Travels in the 2nd half

Southern Landscape (Southern Flood) by Eldzier Cortor   New York City is home to several world class art museums. The Met, MOMA, and The Whitney would each make any city proud. There is one more world class museum in the city, one that is often overlooked -The Brooklyn Museum   Elisa.rolle, , via Wikimedia Commons The Brooklyn Museum is the third largest art museum in New York City. Its roots stretch back to the 1823, when the Brooklyn Apprentices Library was formed. In 1843, the library became part of the Brooklyn Institute, and began to stage exhibitions of art and lectures on many subjects. In 1890, the Institute reorganized as the Brooklyn Institute for Arts and Sciences, and included the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. During the 1970’s all four parts of the institute became independent entities. Brooklyn Museum - Prospect Park (1910) via wikicommons In 1897, The Brooklyn Museum moved into its permanent home on ...

http://www.postersofsantafe.com/images/products/419l.jpg 20 years ago, The Amazing Ms. D and I bought this magnet. when we visited a few days ago we found out that Santa Fe style is still in full force, but we also found a lot about Santa Fe that we really liked. The Santa Fe Museum of Art The Santa Fe Museum of Art  More than anything this museum may be the heart of Santa Fe. The museum looks like it is an old building that has been refurbished, but its history is much more interesting. New Mexico became a state in 1912. By 1915 some of its biggest boosters and brightest minds were worried that its traditional culture was disappearing. Traditional adobe houses were being torn down and replaced with newer brick buildings, and you thought gentrification was a new phenomenon. So some of the civic leaders developed a plan for to save the center of town. They wanted to build a cultural center in the adobe style to serve a model. They commissioned a set of plans ...