This is my history of art and the history of my taste (Pierre-Auguste Renoir doesn’t get in. Neither does William-Adolphe Bouguereau. My rules, thank you). It helps compensate for my inability to go and see everything that I want to see in person. Many of the objects pictured are in fact old friends from much-treasured travels. Geopolitics makes it unlikely that I’ll be ever be able to visit The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, unfortunately. I am getting older, which may very well rule out trips to Angkor Wat, Machu Picchu, or Easter Island, and at some point will end my travels altogether.
André Malraux discovered that anyone can build an Imaginary Museum in 1947, because of the new availability of high-quality color photographs of visual art from everywhere in the world.
The Internet is an Imaginary Museum on an unimaginable scale. I hope you enjoy mine.