Summertime Sadness
Entry 1 Last summer , as we traveled the Atlantic Seaboard, I wasn't updating my journal. It seems criminal now, given the amount of amazing things we did. A highlight of the trip was our visit to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. We went on a lark. We walked to the Museum on a warm summer's day, a few miles from our hotel. There is a satellite building a few blocks from the main museum, where I encountered one of Rodan's The Thinker , a giant piece, sitting outside the building. The museum itself was, in my estimation, one of the greatest museums around. The Henry Privat-Livemont poster shown here , a work included in the exhibition of posters of the 19th century Art-Nouveu movement, and showing on our visit, was a favorite of mine. The poster, and others he made which were very similar, had been created for a Belgian tea company. And people say imperialism and colonialism never brought anything good into the world. The entire exhibition, along with others, sucked me in for...