The Yale Art Gallery re-opens in full December 12th after renovations that went on for years. On Friday, much of it was open for a peek and so we peeked. All of it was worth the wait.

It made me think of those very first visionaries who thought up museums and public parks and libraries, those who said this beauty has to be shared! These acres of trees and meadows and rock, these stories and plays written hundreds of years back or just last year, this splash of color on canvas, this wooden mask, each must kept up and cared for and passed on to the next person and the next. 

Who wrapped it well in soft cloth until it ended up, somehow, here? So we could look closely and see and ponder. 

http://artgallery.yale.edu/