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NNadir

(36,669 posts) Sat Oct 4, 2025, 05:57 PM 15 hrs ago

I definitely wore my wife out today. When we got home from art galleries, she said that for her upcoming birthday...

...among her gifts, she would like Charles Manson coconut brandy.

What she meant:

I wore her out.

We went to the Zimmerli Museum in New Brunswick to see the wonderful...Native American Art Exhibit.

It appears they were setting up for a panel talk, Topographies of Dissent: Opening Reception & Panel Conversation (The Zimmerli has one of the world's best collections of Soviet era dissident - non-conformist, as opposed to the officially sanctioned Stalin era "socialist realist" - art.)

I wanted to stay for the panel discussion (free wine afterwards at the reception), but she said, "Listen Bub, I have a daily long commute; I'm exhausted and I can't spend all of my free time on academic type talks." (She works in academia; so there's that.)

OK, if you think you should drink Charles Manson drinks, you do deserve a rest.

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I definitely wore my wife out today. When we got home from art galleries, she said that for her upcoming birthday... (Original Post) NNadir 15 hrs ago OP

I love the Zimmerli !! IbogaProject 15 hrs ago #1

The Zimmerli is indeed, a great museum. One of the great benefits of living in New Jersey, is access to great art. NNadir 14 hrs ago #2

I first caught my now wife's attention IbogaProject 14 hrs ago #3

You went to Canada -- and came *back* ?? WHY ???? eppur_se_muova 14 hrs ago #4

OMG! Sounds like the kind of mental hiccup I suffer from! some_of_us_are_sane 13 hrs ago #5

IbogaProject

(5,074 posts)

1. I love the Zimmerli !!

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Sat Oct 4, 2025, 06:07 PM

15 hrs ago

It is a great museum. I was suprised by the Newark Museum of Art as well.

NNadir

(36,669 posts)

2. The Zimmerli is indeed, a great museum. One of the great benefits of living in New Jersey, is access to great art.

Reply to IbogaProject (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 4, 2025, 06:41 PM

14 hrs ago

The Met, the Modern, the Whitney, the Guggenheim in NY - and one I definitely need to get to before I die - the Neue, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Barnes Foundation, the Rodin museum, the Princeton University Museum (soon to reopen on Halloween), and finally, the museums we visited recently in the Hudson Valley, the Bard Museum of Art, the Vassar Museum of Art.

My first serious date (where I actually thought I had a chance with her) with my wife was at the Modern. I ran into her on campus, after not seeing her for a while, and we chatted, and I mentioned the show at the Modern I was going to see, and she told me she'd love to go but couldn't afford it. I told her I'd treat, for the "pleasure of your company," and things went uphill from there. It was one of the many "best days of my life" I shared with her.

IbogaProject

(5,074 posts)

3. I first caught my now wife's attention

Reply to NNadir (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 4, 2025, 07:11 PM

14 hrs ago

Describing catching a sunset on the Met's Roof. Sadly they are now going to build it up in height. It was just above the Central Park Tree canopy.

Another for your list is The Frick Collection. An old Guilded Age mansion w an intact art colection. https://www.frick.org/