Last Day at the PGC!

Easter & Kids Day

1700. That's the number of visitors who came through the museum today. On Easter no less! I'm assuming that we were one of the few places open today. Because of the holiday, none of the Italians were working and I was recruited to be Kid's Day Capo thanks to my art ed background and stellar Italian (to be read with not a small amount of sarcasm). The concept for the art project was not my own but I was responsible for explaining it and for taking the kids on a tour through the museum in a way that related to the project. Most of the fifteen children were Italian but there were a few English speakers as well. This meant I had to explain everything once in Italian and then again in English! It went surprisingly well!

Working Late

Since I've been in Venice, a number of works in the museum have been in the town of Vercelli for an exposition called Peggy Guggenheim and Surrealist Imagery. This week the works returned home and a few of us interns got involved in the re-installation of a number of paintings. Dr. Rylands was, of course, there to oversee everything and he gave me permission to photograph the process!


Dr. Rylands oversees the hanging of an Arp


Measuring the space between two paintings


Adjusting Ernst's The Kiss


Dr. Rylands and Eric hang a painting


Leenie takes a break from label mounting


Hanging a label


Dr. Rylands shows Jesse how to adjust the Mondrian


Sandra installing the Arp


Cinzia in the midst of the ordered chaos

This is fabulous