Manhandling Monet’s Water Lilies
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 10.08.09 | 10:03 AM ET
At the Onion’s version of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the paintings are fair game for touching. From its story about how the struggling museum now allows patrons get “up close and personal”:
“You can’t grasp the brilliance of a great painting just by looking at it,” said Phil Brehm, 32, who acknowledged that he hadn’t set foot inside a museum since a mandatory field trip in high school. “To truly appreciate fine art, you need to be able to run your fingers over its surface and explore its range of textures.”
“Or just rub your face all over it, like I do,” Brehm added.
The art for this one is fantastic.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor of World Hum.
