Five Floors of Buddhist Artifacts

What:  Rubin Museum
Where:  150 W 17th Street, Chelsea
Café:  Possible afterwork rendezvouz point.  Serving good tea, good wine.  Open to 7 or 9 most nights.  Odd movies shown at night.
Appeal of Museum  If you are not interested in Buddhism or Asian paintings, nil.
Size of Collection:  Too big to see all of it in 90 minutes.
Quality of Annotations: Above average.
Better Than Asia Society?:  Probably better.
Staff friendliness: High.  They insisted that I should only pay $5 admission because surely I was “an artist or student or something, right?”
Prurience:  One interesting sexual position.  Also one painted depiction of semen being transformed into projectile menstruation by a voracious deity.  (Both on the third floor.). 
Bottom line:  I liked it quite a bit.  I had sort of a blood sugar freakout and had to flee after an hour but I don’t think the paintings did it to me.

Comments

[Jarrett]

I was doing the SF Asian Art Museum at about the same time, but it sounds like you came out ahead.

Congrats on still being able to do the starving-artist look at 40!