Brooklyn, Day 3 3/21/19

  Today was a totally-Brooklyn day. We hopped on the subway and spent the entire day at the Brooklyn Museum. We "did" 2 floors and then took a break for lunch at Lincoln Station Cafe. (Mark raved about the cheeseburger and Barbara had a kale salad.) Then, we went back to the museum and "did" some more and took a coffee break, too.
  There is an impressive amount of women artists in the Museum, although that included a Feminist Art Exhibit. We lingered over Judy Chicago's permanent installation of a 'last supper' featuring 39 plates and table cloths devoted to women from myth and history. Every plate was done to represent each woman's vagina and personality. It was quite arresting.
   We were also taken by the large Della Robbia that was recently restored.
   We spoke with two women art restorers who were working on huge Assyrian tablets. The apprentice was taking off old plaster with a tiny dentist-type instrument. So painstaking.
   It is a great museum.
   Afterwards we got some more take out and came home to eat. We walked about 5 miles today - museums do require a lot more walking than one expects.