I don't know why? Let me be clearer: I just hate Boca. Once I had to visit someone who lived in Boca. To get to her "neighborhood," I went through seventeen gates, was carded forty-six times, and was then permitted to park in her driveway and walk inside her front doors, which were approximately seventy-three feet tall. You can imagine this was the most welcoming experience of my entire life.
The general feeling was, keep out! So thereafter, I did.
Also, I don't like Bocarchitecture. Again, let me be clearer: I hate Bocarchitecture. I'm making up that phrase. That's why I'm using it twice like that.
However. I have an open-mind. I visited the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Mizner Park on Sunday. And my experience was so beautiful! I loved the museum (even though its slogan, "Minutes from the beach. Miles from conventional." needs work); Steve and I strolled around like it was ours alone, even though there was a nice collection of folks also visiting. The employees were uncommonly and genuinely friendly - it was refreshing. Perhaps my mind re: Boca has officially changed...
I took these pictures of my experience; not too many...just enough:
It's the holiday season / With the whoop-de-do and hickory dock:
La Amphitheater:
Do not be fooled. These are not ordinary-sized coffee cups. They are HUGE:
No photography was permitted inside the museum. But they didn't have a policy against taking pictures in the restrooms! How's that for sneaky. These Kohler sinks sat above the counter. Don't be fooled, darlings! I love the Kohler brand. Those candy-colored advertisements have definitely gotten the better of me...(although, this is probably too modern for my taste). Also, I think it would be neat if my name was Madge Kohler, but that's another story:
Is Madge Kohler in the museum or out?
On behalf of all folks who have been, at one time or another, close-minded re: Boca, I urge you to visit their art museum on a blustery winter day. It will change you, and for $4, it's completely worth every penny.
7 comments:
fancy schmancy ampitheatre. and nice sneakiness with the bathroom photo.
thank you for not photographing a toilet. that would have been strange.
or a napkin dispensor/dispenser/diaschepnsoir (whatever)
Madge Kohler, eh?
---MB
I was thinking about toilets, though.
It's probably better left unsaid.
I will post about it one of these days.
Great sink photography!
I think any word you make up should be used twizice. TWIZICE!!
I want to get married in a museum.
And...I wish you could take the pictures ;o)
I will now spend the rest of the day imagining those giant cups filled with gallons of coffee.
My ass is dragging today.
for real tits, i need to bathe in a coffee cup like that each day.
fuuuuck, it's 11:15. why am i not in bed yet???
i like when cities i hate surprise me. i've never heard good things about boca, this is somewhat refreshing!
ehh... maybe.
I am still staunchly anti-Boca. It will be hard to change that.
I like a few things in the Boca area, but I call them Delray. I think they are in Delray, actually, but even if they were in Boca, I would say they were in Delray. Like the American Orchid Society. I recommend a visit there - beautiful.
I may try this place and call it Delray. Thank you for the rec. :)
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