AN ARTFUL DAY

Today our plan was to go to the Boston Fine Arts Museum and then to the Trinity Church, Old South Church and Boston Public Library.  

We took the Blue Line, a sleek, new subway that runs from the airport to the middle of historic Boston, and transferred to the older, funkier green line

to get to the museum.  We made it to the BFA and we stayed there so long that by the time we got to Trinity, it was closed for the day. The BFA has a small, but interesting collection of musical instruments.  

This is probably why I just happened to meet my friend,  Arthur Haas from New York, in the gift shop.  He had been there and played the harpsichord today, and I missed it!  

Anyway, they have a really good collection of Impressionists,

a small collection of art glass,

some Tiffany and La Farge,

a lot of European pieces, and this interesting piece squeezed in one of the rooms.  

This is the room. 

I mostly wanted to go to Trinity to see the Lafarge windows, but we did see some of his work at the museum anyway. We went into the old South church, which is a beautiful building, there may be more interesting on the outside and the inside. And finally we went to Boston library, which is a real treasure. It has murals by John Singer Sargent, who I didn't even know did murals, and whose work I would never recognize by looking at the style. Then they have another set of murals by Edwin Abbe which tell the tale of Sir Galahad. 

I have been eating everything in sight on this trip and I noticed that I am getting tired, but I think it's just all the extra week I'm carrying around with me. Today I had a nice salad at the museum then we went to an interesting place for dinner which is kind of like Jack's urban eats . It was called Dig It.