on the mall in the evening after a day at the i
m pei national gallery of modern art, the museum of the native american- the
new museum on the mall- a gigiantic sandstone clad undulating surface.
primitive offerening to the gods made for incongruous ornaments around the
building. directly across were the empty glass modernism of the many ministries
of the capital of the world. the hirschhorn gallery of art in its doughnut was
showing ai wai wai’s work- which seemed to be easy to use political art. but
then what do i know. outside the evening light on the mall was gorgeous, the
needle silhouetted against a burning sky. the vietnam memorial was dark by the
time we got there and lincoln glowed a blue white in the half light of the sky.
after a walk past the korean memorial, the new world war 2 memorial seemed to
me to be ironically cut from the same cloth at so many nazi or fascist
memorials. symmetrically placed on the axis of the dc monuments- the
classically inspired colonnade was strangely reminiscent of speer. dulles
airport with its swoop of concrete and expressive structural detail was where i
took my flight out to san fransisco. the day obama became president again.
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