Art and Gyros

Finally made it to the MFAH for the opening of a few exhibits -- one on Diane Arbus (photography from mid-60's) and one on Avant-Garde Art in Latin America. They opened last night for a Members-Only party, but we passed on that and did today's family open-house. The photos were really cool -- lots of eccentric subjects like transvestites, circus side-show acts, strippers, and then normal scenes on the streets of NYC / ethnic neighborhoods. Lots of passion and emotion captured. Of course, the boys were bored...

They had a better time at the other exhibit, since many of the installations were hands-on. The art was much larger, also, which makes it more impressive to little folks like them. There was a huge iguana made from nails, wood, clay, bottle caps and other found-objects that the boys really liked. We looked at the regular collections also. Porter really liked a renaissance painting of Christ and Mary M / Mary after the crucifixion. We've been enough times so that Jackson can tell who people are in the paintings if they are religious (angels, Mary, Christ, etc.)

After that we headed to Niko Niko's for lunch -- success this time! Still a bit crowded, but we got a table no problem. Lots of activity over in the Montrose area today, since the Gay Pride parade is tonight --

Katie has the boys packed for their trip to Nana's house for a few days while she and I are in Orlando. We'll head out earlyish tomorrow, so it makes sense to get them over to Carolyn's tonight -- gives us the chance to get packed ourselves. Tonight I think we'll just veg in front of the TV, eat a little pasta, and get ready for our trip.