Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City

Random facts:

82 and 5th Avenue. 

The Met doesn't have any Frida Kahlo paintings, but 5 Vermeers out of 34. It has 2 Agnes Martins and a photograph of her by Diane Arbus. 

It is the largest museum in the USA, 5th in the world. 

This one is in room 956:

One of the people in the book club reports this podcast is good: Nate DiMeo - The Memory Palace, Met Residency.

I didn't go one last time to the Ruben before it closed. What an utter disappointment that is to me that I didn't do that. I'm hoping to put that insight into going to museums now that I'm more activated. 

I went 7/21/25, and room 111 with Hatshepsut was yet again denied to me. I talked to a nice guard who gave me a company answer as to possible reasons why. 

I went straight for Iran and it didn't disappoint:

Rumi illuminated book

Read the plaque below:

Feel like that was from Rostram epic, the poem Shahnameh.

I like the guy with many faces.

I went through the near east, european painting, Monet and Manet, just touched into early renaissance.  There are some crazy faces. And the aforementioned Egyptian disappointment. 

I had 13.2K steps last time, 12.6K this time, took the bus to the subway today to conserve my energy.

For the first time, I thought: The image on the computer doesn't do the painting justice. I felt like it was an amazing painting, but online isn't not as impressive. The colors seemed more vivid, the size mattered.