The Metropolitan Museum was the destination for today, and as a second visit I decided to concentrate mostly on the second floor which I had not visited previously. However, first there was a quick detour to the Temple of Dendur which was closed on my first visit. There was a wonderful special exhibition of a collection of Impressionists, with mouth-watering Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, Degas etc works - however, unfortunately it meant that they did not have my favourite version of the Monet Water Lilies on display, so you can't win them all.
My other favourite was an exhibition of the designs of Poiret of the House of Worth, one of the greatest of the French couturiers. His designs could be worn today as the height of fashion. And one Chanel "little black dress" also on display would fit in as well today as it would have nearly 90 years ago. In fact in some ways they are more wearable than some of today's haute couture.
Much snapping of photos was done, through the many wonderful displays, so they will be added to the blog in due course. I even upset one little man to get my photo of Hercules - he was one of many artists working throughout the museum copying or sketching works, and he did not quite appreciate that I wanted the Greek god photo minus his decidedly un-Greek-god-like little self peering at the private bits as he sketched them!!!!!
Tomorrow is off to revisit Ground Zero and the southern tip of Manhattan for my last day in town.......
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