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Las Vegas is too immature to even have a museum here, notwithstanding the Mob Museum, and so, thank God, Southwest often has $39 one way fares to L.A. ($49 one way to San Francisco), midweek fares that is, and I just hop on a plane, take the earliest flight out (5:50am) to L.A. and take the last flight back, the same day, 10pm! You can all but navigate L.A. now without a car, due to their never ending expansion of their light rail and subway system, along with their awesome bus system.
L.A., alone, can well satisfy my hunger for Art, between LACMA, Los Angeles County Art Museum, with 7 buildings of Art, The Broad Museum downtown L.A., and across the street is MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art. I also like the CA African American Museum of Art in Exposition Park. I'm not into the old masters, so, even though I've been there, the Getty just doesn't cut it for me.
How about you? You need to fly away to satisfy your hunger, or drive a long ways, or is there enough Art in your city so you don't need to leave town?
Luckily, I'm in New York City, and you can't get better than that for museums.
But I love going down to Washington, D.C., especially for the National Gallery, and I've been known to go down there just to see a particular exhibition.
I sure hadn't. There was an article that talked about ancient Moche art in terms of modern relevance, specifically the internet and our accumulation of possessions - but I was just interested in the description of the art. When I think of ancient civilizations in Peru, I normally only think of the Incas.
It's not The Smithsonian or The Met, but it is one of the largest art museums in the United States, with a diverse collection including many impressionist and post-impressionist works and an impressive Asian collection.
Right now I'm not near any really good museums. I want to get to Boston again because I love their MFA. I do have the Hill-Stead museum not too far away and it has a Mary Cassatt and a Degas painting plus some really great furniture and gardens. I'll be going there for my fix even though it's not quite enough.
I'm not going into NYC ever again, I don't think. There is the Yale museum of British art--that has some wonderful paintings but it's only a tiny bit easier than getting to NYC.
I'll take a train into Chicago. Great art museum as well as the Field Museum, Museum of Science and Industry and Adler's Planetarium. All great choices.
But I was in Washington DC a few years back and could not get enough of the museums there. You could spend weeks in DC and not do justice to the great museums in that city.
Can't beat the Newseum there. Well worth the price.
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Ever heard of Moche culture?
