BIG CHEESE on the Art Museum

“The Philadelphia Museum of Art is more than just Philadelphia’s grandest and greatest museum. It is one of the great museums of the world, a Greek Revival palace rising majestically above the Schuylkill River, and – with its famed ‘Rocky’ stairs – the glorious endpoint to the city’s splendid Parkway. After a several-year exile outside the Wachovia Spectrum, the ‘Rocky’ statue stands once again in front of the Art Museum, but this time at ground level. Evidently the Museum decided that a movie prop has no place among its vast collection of ‘real’ art. While I don’t like seeing Rocky dissed, I have to admit that the collection of ‘real’ art really is vast, and the galleries really are breathtaking. There is nothing about the Art Museum that isn’t first-rate. Even the Museum Restaurant gets high ratings from Zagat’s.”

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