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Museum Feet

9th April 2004

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Cutting the Cloisters off the list. Saw all the medieval art I can stand at the Metropolitan Museum yesterday. It says a lot about our western culture that 500 years ago we were intensely interested in worshipping the bones of holy people. Christianity’s roots are shallow, it’s faith bizarrely attenuated through practices that evolved out of illiteracy. This may be a “glass is half empty” assessment, but what can I say? Mel Gibson drove me to it.

Icons and reliquaries… there’s a corollary of Gresham’s law at work here.

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1 On April 9th, 2024, Leslie said:
Frank, The Cloisters is fabulous and slightly mysterious, a place of calm in a frantic island. Holy relics aside, you should go!
2 On April 10th, 2024, Frank Paynter said:
Thanks for the encouragement Leslie! We made it up there and found a part of Manhattan that was quite different from where we’ve stomping around the rest of the week.