Museum Lovers Gifts

'The good ol'days actually mean 'when I was young'.'

Composition with climate change protester

It says they're 120 million years old, enjoyed long walks along the tar pit, and loved nibbling on rodents together. Carbon-dating.com

Museum of Art and Science. Monet. "Claude Monet, the father of impressionism, was a master of light. He sometimes painted in series, showing the passage of time with evolving sunlight and shadows." Einstein. "Albert Einstein won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in the dual nature of light, behaving like both a wave and a particle, and how this duality explains the photoelectric effect." I love that! Even though Einstein and Monet both worked with light, the only thing their work has

Cleaner in a museum getting scared by the exhibits.

'It's one of Dr Guillotin's earlier prototypes.'

Spanish Art restorers to be regulated after botched jobs

'Hurry, wipe it off before Dad comes home!'

You're my Mona Lisa.

I've been teaching art history for decades. Students today ask new kinds of questions. No, I doubt a gluten-free menu option was available that evening. Nope, the artist was not making a statement about climate change. No, despite the umbrellas, this is not about sun exposure safety. Well, yes, I suppose you can say it's a selfie.

At the Museum

"I think that's one of his early 'blank canvases'. I think there are some bigger ones in the next room."

Paul Klee

'The way the eyes follow you is uncanny.'

"I think he was a celebrity."

Culture Saturday

'That's about it so far, Son.'

Party Animals.

'Of all the nerve!...Making us sit through the whole of their Bayeux Tapestries!!'

"Why don't you find a museum!"

"Personally, I'm a doer."

"And that's General Ambrose T. Spangler. He died in the Great Mustache Fire of 1897."

"Me? How about you go closer and read the plaque!"

Fertility goddess. Nanny goddess.

Science Museum. Why are you skeptical about the things scientists say? Because they claim the universe is expanding but when I visited my childhood hometown, everything was smaller.

"Is it me, or is Jasper Johns a genius?" "Über-genius, Larry. Über!"

'Are you sure this is authentic ancient Indian art?'

"Oh, mournful and terrible engine of horror and crime—of agony and of death, not asparagus again!"

Couple Sitting in Front of A Sunset.

'No, Timmy, we are not supposed to connect them.'

'I can make out the nude, but I don't see the submarine.'

'Are we there yet?'

They don't feed the animals in here very well, do they!

The Rise of Modern Art

Jackson Pollock: abstract; Picasso: cubism; Bobby: eight year old