Paris 1900

So a couple weekends ago Wife and I decide to go up... no, wait. She hates "big cities". I decide, and force her to go along, up to THE CITY for a special exhibit at the Museum of Art up there. We'd heard about it on NPR and in various newspapers around. I thought that it'd be something that she'd really enjoy, being enamoured with all things French, though not specificly this era. And hey, it's enlightening, dammit.
So we pick a weekend and I force her to go. Yes, it's a bit pricy, but what isn't these days. I know roughly where it is, and I'd gone up to the city for an ETC demo the previous week, so I knew the general area. However I'm trusting my city map inset of 'downtown' for specifics. It works and we get there like I knew where it was. We even splurge on one of those narrated tour gizmos with pre-recorded commentary on selected items in the exhibit.
The exhibit was kinda cool. There were a LOT of artists that I'd never heard of, but that's not a bad thing. It was all "fin de siecle" stuff that was the transition from the romantic and naturalistic movements of the late 19th century, but before the structure of the Deco period. They had a lot of Alphonse Mucha, who did the famous Sarah Bernhardt JOB cigarette paper ads (no, not Sandra Bernhardt. Sarah's beautiful.). Of course the climax of the exhibit was a whole room of original posters from Cheret and Toulouse-Lautrec. Those guys I'd heard of :o)
So a fun time was had by all, even though Wife was spent, and in quite a bit of pain, by the end of the day from all the walking and standing.
We also drove past the Oklahoma City Memorial, the one from the Murrah Federal Building bombing. The one with the chairs. We didn't stop and visit, but it is on my To Do list, though not Wifes ("I don't need another excuse to start crying my eyes out!").
I also want to do the Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. But, again, Wife has no interest in that. But I've heard it's great, with a lot of original Remington sculptures.