点评:One of the reasons we chose October for our visit to New York City was the Monet and Venice exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. The exhibition was stellar, but our museum visit got off to a rocky start! We took the subway from Grand Central Station to Eastern Parkway, walking a few blocks over to the museum. Once there, we could not find an entrance, on the front of the building, so we walked all the way around the building before locating an entrance. (As we left the museum, we found the front entrance that we missed, so better signage would help.) The security guard checking our bags said that all of our bags, even my purse, needed to be checked in order to enter the Monet exhibition area. Despite not measuring my purse, she insisted it be checked (I was given a small clear plastic bag for my valuables, which I didn't want to leave at the open coat check). Needless to say, I was not happy, and was even unhappier when I saw women inside the Monet galleries carrying their larger purses. The building is fairly confusing with so many hallways and the lobby on the main floor. Finally made our way to the Monet exhibition, which really was wonderful. It is presented beautifully with context provided. You will learn about Venice and its early artists like Canaletto and Guardi as well as contempories like Whistler and Sargent painting Venice scenes, Monet and how he started out painting en plein air, his series paintings, his Water Lilies, and his trip to Venice and the resulting works. Kudos to the curators and staff who created this magical exhibition! We had time to visit a number of other galleries in the museum to see works by American artists like Georgia O'Keeffe, Childe Hassam, Theodore Robinson, William Glackens, and Kehinde Wiley. Thankfully also saw the beautiful Della Robbia terra cotta ceramic lunette! Stunning!!
翻译:我们选择十月去纽约的原因之一就是想去布鲁克林博物馆看莫奈与威尼斯展览。展览确实精彩绝伦,但我们的博物馆之旅却开局不利!我们从中央车站搭乘地铁到东部大道站,然后步行几个街区就到了博物馆。到了之后,我们却找不到正门,只好绕着博物馆走了一圈才找到入口。(离开博物馆的时候,我们才发现之前错过的正门,所以如果指示牌更清晰一些就好了。)检查我们行李的保安说,所有包,包括我的钱包,都必须检查才能进入莫奈展区。尽管她没有量我的钱包,但她坚持要检查(她给了我一个透明的小塑料袋装贵重物品,我不想把钱包寄存在开放式的衣帽间)。不用说,我当时很不高兴,更让我恼火的是,我看到莫奈展厅里的其他女士都拎着大包。这座建筑确实有点迷路,走廊很多,大厅在一楼。我们终于找到了莫奈的展览,真是太棒了!展览布置精美,并附有详细的背景介绍。你会了解到威尼斯及其早期艺术家,如卡纳莱托和瓜尔迪,以及惠斯勒和萨金特等同时代画家笔下的威尼斯风光;莫奈如何开始户外写生,他的系列画作,他的《睡莲》,以及他的威尼斯之旅和由此创作的作品。向策展人和工作人员致敬,他们打造了这场精彩绝伦的展览!我们还有时间参观了博物馆的其他几个展厅,欣赏了乔治亚·欧姬芙、查尔德·哈萨姆、西奥多·罗宾逊、威廉·格拉肯斯和凯欣德·威利等美国艺术家的作品。幸运的是,我们还看到了德拉·罗比亚精美的陶土半月形壁龛!太惊艳了!!