Dan Goes To the Museum

I was in Boston visiting my ailing sister a couple of weekends ago, had an hour or so to kill, and wandered into the the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for the Egyptian show of items from Tomb 10 A, a fantastic collection of Egptianana if ever I've seen one ... The younger son Will often brought home 'The Treasure of King Tut' from the elementary school library so my interest in that subject goes waaaay back ... I had not been to the BMFA since we took the kids oh maybe 15 years ago and I was due for a refresher .. Museums are amazing places ... full of ideas and information, things you don't see anywhere else. They can really recharge your creative spirit .... This was a good visit. Click the pictures to enlarge them ...

Just like my front steps
I started with the music room across from the coat check ... loved the abalone and ebony triangles ...
They had a couple of really fine banjos, and this was a particularly spectacular peg head

Next stop an exhibit on art and music .. There were some pretty good things to see here. Click them and you can read the signs yourself ...

All the pages of Beethoven's Seventh, sort of transparent and on top of each other on the left, a Wagner opera, same deal, on the right ... about 30" x 60" each .....great concept ...
A John Cage graphic

A couple of great early Dylan photos
A wall of portraits by Herb Ritts .. Little Richard, Bowie, Springsteen,Courtney Love, Tina Turner...great photography ..
But this ... you had to be there for this ... 30 people do synchronized Madonna singing and dancing .. hypnotic .. read the blurb below and imagine you're one of them ...

This was a nice exercise in color and music ...
All in all ... it makes you think .... Tomb 10 A coming up next ...