From the Floor

Warning: this is one of those blogging-about-blogging posts. Stop reading now if navel gazing isn't your thing. (But before you do, I need to ask. Why are you reading blogs if it's not?)

OK, so is there anyone still looking at this page? Yes? No? My site stats tells me that there is, but I don't know if I would bother coming back to see what's new when there hasn't been anything new in weeks, and weeks, and weeks, and....

Anyway, on Sunday I said that I may have some interesting things to say this week. Maybe I still do, but I don't know that they'll show up here after all. I'm a wee bit overextended right now and don't seem to have the excess mental energy needed to finish a few of the things I want to write. I've been focusing on other things lately, and they're starting to pay off. My Gold status in the American Airlines frequent flyer program came through this week, for instance.

So, let me take the really easy way out and throw all my current opinions out here as bullet points rather than writing them up as thoughtful, reasoned pieces:

• The permanent collection rehang at the Tate Modern: underwhelming (the whole sort-of-historical, sort-of-thematic curatorial concept didn't really work for me)
• The Barnes Foundation: overwhelming (the number of Renoirs, that is)
• The Renzo Piano addition to the Pierpont Morgan: underwhelming (and let's all hope he does much better for the Whitney)

I've still got something I want to write up in depth about wall texts based on my recent visits to Tate Modern and the Barnes Foundation, but seeing as there are probably only three people in the world who care about that topic, I'm going to let it sit for a while.

Thanks for checking in. I'll be back when I'm back. See you then.