The Abuses of Wax, Manet & Degas

Kedrin and I met up today to go to The Strand, and then met up with a couple other friends to go to the Met.

Strand Therapy is sometimes exactly what a person needs.

They are the only store that puts out ladders for people to go through the top shelves and they are unconcerned if someone falls and kills themself, or some other disaster. (In contrast, if I stand on a damn milk crate in the grocery store the employees freak out if they see it. Says it's dangerous.  What the hell else are those milk crates for??)

So anyhow I went through the entire art technique section and the entire medieval section and got a few cool books.  One is about techniques of medieval art and has a (short) chapter called "The Abuses of Wax".

I had to get it.

I also told the cashier all about it and he now wants to read it.

(Basically, putting wax on frescoes is a horrible idea and the author vehemently dislikes wax for this purpose.)

The Manet/Degas show is wonderful, but it was so, SO crowded.  I'll have to go back at a more reasonable time to really see it properly. It's a good thing I live here and am a Met member!