Julie Speed

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WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MUSEUM? WHY?


There's something about The Menil Collection in Houston that I'm crazy about. I think they have collected with a lot of sensitivity and humor. The building itself feels good to me. I'd like to sleep in it. There's also a little museum in Florence that I don't even know the name of where they keep one of John the Baptist's fingers in a crystal and gold reliquary. That reliquary room has perfect proportions and I'd like to find it again and measure it so I could build it someday. Also that finger really impressed me, and is probably one of the sources for the severed finger in The Internuncio. All of my other favorite museums are pretty much the obvious ones, starting with the Uffizi as number one favorite.



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