I was playing around in the Street View interface to the…
I was playing around in the Street View interface to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and I knew they had a lot of Sargents, but I walked into that room and it was like that clip of Bowman’s last transmission from 2010:
My God. It’s full of Sargents.
And not just Sargents, but important Sargents, like Lady with a Rose, Madam X, and Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes. And three more huge, awesome portraits. All in one room.
It’s totally not like being there. But it’s also not like just looking at photos of the paintings online. Because I know that that room exists. A room open to the public. A room people are in right now.
A room I could be in.
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Tags: john singer sargent, google street view, metropolitan museum of art.
