I went over to the Metropolitan Musuem last night and spent an hour looking at the Clark Brothers Collection.  I tried to make a video but was not allowed to take any footage of the collection, itself.  

It’s getting harder to figure out what is and is not allowed in museums, since, more and more, they don’t want people to photograph anything and want to sell post cards and movies to make a profit themselves.

The quality of the Clark Collection, for many of the pictures – are unparalleled, and there are some excellent Corot and Renoir paintings.  Renoir is an uneven artist for me…most of his work reminds me of sicken sweet cough syrup – and yet, there are some superb portraits along with banal paintings of Renoir that I, personally, dislike.

There were also some Matisse paintings, that I don’t commonly see and a fantastic Van Gogh,  I think it’s called the Red Room.