Re: dags at met

DEAR LIST,
     CD on Dag show is available from Met Store.
          CHEERS!
             BOB

----- Original Message -----
From: Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>
Date: Saturday, November 22, 2003 2:36 am
Subject: dags at met

> For anyone going to be around town over "the holidays" -- permit
> me to
> recommend,
>
> A lovely show of about 2 million daguerreotypes at the
> metropolitan museum
> now til January. Not only is it the most dags I've ever seen in one
> place, but they're beautiful & have the best lighting I've ever
> seen for
> daguerreotypes -- none of that spotlight in the dark effect, but so
> perfect it's almost too perfect.... you see every scratch.
>
> Several of them are about 7 by 9 inches -- I took out my little pocket
> tape to measure & expected alarm bells to ring. They didn't, tho of
> course I was only close, no touching.
>
> The show is worth a journey and the met is open til 8:45 Friday night.
>
> Directly opposite, by the way, is the Philip Guston show -- I hadn't
> expected to like it as much as I did. At the time everyone liked
> Guston'sabstractions & screamed bloody blue murder when he started
> turning out
> "cartoon" paintings. Now they look exquisite & serene.
>
> And the old Japanese ceramics (Oribe if I'm remembering right) are
> delightful til Jan 11. some of the designs are breathtakingly
> "modern."
> cheers,
>
> Judy
>
Received on Sat Nov 22 07:56:16 2003