Ueno Park also has art galleries. I went to the Museum of Western Art and did the whole thing in 25 minutes. I like to maximize pleasure by compacting looking at amazing stuff worth billions into a very short time. I glug rather than sip.
Gates of Hell by Rodin
He must have sold a fake to Stanford
A room of Monets - A bloat of hippos
I don't like sponge cake
I find it a great metric of how nice living now is that anybody can wander around rooms where priceless masterpieces are hanging on the walls.
A deceit of lapwings
It is an excellent collection covering essentially European art from 14th to 20th centuries. The place is almost empty – I suppose all the art lovers are outside drinking sake under the cherry trees.
There is also a special exhibition of some French guy called Hubert Robert of whom I have never heard. I do his bit in a record-breaking 6mins 27 secs.
Who he?
