Today was an awesome day. It started off ordinarily enough, cleaning the various sculptures in the Nasher garden. I still had 'Closing Time' in my head and so was singing it as I went about doing my thing. Later on I was on shop float which means I have to ask the shop if anything needs restocking and then go find the corresponding items in the store (just in case you wanted to know, the Italian for bubble wrap is 'Pluriball'. Win.). I ran into Valentina who asked me if it was me singing earlier and I said yes and of course mentioned my blog where I upload my uke videos. “Facci vedere!” was the response. So I showed her.
Later one of the capi got a call to the student room where we take our breaks. The shop wanted me to drop by when I had a minute. I'd only just been there rolling up posters. I arrived slightly baffled at the shop to find Valentina waiting with this amazing thing:
It's of the Mario Marini sculpture that is on the Gugg's terrace. It's such a sweet present and it now has pride of place on my desk. Grazie Valentina!
Other excitement was provided by various familiar faces dropping by the gallery. While I was guarding the Pollock room Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest casually strolled by. Amazing. Later on I was giving a fellow intern a 15min break from guarding in the wonderful temporary exhibition on the collection of Illeana Sonnabend. You can check out the exact room I was in by clicking this link which will take you to a virtual tour: http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/exhibitions/virtual_tour/sonnabend/. So I was studying the Jeff Koons, still trying to figure out if it was made from one block of wood or not when through the doorway came my aunt and uncle. I know it's a cliché but I really was so taken aback that I was speechless. Think X-Factor contestant just being told they've got through to the next round. It was so lovely to see them and good to hear that they liked the exhibition.
The day was rounded off by a trip to the Lido, one of the larger islands in the lagoon, where we listened to some late night jazz. A pretty sweet day.
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