Museum Going

I love to go to museums and it's not always to be awe-inspired by art although I often am. I love to go to museums to learn things and to watch how people react to what they are seeing. There's the staring at a painting until your eyes pop out. There's the classic: step back, sigh and nod. There's the speed through. There's the slow motion crawl through. There's the "I'm here because my parents made me come." And then there's me: turn it into a game.

I always make museum going a game. Sometimes I'm annoying (I correct tour guides, but really if I know they are wrong and I'm just visiting they should know they are wrong because it's their job). Sometimes I'm disruptive. I play games like The Renaissance Baby Jesus Game where I make Renaissance Baby Jesus talk and say things like "Mother, I'm fagged. Fetch me a glass of wine." I do this because Renaissance Baby Jesus can do some many things a real baby can't do. Believe it or not I actually know quite a bit about Renaissance art because of this game. I even came to love people like Fra Angelico and Botticelli.

What do you do in museums?

What makes you chose to go to a museum?

What's your favorite museum?

Mine is the Frick, but I love the Whistlers and Vermeers and Gainsboroughs and I could go on, but I'll stop.