galleries

Rain, rain and more rain. But sometimes you need a day like this. The Louvre will be more or less deserted today. He thinks of similarly deserted galleries he has visited on such days, galleries which have favorite pictures - Chicago Art Institute, MOMA in New York, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, all those little galleries in downtown San Francisco, the National Gallery, the Tate. These are places not for the snotty viewing of pictures, but for letting the soul rest a bit, and then start to edge out toward some new discoveries. So the Louvre it is.