Botero

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Originally uploaded by aliciamalia. This sculpture is in Cartegena, but it's hard to avoid seeing work by Botero in Colombia. He's everywhere. I loved the Botero Museum in Bogota. There are over 100 works - it's hard not to be charmed by them. I liked the National Museum in Bogota as well. We were really disappointed by the Gold Museum. Admittedly it's under construction, but I wasn't blown away by the collection. There's a lot of build up for the golden raft, which is at the very end of the museum. We were expecting, well, a golden raft. Which it is - a six inch long one. Not life size. In a huge, subtly lit space.

It's not a bad museum, it just didn't come to life - it was hard to visualize how people wore the stuff, made it, traded it, etc.