Friday is my sabbath day — no work, just personal and spiritual renewal. This week, I spent my sabbath at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The trolley drops you off past the front entrance of the museum, and right now you can’t help but notice the two racing sail boats cleverly supported above the grass in front of the museum’s front entrance.

The two boats, former contenders for the America’s Cup, are beautiful objects in of themselves, like the helicopter and racing cars in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Unfortunately, the boats are really there to draw attention to a new exhibit, “Things I Love: The Many Collections of William I. Koch.” It feels like the show’s only reason for existence is to puff up the ego of William Koch in order for the museum to get some kind of donation(s) out of a very wealthy man. Nothing wrong with that — puffing up the egos of rich patrons has been going on since the beginning of the history of art. But the show itself is a bit of an embarrassment. The collections show little sign of informed and intelligent taste, merely signs of overwhelming wealth. Not recommended.