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[oursin]

Today I went to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, which I would strongly recommend. It wasn't really walkable from where I am, but I successfuly (eventually) managed to find the right bus stop going in the right direction and only missed the stop I should have got out at by a couple of blocks, so go me.

It's a lovely building (and it's free! very impressive) and a pretty good collection. There are some gems - a Rembrandt Lucretia (though I am rather dubious about the alleged El Greco Expulsion of the Moneychangers from the Temple) a couple of Monets (one of which is of The Lonely Haystack, all by itself in the field - the other haystack paintings I've seen, there are several in Chicago, all had two haystacks), a very spiffing Louise Nevelson (Sky City 1); though an extremely creepy Burne Jones of a sea-nymph, v disturbing. Some really wonderful Asian collections - what I particularly liked about these (and also the Native American exhibits) was that they included work by contemporary artists so that there as not that sense of otherness contained within a historical/ethnographic timewarp. Also furniture, domestic interiors, textiles and craftwork of various kinds.

However, as always, they failed to have postcards of things I would particularly like postcards of!

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[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

The Lonely Haystack, all by itself in the field - the other haystack paintings I've seen, there are several in Chicago, all had two haystacks

....now I totally want a children's book about the Lonely Haystack.

I do love Burne Jones, but I don't think I've ever seen a not-creepy painting of his....

[oursin.livejournal.com]

Once upon a time there was a sad and lonely haystack.
The sad and lonely haystack was all alone in the middle of a big field.
One day a painter named Claude came to the field.
He said 'Hello haystack! Wanna be in pictures?'

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

//chokes on tea

HENRI THE HAYSTACK

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I have noticed this postcard-related shortcoming myself.