Asian Art

Today Linsay, Ethan and I went to the Arthur M. Sackler Asian Art Museum. Maybe it's because I'm half Japanese or maybe it's because I think that Asian art is so much more interesting than European art but either way I had an amazing time. They have collected pieces of art from Korea, Thailand, Japan, China, India, and Russia. I think the Russian weaponry was my favorite part of the exhibit.

They have a blue room with gold peacocks painted on the walls that I could have stayed all day in. The Peacock Room carries all of the rare blue and white china that the Smithsonian has collected. The picture on the right (below) is a hanging sculpture that runs down the center of the museum. On the bottom floor, where the sculture base is, there is a fountain and doors that lead in to the Museaum of African Art.

Ethan spent the whole time watching Winnie the Pooh on my iPod (I carry it everywhere just in case he gets bored) and yelling so he could hear his voice echo off the walls. Luckily he kept the yelling down to a minimum. After the museum we went to a set of gardens next to the building and let Ethan play in the water fountains and chase birds for a bit as his reward for putting up with us and all of the boring paintings.

There are still so many things to see before I go home so I'll probably go downtown 1 or 2 more times before I head to Arizona.