This place is just like the Guggenheim: ladies who lunch and hip youngsters looking at a teeny bit of permanent collections and a couple floors worth of special exhibition. And so, like the Guggenheim, whether it’s worth a visit is almost wholly dependent on whether the exhibition is good or not. I’ll report back if the next exhibition here is bad, but I think that they can be trusted to rustle up interesting, if not especially challenging art. The current exhibition is called “C’est la Vie! Vanities from Caravaggio to Damien Hirst,” but you can refer to it as “Skulls, Skulls, and More Skulls!” since the inclusion criterion seems to have been “is there a skull in this work of art? if yes, put in the exhibition; if no, please add a skull and try again.” (Also, if the painting which is labeled as by Caravaggio is actually by Caravaggio, I will eat a skull).
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