My friend was kind enough to take me around her neighborhood of Brooklyn on my last day in NY. I hope I have that kind of energy a few decades from now. We walked over the Brooklyn Bridge so I could see things from that perspective, then went to the Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum. I rushed back to Times Square to see the Moulin Rouge musical – it was amazing and had additional recent pop music mixed in since the film to make it even more fun. It was a sweet final taste of NY!
Brooklyn Museum had mummies
and an interesting explanation of how recent feminist scholarship has shown
that some women were honored with male names temporarily to trick the gods,
something like that, that it wasn’t a typo like previous scholars thought Classic George
Brooklyn Bridge
Skyline from the Bridge
Interesting acronym
here - DUMBO stands for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass
Boats out
Checked out the brownstone
buildings
Dogwalkers are for
real
Great architecture
and bustling city life
Gorgeous Brooklyn
Public Library – so culturally enriched even just at the entrance
Library is trying to
go for a more bookstore vibe to attract readers
Library space looked inviting
The
Dinner Party by Judy Chicago – a feminist art display from the 1970s – a reimagining of a
dinner party with famous women across history (eg Artemisia Gentileschi). Each
place setting is customized to a particular woman, and they get more elaborate the
closer they get to modern times.
Artemisia Gentileschi
place setting
Mary Wollstonecraft place
setting
Emily Dickinson place
setting
Another beautiful
Tiffany stained glass
Love that Romanticism
Classic Abe
Kehinde Wiley’s
modern take on Napoleon (explanation follows)
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| Brooklyn Museum |
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| More brownstone buildings |
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Moulin Rouge musical – amazing and had additional recent pop music mixed in since the film |
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| Downtown was happenin’ at night |
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