It still takes me aback, how many people are snapping photos in museums. Recently at the Sargent Watercolor Exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts there was a woman religiously taking a photo of every painting with her ipad. She appeared to be on a mission to photograph all 90+ paintings in the show. It struck me as almost tragic that while she was so busy concentrating on framing images with her ipad, she never directly experienced Sargent's rich, lush colors, marks or textures.

But earlier this week, I confess I fell prey to the impulse to whip out my iphone camera in the Museum of Modert Art in New York. No, I wasn't photographing the art hanging on the wall - just this priceless Frida moment:

*Where is your eyebrow pencil when you need it?*

And then there was this view across the atrium of a staircase - framed like a painting, an abstract still life. God...I love my iphone....