Armchair art lovers, you don't need Bird Dog's notes anymore to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) in New York. Plus, you'll save airfare, high hotel and meal costs, cab drivers who cuss at you in some tongue while smiling, stepping over winos, and other joys of visiting New York.
The Met's website is a free ticket to its entire collection of over 340,000 objects, including those in storage that onsite paid ticket buyers don't get to see. It's easy to navigate by various criteria, periods or locations, and each photo is accompanied by an interesting explanation of the piece, its history, context, and so forth. The search engine is also easy and will take you anywhere in the Met's vast collections, without having to get out of your jammies or put on shoes. Plus there are guided tours and videos of Met experts on diverse subjects and on their own artistic passions.
Let's take for example the unicorn from the Unicorn Tapestries at the Met's Cloisters, miles uptown in Fort Tryon -- a seedier part of town -- that Bird Dog posted about today. Here's the Met's website page for that. See for yourself what its about and compare to what you didn't learn from Bird Dog.
Have at it. Occupy The Met and throw off the yoke of the capitalist-running-Bird Dog. Non-Bird Dogs of the world, Unite!
