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| Pizzetta 211
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| My pizza from Pizzetta 211: sun-dried tomato,
fluffy ricotta, arugula, and two perfectly soft sunny-side-up eggs. The
crust was crisp, dark, but nowhere burned. Despite my reaction that I'm
not sure what I think of egg on a pizza, it's clear they really know how
to cook a pizza.
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| de Young Museum
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| The de Young
Museum and its tower.
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I did not take pictures of the Chihuly exhibit. For
descriptions of it, see my blog.
| An explanation of Andy Goldsworthy's Drawn Stone installation.
Interesting idea. Sorry, I didn't take a picture of the crack; it was
simply a crack.
I like the sentiment expressed in the last sentence
of this plaque. Goldsworthy notes that this
installation has a subtly subversive quality, challenging viewers'
conceptions of what constitutes a work of art and drawing attention to
the power of nature to undermine or destroy even the most monumental
works created by humans.
| A large glass Fruit Still Life. It reminded me of similar piece
I saw
in Atlanta.
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| Gustav & Ulla Kraitz's Apples. It also reminded me of that piece
in Atlanta.
| This room had what appeared to be raindrops hanging from the ceiling.
And a lawn chair.
| Miguel Covarrubias's lively and life-ful The Fauna and Flora of the
Pacific.
| Information about the mural in the previous picture, and about others in
the set. I found interesting the paragraph (the third) on how the
murals were made.
Also, I want to know more details about the
missing Art and Culture mural, but I can't find any articles
about it on the web.
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| Jon Kuhn's Portals of Andromeda, a complex, multi-faceted,
glass-within-glass sculpture that this picture does not do justice.
| A movie in which the camera glides around the aforementioned piece,
showing through movement how the internal glass does funny things to the
eye.
| Klaus Moje's Untitled (#7).
| Nicolas Africano's Untitled is a woman made of glass.
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| Chihuly's Green Leaf Venetian, shown in the museum proper, not
part of the special exhibit.
| Cornelia Parker's Anti-Mass. This three-dimensional piece has a
disturbing story, shown in the next picture.
| The story describing the piece shown in the previous picture.
| Sono Osato's Meena has depth. It feels morbid.
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| Wayne Thiebaud's Three Machines. When you read the plaque
(next), you'll understand why I photographed this piece.
| The explanation of the aforementioned painting.
| Enrico Donati's Trouble-fête is unnerving, fantastical,
and unearthly.
| George C. Ault's Highland Light. I photographed it to capture
the crispness of its light.
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| Chiura Obata's Untitled (Alma). The landscape feels oddly out of
focus.
| An explanation of the following video.
| A video of a series of wire sculptures by Ruth Awawa. I like the shadows.
| Timothy Horn's Mother-Load.
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The labels of some vases on the second floor distinguished between
pieces by Louis Comfort Tiffany, pieces from the studio of Louis Comfort
Tiffany, and pieces from the Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company. I
can't recall noticing any other museums making this distinction.
| Timothy Horn's chandelier Diadem, and a self-portrait.
| Thomas Moran's Grand Canyon with Rainbow.
| Bierstadt's California Spring.
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| Frederic Edwin Church's Rainy Season in the Tropics must be
embellished. A full rainbow? Come on.
| Sanford Robinson Gifford's A View from the Berkshire Hills, near
Pittsfield, Massachusetts shows, in person, how light can filter
through the air. This picture doesn't capture the effect at all.
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There was one room of still lifes, with one wall of artists' takes on a
bowl of fruit, and another wall of dead animals.
| An explanation of the "trompe l'oeil" style of painting. It applies to
the next two paintings I photographed.
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| Bierstadt's Sunlight and Shadow has amazing, well, sunlight and
shadow. I love Bierstadt's non-religious paintings.
| Jerome Thompson's Recreation has incredible detail: leaves,
hairs, petals, ...
| Gustav Grunewald's Horseshoe Falls from below the High Bank
(left) and The Niagra River at the Cataract (right).
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A row of shining, polished antique cabinets glowed like new.
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