The Daily Post

Today I went to the Art Institute to listen to Ernest van de Wetering, the head of the Rembrandt Project, talk about which paintings are fake and which aren't. It was so fun hearing him get all in a tizzy over a certain shoe here, a particular paint stroke there, the shadow over yonder, and the hair right in front. Could I do the same? I wish. This guy was the expert of the experts. So like him, probably no. It's scary to think about the amount of training he must have gone through to tell these things. When he pointed the details out, they seemed so OBVIOUS, but to find it on his own...

Well, moving on.

Since I had to go downtown, what follows are a VERY FEW pictures from around there.















Some city in front of the Art Institute.















Wigs.
















This is a sign down the street in the window of a hair salon. It occasionally causes some confusion. Can you get a child woven? Can you possibly get it woven into your hair? Do the children do the weaving?
















The high-brow bar from which we hear the sound of broken glass frequently as they empty out their bottles in the back. No, it is not high-brow. But it's the only bar around here.