art galleries- neue galerie. the guggenheim. the metropolitan museum.

the bookstore at the neue galerie museum for german and austrian art.

looking out the window at the guggenheim.

earlier we saw the haunting civil war photography show at the met.  the highlight was a series of over 30 3d photos which one can see through a 19th century 3d viewer.

there was a picture of lincoln and general mcclellan during a tense battlefield meeting under the eaves of a tent. seeing it in stereoscopic photography gave the eerie feeling of being almost actually present at the scene.  a voyeur peeking under the tent flaps, witnessing their famously strained interaction.

two great civil war books:

• the killer angels by michael shaara, 
• the personal memoirs of ulysses s grant.

i'm afraid this is how i'm feeling about florida right now- not the people of the state, of course- but apparently the justice system allows a grown man with a gun to stalk an innocent unarmed teenager, provoke a confrontation, and kill him with impunity. perhaps this could happen anywhere, but the stand your ground law and others seem partially to blame.