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 HN> When they first signed him I thought
 HN> "match made in hell"...and it looks like
 HN> I'm gonna be right on the money with this 
 HN> one...Bobby can't manage to keep his mouth
 HN> shut long enough to find out how to manage
 HN> the Sox...and the fans can't stand having
 HN> a Yankee leading the Sox down the primrose
 HN> path so to speak.

I think the season is down the tubes, and they
should start looking for next season right now.
I hear Terry Francona might be available. It
would be cool, and even better, make the
announcement on 2/14.

 ->  HN> got Gauguin to show this year, and when you
 ->  HN> factor in the Seattle Asian Art Museum as an
 ->  HN> extension of SAM (which it is) I think we'd stand
 ->  HN> up respectably against anyone.
 HN> See...Milwaukee didn't get Gauguin!! 

It gets Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough before you do,
though (the only other US museum that gets the exhibition
is MFA Houston).

 -> I was pleased by the Asian museum, but as I'd recently
 -> been to the MFA Boston, the Freer, and the Palace Museum
 -> in Taipei, I thought "medium-size potatoes."
 HN> It is considered one of the most significant
 HN> collections outside of the Orient (I'm told)

It does beat Milwaukee by a country mile in this regard -
but not the oft-surprising Kansas City, though the displays
there are pretty skimpy.

 HN> and it has a huge amount that is not "on
 HN> display" (which always makes me mad)

They just can't do it, physically. What irritates me is
that the exhibitions aren't rotated frequently enough;
I figure that regular rotations would keep the curators
busy and bring more visitors in the door.

 -> You know who has a surprisingly wonderful museum? Kansas
 -> City. I think it's called Nelson-Atkins, and it has one
 -> of the top 5 Asian collections in the country - though
 -> unfortunately only a couple rooms of stuff is on display.
 HN> There's that beer money again!(grin)

Beef money, too.

 HN> All in all I like our area's museum
 HN> resources..both Tacoma and Seattle
 HN> and the U of Washington has a good
 HN> one as well (the Burke).

Oh, for sure.

By the way, I checked on size of collections (not that that
is a foolproof metric) and found that someone had done the
work for me already -
www.city-data.com/forum/city-vs-city/465243-largest-art-museums-us-6.html

Originally Posted by Drewcifer
 I made a list of some art museums by the size of their collection,
 obviously size and quality are not the same thing:

 Metropolitan Museum of Art - 2,000,000+
 Museum of Fine Arts Boston - 450,000
 Museum of Modern Art - 300,000+
 Art Institute of Chicago - 260,000
 Philadelphia Museum of Art - 225,000
 California Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco) - 124,000
 National Gallery of Art - 110,000
 Los Angeles County Museum of Art - 100,000
 Baltimore Museum of Art - 90,000
 Minneapolis Institute of Art - 80,000
 Denver Art Museum - 68,000
 Museum of Fine Arts Houston - 62,000
 Detroit Institute of Art - 60,000
 Indianapolis Museum of Art - 54,000
 Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford) - 50,000
 Cleveland Museum of Art - 43,000
 Portland Art Museum - 42,000
 New Orleans Museum of Art - 40,000
 Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh) - 35,000
 Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City) - 33,500
 St Louis Art Museum - 30,000
 Toledo Museum of Art - 30,000
 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - 27,000
 Milwaukee Art Museum - 25,000
 Munson Williams Proctor Institute (Utica, NY) - 25,000
 Seattle Art Museum - 25,000
 Birmingham Museum of Art - 24,000
 Dallas Museum of Art - 24,000
 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond) - 23,000
 Phoenix Art Museum -18,000
 Utah Museum of Fine Arts - 17,000
 Corcoran Gallery (Washington DC) - 16,000
 Speed Art Museum (Louisville) - 12,000
 High Museum of Art (Atlanta) - 11,000
 Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha) - 11,000
 Memorial Art Gallery (Rochester, NY) - 11,000
 Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) - 11,000
 
 I couldn't find numbers for the J Paul Getty museum in LA or
 the Guggenheim in New York. I made 10,000 pieces the cut off.
 This isn't all inclusive, I probably missed some museums but
 I will add them if anyone mentions them. This list is a work
 in progress.

Missing from the list are (in thousands)
Currier 12
Walters 28
Brooklyn 1500
Getty - said to be over 1000
San Diego doesn't seem to divulge (probably in the 25-50 range)

and one admits of course that these numbers are sometimes
inflated with prints, letters, and photos individually counted.

It is kind of a coincidence that the two we are talking about,
SAM and MAM, are about the same size.

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  3 1/2 c  Flour
    2/3 c  Sugar
      4 ts Baking powder
      1 ts Baking soda
      1 ts Cinnamon
      1 ts Nutmeg
    1/2 ts Salt
      1 ts Grated lemon peel
      2    Eggs
  1 1/3 c  Buttermilk
    1/2 c  Vegetable oil
      2 c  Peeled, finely chopped pears
      2 tb Sugar
    1/2 ts Each nutmeg and cinnamon

  Preheat oven to 400F. Blend in a bowl the flour, sugar, baking powder,
  soda, spices, salt and lemon peel. In another bowl, moosh together the
  eggs, buttermilk and oil. Combine contents of the bowls. Fold in the
  pears.

  Spoon the batter 2/3 full into greased muffin tins. (This recipe should
  make about 24 muffins.) Mix 2 Tb sugar with 1/2 ts each cinnamon and
  nutmeg. Sprinkle this over the top of the muffins, then bake 20-25
  minutes.

  Source:  Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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