Having completely caught up with all my work on the flight back from New York, I enjoyed a weekend of culture. Saturday morning I went to the Seattle Art Museum, which has a wonderful collection of Northwest Native American art with totem poles, raven masks, robes and other artifacts. There were several French Impressionist paintings I've never seen before in books, as well as a set of four beautiful Flemish tapestries depicting Chinoiserie scenes, woven in 1700, and a piece that Jonathan would like with whole cars suspended from the ceiling with light tubes radiating out of them like starbursts.
I swung by Pike Place Market on my way back to buy some salmon - the Copperhead is just in season - and bread from the French bakery and cheese from Beecher's and a bunch of sweet peas whose peppery fragrance now greets me every time I walk into the apartment. In the evening I hopped on the monorail to go and see the movie 'Woman in Gold' in which Helen Mirren plays Maria Altman, the woman who sought restitution of Klimt's portrait of her aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer from the Austrian government, 50 years after it was unlawfully seized by the Nazis. The film is well worth watching.
On Sunday morning I took the bus up to Volunteer Park, where the Asian Art Museum is located. I was disappointed that the famous Japanese gold screen painted with crows was not on view but enjoyed watching an amazing animated mural by Chino Aoshima. Imagine a whole wall filled with detailed computer animation of a city and countryside under a volcanic eruption.. The Seattle Ikebana Society was also exhibiting today and I enjoyed the clean lines of their flower arrangements.
I rounded out the day by playing cello and piano sonatas with Chris from work.
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