. Magnifique!