DC: Day 6

DC Day 6: Was spent on the Mall hitting as many museums as humanly possible before a delicious lunch in Capitol Hill at Capitol Hill Tandoor and Grill. My favorite Smithsonian museum which I am sure will come as no suprise to anyone is the Hirschhorn museum of Modern and Contemporary Art but we also saw the Freer, and the Castle.

Inside/Outside the Hirschhorn


Robert Rauschenberg, Dam, 1959


Ron Mueck, Untitled (Big Man), 2000, from the Strange Bodies: Figurative Works from the Hirshhorn Collection exhibition


John and I just loved this big guy. He looked so real that at any minute I felt he was going to grab me or stand up and smash me. So cool! The aesthetic quality and output of this object was simply incredible. It was eery, creepy and fascinating to move around. I have never been a fan of heroized Renaissance statues, I need something I can relate too and for some strange reason I can relate to this and not that. John and I sat and watched people for an hour relate and take pictures with this giant. It is so interesting and fun to see people interact with an art object such as this. To me... this is what art is all about. Did my nerdy museum side just come out?




More museum nerdiness.. unpacking crates for an upcoming exhibition