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The Isabella Stewart Gardner museum pleases me because if I had been in her place I would have done exactly as she did and amassed a museum's worth of things that pleased me, minimalism be damned. It also pleases me because it lets in people named Isabella for free, which I make sure to tell to every Isabella I run across. On Monday I was speaking to a patient via a translator and the name Isabella came up in her circle and I was delighted to tell them both about this and they both were vocally delighted to hear it.

That's all, but it's a small recurring delight. Long live the quite dead but still awesome Mrs. Gardner!

Current Mood: pleased

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goss

it lets in people named Isabella for free

Hee. I love that! <3

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med_cat

It is a charming museum :)

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princessofgeeks

\o/

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amaebi

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dissectionist

That’s delightful that they let other Isabellas in free!

Also I would love to be the kind of person who amasses a museum’s worth of paintings, but I’ll likely never be able to afford a single painting from any of my favorite artists, much less many! I need to develop less expensive taste in artists. (I have five favorite artists. Tamara de Lempicka’s weakest sketches run like $25k at auction, while her best paintings can pull in $7-$9 million. Frida Kahlo’s paintings run about the same. Hajime Sorayama’s smaller works run about $35k to millions. H.R. Giger’s signed prints run tens of thousands of dollars, much less originals. Junji Ito’s tiny sketches often run for thousands, but at least he’s still alive and should be for awhile yet, so I can hold out hope that I might be able to get something someday.

Sigh. I have to content myself with tattoos, of which I have a huge one in the style of Giger and a smaller one in the style of Kahlo, and the next planned one is in the style of Ito.)

What artists would be in your museum if you had an unlimited budget?

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cmcmck

Giorgio Morandi without a doubt!

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dissectionist

You also have expensive taste, LOL! Looks like $2-4 million isn’t uncommon for his paintings.

At least we can go to museums to see originals, right?

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minoanmiss

Oh my goodness I would have so many replicas of antiquities it would take me awhile to get around to patronizing living artists, as opposed to artisans (to make the replicas for me).

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dissectionist

Ooh! Your top-tier antiquities you’d want then?

I’d love a collection of replicas of dead folks in reproductions of burial sites from around the world. The ways that each culture chooses to release their dead - how they dress their deceased loved ones, the poses they use, the objects they place with the dead to accompany the dead into their cultural conceptions of an afterlife - are fascinating.

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minoanmiss

That would be an awesome and terrifying curiosities closet!

I want a replica of every artwork in my icons, except for this one because I HAVE ONE because lyonesse, drglam and rachelkg are infinitely kind to me. beams and beams

I want a painting or two from the Tomb of Nakht, and one of those Middle Kingdom Everytay Life dioramas laid out on a table, and a replica of one of those blue faience kittens, and a lotus goblet.

I want a statue of Hermaphroditus.

I want to go through an exhibit of Nubian art and pick out four or six things to make replicas of. I don't even know what yet.

I want a red figure kylix with two men fucking in the tondo and girls dancing around the outside, sturdy enough to drink my nightcaps from.

I am going to have SO much fun envisioning what I would like in my fantasy museum.

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acelightning73

When I was a kid growing up, the relatives always tried to find things that my cousin and I (being almost the same age) could do together. She always loved the Gardner museum. I always preferred the Museum of Science, and the Planetarium (and the Lightning Show).