Art and Cars

Sunday is a blur already. It rained on and off like mad but somehow we made it to the British Museum. A wanted to see the Assyrian collections and N and I were along for the ride. This building is incredible. This is the entrance area after you go through the main entry hall. It's enormous. The second pic gives you a better idea for scale. Somehow I think I posted about this museum the last time we were here. No matter, it's still amazing. And almost completely free.

I wanted to go back to the museum's library, which is also huge. I could spend a week in just the library alone and feel like I hadn't seen all the displays. Here's just one minor item, a fragment of a mosaic of fish that was a gift from a pope. See explanation below.

After that we ran over to the national gallery, and ran through that. I realized as I whizzed by the paintings, just how ahead of their times some of the artists were. This Lucas Cranach the Elder, for instance, is so stylized. It made me wonder how conscious they were about innovation. If you squint at this portrait, the lighter parts, her body and face, and the white parts of her sleeves are more like abstract shapes floating on the dark background. I can't exactly articulate what I mean but anyway it just struck me how modern it seemed.

It had stopped raining by the time we exited the national gallery onto Trafalgar Square and headed to the main event of the day.

Car Spotting! Note the little rainbow between the red car and the bus.

The rainbow lingered as we neared Sloane Street.

Here's N under a sign for either Basil Street or Sloane. I can't remember.

The black car revved for N. He will have tons of footage to post when we get home. 

I'm sitting on the ledge of the Gucci display window where they thoughtfully provided freeloaders like me with excellent wifi. I have a hunch, though, it was unintentional.

And on our way back to the flat the rain started in earnest again. Who knew it rained so much here?!