We took him to the Tate Modern and the Science Museum in London. He's been to The Museum of Contemporary Art here in LA once, the Getty twice and the Page Museum(La Brea Tar Pits) once. That's it! It's something, but still.
Anyway, we did manage to get out 2 weekends ago and took a trip to the LA County Museum of Art. I don't think I'd been there since high school, Hubs and The Boy had never been there and we were accompanied by an art historian friend of mine who actually used to work there. It was awesome!
The Boy's favorite part was the bit that we saw first
Our art historian friend told us about some crazy Spanish cats and explained the room with all the Baby Jesus's, but the best part - in my opinion, anyway - was the French Impressionists - at least I think they're Impressionists. Monet, Cezanne... those guys. Anyway, a trip to The Getty a year ago led us to find Make Van Gogh's Bed, a book much loved by The Boy that narrates famous works of art in childhood verse and makes something tactile within the paintings - fabric on Van Gogh's unmade bed, Degas' ballerinas tutus, Monet's lilies and, as observed by The Boy, Cezanne's fuzzy peaches.
And then, as has become our tradition on our rare cultural excursions, we hit up the gift shop. This time we bought a block puzzle with 6 different self portraits painted by Van Gogh and another book by the creators of Make Van Gogh's Bed; Catch Picasso's Rooster. The Boy insisted on carrying the bag himself.
So The Boy isn't super keen on the puzzle, we've had to put it away since he mostly likes peeling the picutures off the cubes, but he LOVES the book. Yay!
weird. i commented earlier and it didn't post! wah! i was asking if you had cable with a million channels like we do- including music channels that play whatever genre you like... i play classical music every Sunday for several hours in the morning. and if we're eating in the dining room (next to the tv area), i'll play it as well. Lovie ADORES ALL music so far, including classical!
ReplyDeleteWe do have cable and we listen to music on the weekends - though it's usually Hubs' Radiohead or whatever. I have a few classical CD's and some French nursery rhymes that we don't listen to nearly enough. All I know is that, like Lovie, The Boy loves his music. He especially loves anything with drums. Oh dear :/
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