Maggie's Farm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the world. It's the most-visited spot for visitors to NYC, despite being overwhelming.  Probably the most-visited spot for people in the metropolitan area too, but those are usually hit-and run visits to new shows like we do.

Place was jammed with foreign tourists. I don't blame them. 

We had to walk through the deplorable and creepy "Heavenly Bodies" show (Fashion and Catholicism) to get to the Public Parks, Private Gardens- Paris to Provence  - show before it closes.

A good historical view of the invention of public outdoor spaces with dynamite pictures. 

Coolest thing in the exhibit? A video of Monet painting in Giverny in old age, rapid painting, the cigarette in his mouth threatening to ignite his bushy Santa Claus beard. 

I took just one snap: Manet's picture of Monet puttering in his garden, with his family. 1873. The label said that, later in that day, Monet did a picture of Manet painting a garden picture.