Gettin' Getty Again!

Meg and I headed up to The Getty Museum for the second time since coming to Los Angeles to check out the current exhibit of Rembrant paintings. Such a beautiful location, I could just lounge there all day... we took some photos, had lunch, slept on the lawns near the garden. Really nice time... and such a deal. You pay $7.00 for parking, and the exhibits are all free. Positively European! I am always surprised by the simplicity of what people like to do. You give them a view worth a second or two, some sun and a terraza where you can have a beer, and suddenly, 90% of the folks are in a great mood. The Getty is like that - a lot of the people come up there to see the work on display, of course, but there is a greater portion of people who are there just to be in that environment, in that space. I just love the way that the very modern approach to architecture fuses with some very European and old ideas... down to the simplest details, the open spaces "just for sitting" and use of plants that reflect the traditions of terrazas all over Europe, etc. That is, quite apart from the fact that you always feel as though you are in a scene from an old Star Trek episode featuring some sort of utopia. I kept looking around for the doomed "mystery extra" on our tour of the galleries! Ha!