All The Beauty In The World by Patrick Bingley is the next book club book, and it's good it's short because I got it 13 days before we meet, and I had a day where I finished up another book for another book club. I once did the NY Times challenge of looking at a painting for 10 minutes, so I look at the Greco painting for quite a while, while I notice a lot of things about it (See links below). The paintings kind of come alive when you take some time with them, and not just move on when they get boring. I'm often too interested in consuming everything, instead of really grokking one painting when I'm present at a museum. Moving forward I'm going to be more strategic. He talks about being struck by the beauty, and having nowhere to put it. He talks about windows into the world, Maria Theresa by Diego Velazquez . Of the 34 paintings by Vermeer , the Met has 5 of them. Frick has 3. Manhattan has 8 of the 34 Vermeers, 24%. You know, I think I'm going to create...