After a yummy cheeseburger for lunch at Billy Goat Tavern (a famous Chicago eatery), I met K at the National Gallery of Art nearby for a quick visit before my next conference session. Initially, we went to see the exhibition "In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographs from Corot to Monet." However, I was pleasantly surprised by the modern and contemporary art in the gallery collections nearby. I wish I had more time to really take it all in though because there were many pieces by some of my favorite artists...Pollock, Rothko, O'Keefe, Picasso, Magritte, Matisse, Warhol, among others. I think my favorite part was the room with 5 large Rothko pieces in it...I had to just sit on the bench and enjoy that for a moment!
Tonight we're going to have dinner with a couple of K's friends from college.
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