SAMA

If you've ever wondered whether it's possible to speedwalk through an entire art museum in order to see everything there in less than two hours: that's what I did this Friday evening. I had enough time on my hands before attending the theater to make it worthwhile, but not enough time for me to be able to sit down or read every label (as is my usual habit). However, a trip to the San Antonio Museum of Art was still a pleasurable experience at cruising speed, from the parking lot (where today's photo is from):

to the top floor (there are I want to say a total of four). An intriguing amount of variety is encompassed in their primary collections, which include not only the ubiquitous artifacts of ancient western cultures (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, etc) and works by European artists, but also multiple collections of other cultures of origin (Indian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, multiple Pacific entities, and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art) as well as collections centered around religious artifacts belonging to Islamic, Hindu, and Christian faiths. Another thing that I liked was that their labels (I did read some) often included some of the stories of how the particular item came to be part of the museum collections, or acknowledged a gap in the knowledge of the object's past or when a connection wasn't entirely certain but at least probable. Even though I was more than ready to sit down and rest for a spell by the time I had finished, I enjoyed getting to briefly roam around and see all that SAMA had to offer.