Boarding Gate 101

The primary reason why I wanted to visit the Art Institute of Chicago is to see the painting of Grant Wood called American Gothic . So I was disappointed to know after talking to the concierge that the iconic work of art, which shows two farmers in Iowa - a woman and a man with a pitchfork - was on loan somewhere else. Still the visit to the museum was not a disappointment at all. I got to see another favorite painting of mine and then some.  I only had the opportunity to visit the museum on my second time in Chicago, last fall. We were exploring the Magnificent Mile and the Millennium Park all morning, and we were able to swung by the museum after lunch, after visiting the Bean once again.  The Art Institute of Chicago is the second-largest art museum in the United States, second only to the Met. It was founded in 1866, and found its home at a Beaux-Art building along Michigan Avenue in Chicago [ 1 ]. We came in through the new wing that was added t...

I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York the second time I was there. The museum, also known as 'The Met,' is located along the Museum Mile in Fifth Avenue , just adjacent to Central Park . Vincent van Gogh's Irises The Met is one of the largest museums in the world, with more than 2 million pieces of art, paintings, sculptures and works from diverse periods of history and locations. It is also the second most visited museum in the world, second only to the Louvre.  An Etruscan chariot As the museum is very large it would be impossible to explore it in just half a day, so I concentrated my explorations to the subjects that I am interested of: Greek and Roman art, medieval art, ancient Egypt, European paintings, and a little of Asian art.  A copy of St. Augustine's City of God

Vincent van Gogh's Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat , Oil on canvass, 1887 Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

Hailed as the Dutch post-impressionist Vincent van Gogh's magnum opus  [ 1 ] , the Starry Night depicts a night time view outside his window at the sanitarium in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in France. Oil on canvas, 1889. On display at the Museum of Modern Art, New York May 23, 2010