Saturday, Stanford Museum
I have not been to the Stanford Museum since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that jostled me up to Seattle and closed the museum for almost five years. In the renovation, the Gods of Art tripled the size of the museum but maintained its intimate nature. It seems that every graduate of Stanford has donated at least one very nice piece of sculpture including a gigantic semi-peeled flying banana that takes up an entire interior courtyard. (Nope. Not kidding.) I am a sucker for small museums and this is a well currated space with few people. The lighting was extraordinary. Oh, and admission is free. A huge hinge for the museum is a very large collection of Rodin sculptures including a vast sculpture garden and a truly handsome bust of Anna-Elizabeth de Noaille s with her magnificent nose and hooded eyes. (This link is the second of two works – this one at the Met.) There is nothing more lovely than a woman with an interesting nose, but at the time the subject was so appalled by her o