Today was a museum day. First, I joined a Meet Up group at the Neue Galerie in NYC. We had a wonderful tour and brunch. It was delightful. The tour was great, what a beautiful building. And brunch was delicious and I enjoyed the group. This was my second Meet Up with this group and it was as good as the first one.

It was delightful to see the Egon Schiele drawings, especially two that were floral drawings/paintings. One was “Sunflower” and the other “Bindweed, Poppies, and Daisies”.

As well as lovely landscape paintings by Gustav Klimt. I wasn’t familiar with these works by these fellows. It was wonderful to see the way Schiele used color. Very deliberate and strong. Ellsworth Kelly uses color similarly.

Klimt’s is very different, he works from very studied painting into impressionistic.

Then I wandered over to the Met.in time for their lecture series. I fell into lectures by three of the Met conservators. It was great. The presenters were Florica Zaharia Textiles Conservation, Yana Van Dyke, Paper Conservation and Jean-François de Lapérouse, Objects Conservation. They spoke about works they prepared for the Isamic exhibit.

It was a really lovely day.