Remote Museums

After all the excitement at Mabel Watson Payne's birthday party yesterday, I wanted to do something relatively calm today and my first thought was an art museum. But it only took half a second of reflection to realize that on a Sunday at the height of San Francisco's summer tourist season the overpopulated atmosphere inside the city's museums would likely be a better guarantee of frenzy than serenity.

All the same, this situation turned out to be a good example of how the invention of the internet – even though it came at a fairly late stage in my own life – does benefit even me in certain tangible ways. In this case by allowing me to swoop in and out of art museums all over the world and enjoy a quiet afternoon at the same time.

Dutch gallery at the Wallace Collection, London

Portrait gallery, Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Yayoi Kusama at Kunsthal Rotterdam

Yayoi Kusama at Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid

Sui Jianguo at Museum Beelden aan Zee, the Hague

Sui Jianguo at Museum Beelden aan Zee, the Hague

Sui Jianguo at Museum Beelden aan Zee, the Hague

Sui Jianguo at Museum Beelden aan Zee, the Hague

El Greco at the Art Institute, Chicago

Polychrome garlands on ceiling, Versailles

Francis Bacon at the Pompidou, Paris

Francis Bacon at Galerie de Gegenwart, Hamburg

Francis Bacon at Tate Modern, London

Leonard Baskin at Tate Modern, London

Winged Victory of Samothrace, Musée du Louvre

Painted ceiling, Musée du Louvre

Model lighthouse at Railz Miniworld, Rotterdam

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