We went to the art museum here in town, and they had a traveling collection of "Old Masters" which was about 300 years worth of French art, and there were some Manet's, Monet's and a solitary Van Gogh self portrait. Da Creature thought it was cool, but seemed mostly impressed with the fact that some of the painters in Paris in the late 1700's probably knew Ben Franklin. He's a trip, right? (Not Ben Franklin, ya moog, but da Creature who finds a way to make EVERYTHING about the revolutionary war because he's so obsessed with it currently).I, on the other hand, was as underwhelmed as usual with the Mississippi Museum of Art, which boasts tiny little collections of mostly irrelevant junk and occasionally has some larger collections travel through on their way to somewhere interesting. Sorry, those of you in Jackson who really LIKE the Museum, and I'm sure many Bothans died to bring it to us or some other such nonsense about how sacrificial those in charge have had to live in order for us to have even this.... BUT, I've been to real museums and this ain't it, boys and girls. Still, da Creature enjoyed himself and my $8 or so wasn't terribly wasted.
Someday, I hope to take him to Washington, D.C. and New York. There are at least more museums there; some of renown, even. Meanwhile, I will regale him with tales of our days spent trying to get as much seen in the Hermitage as was humanly possible in the little time we had, and talk about being in the cold room at the British Museum, between the Magna Carta and the Gutenberg Bible. He can look at our pictures of the Brownian movement we endured with the thousands of other people crammed into the Vatican museums that day (those few hours) and I can teach him about scultpure and art in the great Cathedrals as best I can in books and photos. In the meantime, though, I suppose this will have to suffice.
And in the WTH files from the art museum...
Steam punk folk do better work than this. Seriously. I have seen better art at Sci-fi conventions.
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