Palazzo Riso — Attraction in Palermo

Perhaps The West is lost after all 😱. I need a drink. Post to illustrate the sheer awfulness of this taxpayer-funded museum. Glorious palace building with C-list content. Not worth the 7 Euros. Don’t go.

Palermo is choc-a-bloc with old crumbling noble palaces. Quite a few are restored by government with buckets of taxpayers money. Then the state museum struggles to fill it up. It never occurs to them instead to incentivise the private sector - or indeed the extant noble owners - by deregulating and tax credits and keeping the state nannies at bay.

Take this one. Building and location are to die for. The Region of Sicily then renovated the ruin, and opened it as a contemporary art museum. The art content is so awful (compared with similar museums elsewhere in the world). This one also boasts two colossal courtyards, ideally suited for statutes. Instead, they harbour a circle of rocks which are not abandoned building materials, an upside down tree in rubbish bags, wasteland, and of course a pile of garbage (last photos) (it wouldn’t be Palermo without).

Nobody goes. The eight or so staff play with their phones. Hard...

We paid 12 euros to enter the museum. We were led to (and escorted all the way by a guard-like lady who refused to let either of us be alone in any of the galleries) the special show.

We are extremely open-minded on the whole topic, but an exhibition consisting of choice of apparent electric circuit designs, accompanied by a comprehensive show (or perhaps it was a different exhibit entirely, but our guard would not or could not explain) of wardrobes, hung on the ceiling (sic), seemed uninspiring, or perhaps beyond our powers of appreciation. One of the wardrobes did have just one door open and hanging down. Did we fail to appreciate something?

When we attempted to visit the permanent collection we were aggressively (actually, very aggressively) refused and told to come back at the end of the day.

There is an expression of which we have heard: "Iconic Art". It means" I con anyone I can get away with conning"

In this case, sadly, the whole museum seemed to be an "Iconic...

They let a band play a full tribute to David Bowie on July 1, 2017 for almost two hours! I loved it! All I here in Hawaii is Rap and Hawaiian and more Rap and more Ghetto Rap!

Mahalo nui loa to Sicilia (Big thanks) for my interest in Music. The lead singer was a girl. She did an EXCELLENT job singing Bowie's Songs. I wish I could wake up with someone like her with all the Mana'o (knowleage in Hawaiian).

Maybe this is way I feel at home on this island: Sicilia! My last trip was April...