Kid In a Candy Store (plus a Fun Fact - and sex!)
- 6 days ago
- 2 min read
How much do I love the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
I cannot even COUNT the ways - there are so many.
Here are a few treats from a recent visit - completely unexpected. When you say "Met," you think Masterpieces. Classics. Antiquities. Porcelain, 16th bedrooms, the American Wing and Tiffany glass.
I don't think fun and funky exhibits.
Like these two.
FIRST
Musical Bodies was so cool!
The body as instrument.
Savion Glover tapping. A woman who whistles classical music - killer vibrato. And this, my favorite: mindblowing beatboxers.
And here's your FUN FACT. A violin shaped like a clog - hence the name "sabot," the French word for clog reminded me of this: in 19th century France, disgruntled workers would disrupt work by throwing something into the machinery...yes! Their clogs - aka sabot. And thus the birth of the word SABOTAGE!
Of particular interest to me is this 13th century lute - because due to my show Four Queens, I'm obsessed with the 1200's.
Well, who knew what a sexy instrument this was!
Read on for more detail - but it's shape evokes the breast, the nursing Virgin Mary, and the whole is a rose - which is an erotic reference to....down there...
SECOND
Not far away, on the main floor, is a stunning, enormous costume exhibit ("Costume Art").
Not only gorgeous visually, but so much to learn - why did they develop a bustle that made you look stooped over??
If you go, try to get a photo of you or a friend as the "model" - the faces are mirrors. You, too - like my friend Elizabeth - can be a supermodel!
GOING back today for more!
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