Places to Go

I get antsy from time to time and feel like doing stuff... something... anything... So I started reading up on things happening around the bay area and places to visit. Here's a shortlist of some things that caught my attention:

Museums:

This is a limited 3-month engagement at the Legion of Honor up in SF. Only 1 of 3 total stops and includes 50-some Monets from various collections around the world. Normal admission price to Legion of Honor is $10, which gets you access to a decent museum with works from Rembrandt, Monet, El Greco, Kandinsky, and other crap that I don't care much about. They supposedly have one of the casts of Rodin's Thinker. It will cost $15 for access to the Monet exhibit as well. So it's like $5 for the Monet bonus. It's not common to have this many Monets in one place, aside from the Musee Marmottan in Paris and MFA in Boston. I like impressionist paintings... I'm so there.

Stanfurd (rhymes with turd) is so rich, they have their own fine arts museum. The Cantor Arts Center has the world's second largest Rodin collection (first being Musee Rodin in Paris). Free admission makes it a sweet deal. Go for the Rodin Gates of Hell and Burghers of Calais, and maybe stick around for the free art in the center (don't know if it's any good though, so I expect to be disappointed).