fangirljen

Monday afternoon I had a fantastic time at LACMA with Niala and Amy. :D I had never been to LACMA before, outside of the time I went to the King Tut exhibit. And that day, I only went to the exhibit, not the rest of the museum. I would have liked to have seen the Japanese art on this trip, but I love what I saw. Even the Christian art, which, I have to say got to be tiring to look at. There's SO much of it! Room and room is filled with it. They didn't have any of the Italian Renaissance pieces that I love, like Judith Decapitating Holofernes or Judith With the Head of Holofernes, both by Artemisia Gentileschi. Though, the one with Lot and his daughters was interesting. Can you say incest? And not in the good way, either. Uggh. I still want to find a Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun piece in California. It seems that The Vicomtesse de Vaudreuil is at the Getty and Portrait of Theresa, Countess Kinsky is at the Norton Simon. My absolute favorite one of hers--a self-portrait and the first painting I ever saw of Vigée Le Brun's is Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat. I love the expression on her face, the way she's standing, what she's wearing, the whole piece. And her hair. *L* She has this whimsy quality to her that I identify with. Then I learned about her and found she was a very complex and fascinating person. She engaged her audience and consciously constructed her place in society and how she wanted people to view her.

Now I did see a piece at LACMA that I had hoped to see there: Millard Sheets' Angel's Flight. It's one of two of his famous pieces that were not at the Exhibition at the Millard Sheets' Gallery, during the LA County Fair. The other piece is Tenement Flats, which is part of the permanent collection at the Smithsonian--after hanging in the White House during Roosevelt's tenure. What's funny is earlier in the day I had been talking about Angel's Flight to a co-worker. I couldn't remember if it was the piece at LACMA or the Smithsonian. Then I came across a Steinbeck novel, one I hadn't heard about before, that was using Tenement Flats as cover art and the info on the back answered my question. *L*

Somehow I totally missed this when I saw the page last. It seems that the CD Baby page for Atlanta actually has samples of the music! Good sized samples, too. They're all over a minute long. So I've been listening to it over and over again. :D The tracks aren't being sung by the Geffen cast, but Marcus Hummon and members of the TN cast, I think. Anyway, it's very good. :D