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     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
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Howdy Michael!

->  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.
-> 
I'm grumpy...the BoSox beat us 
two in a row...Lester and 
Beckett both ripped us up...we
only scored one run in 18 innings.
We had our chances, but had no luck
and no good calls from the umps. ;-(

->  ->  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).
->
Seattle gets it's share of choice
plums...last year we had a Picasso
exhibit that was top notch (if you
like Picasso).
 
->  -> 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.
->
I like the Seattle Asian Art Museum, and
it's really in a nice location...and you 
can even go looking for Bruce Lee's grave
when you're in Seattle!!
 
->  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.
->
Yep...I'm right there with you on that!
 
->  -> 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.
->
And salt mine money too I think?
 
->  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've been to the Portland Museum several
times and maybe they're hiding another
whole museum somewhere cause the one 
I've been to is nice but tis a far cry
from being bigger than the SAM.
 
->  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.
->
I've been to the Guggenheim in NY, but not the 
Getty in LA...mostly because I try
to avoid LA.
 
-> 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)
->
It might be because there are 
so many museums in San Diego.
Not sure if they are "interconnected"
or not.
 
-> and one admits of course that these numbers are sometimes
-> inflated with prints, letters, and photos individually counted.
->
At least we have the same 25K that 
Milwaukee has...(grin)
 
-> It is kind of a coincidence that the two we are talking about,
-> SAM and MAM, are about the same size.
->
Yes Mam, I'll take Sam!
chat with you soon!
ha
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