Over the weekend, with help from Maddison and Tom, I put together the next tour guide in the wolf chat Met Museum tour guide series. This time, the guide focuses on decorative arts in the middle ages and paintings in tempera. The route itself is much more focused than the last tour guide, so hopefully you can really spend time either with individual works or kind of meandering slightly away from the route on the map.
As with the previous guide, after you pay $1 for your ticket, open the mobile-friendly PDF link and follow the route I have drawn onto map. When the route stops, stop for a minute; maybe use the pictures I’ve included as suggestions for things to look at.
I asked Ian for his recommendation regarding what to listen to while at the museum. I wish I could just recommend Ondas every time (it’s what I listened to while putting the PDF together). However, Ian recommended The Necks, and I spent my time testing the route out on Saturday morning while listening to their 2006 album Chemist.
If you can, please try not to spend more than an hour in the museum; you can return next week, or any other time.
Mobile-friendly PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tLqozELDmMKN2pN4pLhaT1-mUTOlAvuw/view?usp=drive_link
The Necks - Chemist
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/chemist/1128592892
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5IzDuS__1g
Bandcamp (it’s not on Spotify?): https://thenecks2.bandcamp.com/album/chemist
So, now it looks like Grimes can say “Hey, my boyfriend’s dad just bought Supreme last week… no not the inflatable raft, the entire company. Yeah, Matteo is going back to Tulum tomorrow to play another one of his Afterlife parties.”
Spencer is playing Jade Friday night: come by.
Ex-CIA analyst charged with spying for South Korea in exchange for some Bottega bags?? Could she not hold out for a Kelly?
https://luminatedata.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Luminate_Midyear_Music_Report_2024.pdf Am I the only one who really enjoys reading the entire Luminate Midyear Music Report?
https://harpers.org/2024/07/rachel-cusk-and-ben-lerner-live-in-conversation/
Here’s the recording of that Rachel Cusk and Ben Lerner event from the other week. Reminder that Ben Lerner still has fun participating in Wikipedia edit wars.
Prefab Sprout live in Munich, 1985: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo8FZme1jYM This video is better than literally any of their music videos.
At home Saturday I watched 1988’s A Few Days with Me. I noticed that Olga Berluti and Nino Cerruti were credited for costume design. Everyone looks pretty good: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095943/mediaindex/?ref_=tt_mv_sm