museums, and st. paul

We walked around today. A lot.
First I went to the V&A museum with art history, which was really cool. They had a copy of the sculpture "David" (the real one is in Florence), and a really cool photography exhibit. We didn't have much time to look around, though, because Kyle and I met his family at St. Paul's immediately afterwards. We met them on the balcony of the dome. That was neat – it's one of the largest unsupported domes in the world, I think, and it's covered with paintings and mosaics to make it even more impressive. The inside is a lot lighter, too, because it's made out of light stone instead of the usual dark stone. We didn't get much time to look around, though, because it closed at 4:30 and it took a long time to get to the very top.
After that we walked to the Tate Modern museum. I hadn't really been before, but I really enjoyed the gallery. It had a lot of really modern art, like a whole exhibit of minimalists, where a single fluorescent light set at an angle was a commentary on the human existence or something like that. I appreciate modern art like that as a whole, but some of the pieces were sort of weird. I felt very pretentious standing in front of a solid black canvas. It was a good museum, though, and I'm glad we're coming back next week with class. Our prof Giovanni works there as a guide, I think, so he'll know a lot about many of the pieces there. I think it'll be good.