{"id":6147,"date":"2002-02-02T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-02T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=6147"},"modified":"2022-05-02T16:59:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T16:59:10","slug":"a-day-at-the-met-pt-2-new-york-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2002\/02\/02\/a-day-at-the-met-pt-2-new-york-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day At The Met, Pt. 2. New York, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City – this is the second time I have been there – first time was about 7-8 years ago while I lived in Rochester, NY… Thanks to Lou for inviting me on this trip with his family…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sculpture garden, viewed from above<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Meet the shaolin kung-fu fighting bears<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An incredible sculpture showing muscle tone and details<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“Lewis is acting like a real tourist, taking all these pictures…”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“Do I know you? You look like my colleague David!”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Anthony and Lauren<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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When are you going to propose to my daughter, Anthony?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eh… well… I sort of have to get the 10-carat ring first…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“Time for you to give Anthony a raise, so he can marry our daughter”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Let me go, let me go – sculpture that will someday inspire a play called\u00a0Monsieur Butterfly<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Now the armory display, one of Anthony’s favorites…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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From Left to Right, armors built for the Middle Easterners, Germans, and England… I guess soldiers are just larger in size in Germany…?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Don’t know what the heck this is supposed to be… maybe the inspiration behind cat-dog?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Now moving along to the next hall…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This castle was moved all the way from Europe to NYC…

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Marble bust from the Renaissance sculptor Rodin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Forgot who this painter was…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The one and only, the earless… Van Gogh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Seurat, pointalism<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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another painting from Seurat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I believe this is a Monet…?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Now several sculptures from Rodin’s “The Gates of Hell” study<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Death of Socrates<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Moving along to the Frank Lloyd Wright’s living room display…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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More of FLW’s work…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tired yet from walking all day?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The display Lauren was most excited about – Marie Antoinette’s bedroom display…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Thank you for the tour, Lou and Barbara!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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New York City at night, somewhere near my hotel…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City – this is the second time I have been there – first time was about 7-8 years ago while I lived in Rochester, NY… Thanks to Lou for inviting me on this trip with his family…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image155.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6205,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions\/6205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}