Weekend Update

On Sunday I visited the Sackler Gallery.


(The gallery is actually to the left, but I like this picture better)
Immediately after walking in I came across a large curved piece of steel. The single piece of steel is constructed so that objects in the mirror change shapes along the continuum of the piece of art.



As I turned to go down to the main exhibit hall I caught the infamous no pictures sign out of the corner of my eye. I closed my eyes as fast as I could to avert seeing the sign, but to no avail. I had seen it, and I packed my camera back into my bag. (A potential topic on this blog in the future are the lack of picture taking opportunities in public art galleries in DC. (As much as I can recollect this was not true in any museums I went to in Europe .)

I happened upon a tour of their traveling exhibits in progress, so I slipped in and listened. Unfortunately, I only caught the tail end of the Tale of Shuten Doji exhibit, but a new tour of the Tsars and the East: Gifts from Turkey and Iran in the Moscow Kremlin started a few minutes later. I was drawn to the exhibit by the Washington Post's going out guide best bets, which featured a gold encrusted and bejeweled bull's horn. Better pictures from the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

Another painting from the National Portrait Gallery