On the way back home from my sister's a couple of weeks ago I visited the Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton. The museum recently reopened after renovation and expansion. Two people at the museum told me I had to check out the basement restrooms. I only went into the men's room. Artist Sandy Skoglund's had turned the interior surfaces into Liquid Origins, Fluid Dreams.
While impressive, the men's room was not the museum's highlight. The highlight was seeing Edward Hopper's Pretty Penny. Hopper was a native of Nyack. The house in which I lived in Nyack was only a couple blocks up the street from Hopper's. Across the street from where I lived was Pretty Penny which, for many years was home to Nyack's own Helen Hayes, Charles MacArthur and their son James. Rosie O'Donnell lived in Pretty Penny, which she surrounded with a 12-foot high brick wall and even higher juniper shrubs, when I moved there.
Ah, the Smith College Museum of Art's men's room - a place very few Smith students ever go!
Posted by: Jen | 31 August 2006 at 03:42 PM