Jasper Johns - Mind/Mirror

Becky, Katie and I went down to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to see the Jasper Johns show. Becky had gone online the previous week to get tickets. When we told Kate our plans for that Friday morning she asked to go along with us as the kids would both be in school and Todd was home to pick them up. 

At first we were planning to take the train down to the museum but then decided to take a Lyft ride which worked out fine in both directions.

The Jasper Johns show in Philadelphia titled Mind/Mirror was one of two simultaneous career retrospective exhibits. The other is in New York at the Whitney Museum. We're hoping to try to get to see that one in January. We had tickets for the show at 10:30.

We all enjoyed this show very much and of course especially Becky. The show really displayed his work from so many phases of his career. It was all very fascinating and we spent an hour in the exhibit area. Then we wandered around the museum for another hour and a half. It was nice to be back in that very familiar museum again. There were also some areas that had been renovated and were spectacular. We had noticed coming in to the museum that the Rocky statue had been moved from the front steps and placed off to the side of the building on park grounds. Of course there were people lined up to take pictures in front of Rocky.

We walked around several galleries and after a while we went over to the cafeteria and had a nice lunch before heading outside to wait for our Lyft ride. There was a funny incident when we saw what we thought was our Lyft car pull up and watched someone get in before I could approach it. Then it drove away but we could see it down the street a little turn around and come back where it dropped off the rider. I knew at that point it was our car because of the license plate number. It turned out the other person was a George but then quickly determined he had the wrong car when the driver mentioned he was going to Mt Airy. First time we ever had that kind of mix up with a Lyft or Uber ride.