Saturday 05/25/2024
Pretty much an uncommitted Saturday so I thought I would catch up with my museum going. There were CH buses organized to two different museum exhibits last week and I had to skip both of them, but I own a car so…
I headed first to the City, to the Legion of Honor museum to see their collection of Japanese block prints. Lots of prints from different eras from 1500 to 1950. Some of the modern ones were fun, like this one from 1984, the print artist commenting on the cultural invasion of Japan by Baskin-Robbins ice cream, using the styles and printing techniques of 200 years earlier.
It was a wet, foggy day in SF. I liked the color balance between the flowers outside the Legion building and the gum trees and the fog.
Those are not army tents on the lawn. Not sure what they are, probably art of some kind.
Left SF and drove back to the Stanford campus where I went into the Cantor museum and had lunch in their cafe, a very tasty pork sandwich. Then viewed the exhibit “Day Job” which shows works of art by artists who were working day jobs and doing art when they could, with comments from the artists about how that experience affected their art. It was nice but none of the art works particularly grabbed me.
Back home for a rest and then out to hear music from a high school jazz band performing in a nearby park. They were from Mountlake Terrace high school near Seattle. Why were they in a park in Palo Alto? I don’t know. They were… not bad. But I didn’t stay long.
Codgerville 