We ended up getting rained on when we went to the Met. I had hoped to see the Alice Neel show, but the line was just too long--lots of other folks decided to go on Mother's Day. The experience was rather overwhelming; room after room crammed with stuff. We found the Japanese galleries, and a show of Dutch masters' paintings, a small collectin of Impressionist and post-Impressionist art, and spent some time in the Mesoamerican area, but galloped through the Egyptian, the Greek, the medieval areas. R. wanted to look at the decorative arts section, but my feet were so tired I couldn't appreciate it. I'm good for the first two or three hours of walking, but I hit the wall in the fourth.
My favorite part of our visit was the gallery of contemporary Japanese ceramics. This video is not about the Met's collection, but it does give a wonderful survey of contemporary work in Japan:
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