[Sca-cooks] The Cloisters in NYC - was, Attention Adamantius and anyone else....

[AEllin Olafs dotter]

Huh? Not in my circles - I grew up calling both the opera and the museum 
the Met. All in context. And when I was in High School I used to drop by 
the museum after school (just down the block) and knew (and sang with) 
musicians who played at the opera... this wasn't unfamiliarity.

They finally got real and put up signs that say "Sixth Ave." for the 
sanity of the visitors...

The Cloisters is a bit of a hike from anyplace else you plan to be. I 
know, it's in my neighborhood... wonderful as it is, if time is limited 
that ride on the A, even though it's a great express, is a time eater. 
But there's nothing quite like standing in a Real Medieval Cloister 
Garden... or on the terrace, looking out at the Hudson... Oh, yeah, 
there's great art, there, too...  The ambiance is amazing, though. It 
doesn't feel like a museum. It feels like a monastery... chapel, 
cloister, you know that hundreds of men over  hundreds of years lived 
and worked and prayed while they walked these paths... (OK, that's 
easier when you don't arrive together with the school tours...   ;-) )

AEllin

Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

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> I have to agree with various people's urgings that Nichola check out 
> the Cloisters, but I also wasn't sure about time restraints, and had 
> remembered she was trying to stay downtown. You pretty much have to 
> set aside an entire day for the Cloisters (although a "double major" 
> visit to the Cloisters and the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the same 
> ticket -- The Met is an unrelated opera house; it's almost as bad as 
> calling Sixth Avenue the Avenue of the Americas just because of those 
> silly signs along its length when everyone knows they're dumb).
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> Adamantius
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