Why is The Idiot posing for selfies with Degas, Maillol, Matisse, Monet, Moore, Picasso, Popova, Van Gogh, Rousseau, Toulouse-Lautrec and other artists at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California?
Because after walking around the Mediterranean Sea for twenty years, The Idiot is going to spend the next two decades walking around the Norton Simon getting selfies with each of the 12,000 objets in the museum’s collection (only 1,000 are on view to “normal” visitors at any one time).
To date, he’s taken fifteen shots and the first book about this engaging exploit, currently entitled The Idiot and the Odyssey IV: Speaking To Museum Muses, is scheduled for publication in 2025. Once again, a journey of 1,000 miles begins with the first steps.
The Idiot with Henri Matisse’s Nude on a Sofa.
The Idiot with Pablo Picasso’s Woman with a Book.
The Idiot with Lyubov Popova’s The Traveler.
The Idiot with Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of a Peasant.
The Idiot with Claude Monet’s The Artist’s Garden At Vetheuil.
The Idiot with Edgar Degas’ Dancers in the Rotunda at the Paris Opera.
The Idiot with Aristide Maillol’s The Mountain.
The Idiot with Henri Rousseau’s Exotic Landscape.
The Idiot with Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s At the Cirque Fernando, Rider on a White Horse.
The Idiot with Henry Moore’s Draped Reclining Woman.
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