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| Richard Serra sculpture |
I took the train to the Louisiana Museum today -- it's got fabulous sculpture on gorgeous grounds and I was glad to walk around outside as the inside was warm and kind of crowded. I loved the sculpture installations and the way they were situated with backdrops of lakes, trees and water. They had many works by sculptors whose work is also exhibited at Glenstone in DC, so I liked seeing more of their works (the Roni Horn glass cylinder here was pink! at Glenstone, the two they have are black and gray and seem much more earthy than the pink one. It was shown here inside against a white brick wall, not very photogenic).
They had a collection of drawings and sculptures by Giacometti, juxtaposed with work by Louise Bourgeois. The curation pointed out that in spite of a mere 10 year age difference, Giacometti's work seems to fall into a different time period than the perceived contemporary work by Bourgeois. There was a 2-spider sculpture, which was gorgeous and of course evocative of the mother and child relationship that Bourgeois's work explores.
The museum's interior displays had a lot of video installations, which I'm not terribly into. There wasn't a lot of seating and you are in a darkened space, standing and hot... it was, for me, a good reason to go back outside. They also have a really nice shop and I am at the point in this trip where I could just donate all my clothes and never see them again and I'd be happy. I didn't succumb to any of their very fun clothes and home decor or even the things for kids. It was too early in the day to be stuck carrying a shopping bag, anyway.
On the way back, I detoured to the Designmuseum. Oddly, although it's a fun and well-curated museum, the story Danish design is one of commercially successful products and a lot of colorful plastic ... so the familiarity of the designs (you've seen it all, especially if you are old like me and your first furniture came from Scan, a Nordic design store in DC back in 1980) and all the years of knock-offs took some of the luster off for me. They do have an excellent cafe, where I once again had great-tasting food slathered in mayonnaise. This was smoky grilled sourdough bread, pickled celeriac and apples and it was really delicious. A lighter hand on the mayo would have been welcome.
I also made it to the Marble Church, or Frederick's Church, which is a very beautiful, huge, domed building ... not made of marble. Apparently early plans presumed the use of marble and the name stuck. It took over a hundred years to complete (145 actually, much of the time it sat as a ruin, unfinished and it was finally finished in 1899), it's nonetheless a gorgeous and majestic space.
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| do not be fooled by that little bit of blue sky -- it was short-lived |
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