Matisse-Diebenkorn at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Pathetic. Of course there's no way to know how/why they chose what to show, but they were all mediocre. And to charge $31.00 to see 'em! The colors, in nearly every piece, were muddy and there were MAYBE two Matisses that were bigger than 16 x 20 inches (40 x 50 cm). I surmise budget constraints; the curator had an idea but lacked the wherewithal to pull it off.

NOW you can see "the name."

Never too humble for posterity.

On the plus side, there were two rooms of work by Richard Serra! That's a $500.00 White boot for scale. (Well, they're $250.00 each.)

Always larger-than-life. About 20 feet square.

It's lead. You could feel the toxicity in the air. Almost as creepy as Tommy Hilfiger. No, no, wait. I mean Freddy Kreuger!

Appreciating cultural diversity....

MENS'

Then there was In Situ. Billed, by the docent overseeing the cafeteria upstairs as "fine dining," what you see below was their $14.00 "hamburger." Called The Apocolypse, it was a teensy chunk of beef encased by an edible, charcoal briquette with a texture similar to a chimichanga. We'd've sent it back but didn't want to wait for the alternative.

I had the Lamb Manti. It was three SMALL portions of stringy lamb delicately embraced within some wide noodles...a multi-ethnic pappardelle, or some such. The flavor was okay, but at twenty-two bucks it was a rip. I'll get revenge through TripAdvisor. Our complaints elicited offers of a post apocalypse coffee, but it took prompting to get her to add the word "complimentary."

Total bullshit!!