At the moment I'm sitting in a coffee shop in Boston. As I mentioned earlier, I haven't been in Boston since I was fairly young and today I'm realizing that I should come here more often. What a great city.

This morning I went to the Museum of Fine Art, which had a fantastic and diverse collection. It's kind of fun going to galleries with no real idea of what their permanent collections contain. The MFA contains a great collection of 17th Dutch genre painting, Copley's Watson and the Shark, Millet's The Sower, Turner's The Slave Ship, and many other fine works. This afternoon I'm off to the Institute of Contemporary Art to see the exhibit "Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art".

Update: The influence of cartoons exhibit at the ICA is totally worth checking out if you're in Boston. It's a really well curated exhibit with stuff from Roy Lichtenstein, Warhol, and a number of currently working artists. One of the artists (I can't recall his name) was particularly interesting. Some guy from Chicago who no one had ever heard of, until he died and one of his friends went through his apartment and found a huge number of cartoon-like paintings and an epic illustrated book.