One of the disadvantages of warm summer days is that my apartment gets stiflingly hot. No, I don't have AC, hardly anyone in seattle does. Thus, driven out of my apartment on a hot Sunday, I took an airconditioned bus to the Seattle Art Museum, where the indoor temperature is positively arctic.

The last time I went to the SAM, I thought it was conspicuously lacking a European Impressionism section. So as if to indulge me, it has now a special exhibit on European impressionists and the art that inspired them. It was a pretty good exhibit, with the usual gang of impressionists, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Pissaro, Cassat, etc., as well as some old masters paintings. Unfortunately pictures aren't allowed other than in the lobby, so I couldn't share some of the more interesting paintings.

My last stop in the museum was the modern and contemporary art section where I stared at the Jackson Pollock painting again. Somehow Pollock's paintings resonate a lot with me, whereas I know many people who dismiss them as merely drippings of paint, and not really art--there's that differing perceptions of beauty thing again. I remember reading a Vonnegut novel about abstract expressionism... I can't remember the title anymore.

Anyway, after the refreshing visit to the museum, a short trip to Pike Place Market to have a piroshky. Yum. By the time I got home, the clouds have started rolling back in, and the weather will start cooling down again.

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