Beyond Monet

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” ~~~ Claude Monet

I’ve never been as happy to check out of our accommodations as I was this morning. And not because today was our day to embark Insignia for our cruise. We’re excited about that of course, but I am even happier that we won’t have to endure the noise coming up through the atrium for another night.

We had tickets to see the Beyond Monet Immersive Exhibit @ the Ice Palace Studios in downtown Miami this morning. So, after leaving our bags with the valet at the Brickell Arch, we headed off on a 2.6-mile walk to the exhibit venue. It was a decent walk along Miami Avenue … alas, a lot of street people lying about … shops all shuttered. Very sad to see. We got caught in a brief rain shower just as we were approaching the venue, but luckily there was a doorway where we could wait out the liquid sunshine without getting soaked.

This is our third immersive art exhibit. The first one featured the works of Klimt … we saw it in Malaga, Spain. The second one featured the works of Van Gogh … we saw it in Denver, Colorado. And now this one in Miami … featuring the works of Monet. The first two were truly wonderful. This one, for whatever reason, fell a bit flat for us. I’m not saying we didn’t enjoy it. We did. It was just not as good as the first two exhibits.Les mer