The Metropolitan Museum's new Greek and Roman Galleries - New York Times

I had a great time at The Metropolitan Museum's new Greek and Roman Galleries. Click on this link the New York Times article and it has an fantastic interactive page. We spent the entire day at The Met and were exhausted at the end. It was wonderful, though none of Bouguereau's stuff was on display. I did see the famous painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware. It was huge -- much bigger than I knew about! Picasso, Renoir, Monet, Manet ... were all there. The Rodin sculptures are really great. We liked the ancient Egyptian sarcophagi and the Temple of Dendur. But the new Greek and Roman Galleries were clearly there best thing. It was outstanding and so were the Bellinis they served. Many kudos to my friends at the Onasis Library. The modern art pieces are just stuff I don't get. According to one expert, some of it apparently is meant to not evoke emotion or thoughtfulness or a response of any kind. That's the intention of the piece. That it does that well.