Sunday October 16 - off to Brooklyn Museum of Art

 The brooklyn Museum of Art is a grand old C19th building with Neoclassical facade now embedded in a fantastic glass atrium across the front. The museum has a light filled central rotunda and is a great mix of old and new

Front

Entrance hall

Rodin

 There is a huge brick arcade through which is another very large hall

 The old inner courtyard around which is displayed work from ancient Egypt and other cultures

 Yinka Shonebare

 African textile samples

 Elvis mask made for ceremonies - see below

A beautiful beaded girdle for a man

 A fantastic work all carved and painted

 A fantastic show of Paintings by Eva Hesse from the 1960's before she made only 3D work - called 'Spectres'

 Eva Hesse

 Eva Hesse

 Detail, Georgia O'Keefe, from the 'Dinner Party' by Judy Chicago which I have never seen for real. What was beautiful was the embroidered and embellished textiles which you can't see very well in photographs

 Virginia Woolf

 Emily Dickinson

 Large shot

 Mary Wollstonecraft

 It was really fantastic

There are three parts, the entrance banners which are wonderful tapestries, the dinner party installation and then a terrific 'herestory' which traces the history of the world through the many women she immortalised in this piece. It really was a blast from the 70's - confident, unquestioning, clear but Eurocentric!

 Louise Bourgeois, a wonderful piece

Louise Bourgeois.

On our local 116 bus to the subway we met this lovely lady travelling with her grandson. She has been growing her nails for 6 years. She said it was the best solution to housework!

This young woman with the pumpkin was a nurse or doctor working as a volunteer at the Wall Street occupation's medical unit. She told us there had been some bad instances, she'd treated a badly broken leg and other injuries inflicted on protestors by the police.

All in all a great last Sunday in New York