I went to Members Preview Day this past Saturday at the Denver Art Museum (The DAM) to see Matisse And Friends, a new major art exhibition at the museum. I was very impressed with the exhibit, and almost fainted dead away when one of the guards told me that it was okay - and even encouraged, no less - to take photographs in the gallery. Most of the time at these special exhibits, if you try to take a photograph, they beat you senseless and then throw you right out the door on your head. But since the paintings are on loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C, it is actually the citizens of the U.S. who own them, and therefore we can do whatever we want. Which is one reason why the exhibit is furnished with chairs, couches, and other furniture, to let everyone sit down, relax, and enjoy just looking at the paintings. I imagine that if you wanted to, you could even take a Matisse home and hang it on your wall for 6 or 8 weeks, if you just asked. And no, I didn't ask.
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