A lesson in art appreciation at the Met, a bathtub in the kitchen and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
A lesson in art appreciation at the Met, a bathtub in the kitchen and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
A lesson in art appreciation at the Met, a bathtub in the kitchen and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
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Dear Diary:
My trips to the Metropolitan Museum of Art typically include a stop to see Seurat’s Study for “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte,” a precursor to his much larger “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.”
That painting, almost certainly the artist’s best known, has been viewed by countless visitors to the Art Institute of Chicago, and by many others who have seen a certain popular 1980s movie in which the piece has a small, but meaningful, role.
On my most recent visit to the Met, I heard a man behind me explaining the work to his group: And there’s another one at the Art Institute of Chicago that’s three times as big as this one, he said.
I turned around.
“You really know your stuff,” I said.
“Yeah,” he said. “I saw ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.’”
— James Devitt