Beltane Garlic Moon
Two tours, very different. Older women from South Dakota on a culture junket having something to do with a bank where some of them used to work. Then six kids from a Lino Lakes Y art camp.
The South Dakota group wanted big names of European art. Say what? I went with Monet, Picasso, Kandinsky, Van Gogh, Gerome, Chardin, Canaletto and Poussin.
The camp wanted an introduction to the museum. We started with the naked Olympian, Doryphoros, pondered Lady Teshet and her journey to the afterlife, saw photographs of Minnesota sports. “McHale! He’s my neighbor. Oh, he looks funny.” A photograph of Kevin McHale playing for the Gophers. The Tatra got the usual oohs from the boys and we talked about design. Then over to the Armiajani as my favorite piece in the museum. It always get thinking from adolescents. Looked at the Murakami and Frank and ended with the Borghese Gladiator.
Lottsa rain.
