cornerofmadness

I went to the Huntington Museum of Art with

rain_oubliette who is surprisingly from this tiny corner of the world and was back on vacation. I've never been to the museum and when we got there for a moment I thought we weren't going to get in. Turned out it was a free day and the Christmas party. They had people in very well done (i.e. professionally done) Renn outfits singing very old Christmas carols. Somewhere was grade schoolers doing the same. We saw some of the permanent exhibits, glassware (love glass), fire arms (the French know how to decorate them) and the Touma exhibit of Middle Eastern stuff including a furniture set completely covered with mother of pearl. Really beautiful stuff.

And Kahlil Gibran's work was being shown. I've always loved his writing so getting to see his artwork was a treat. I'm really glad I went and saw that. As I told Rain, after seeing some of the art was from written works I didn't know by him, I'm going to have to go look for them. And then there was the modern art. I'm still looking for someone to explain some of this stuff to me. What makes it art? There was a series on college ruled lined paper turned sideways with a single Chinese letter on it. One didn't even have that. It was just water rings that ran the lines. I honestly don't understand why it was art. I did like that Marshal University has a permanent display area. It's nice getting to see young artists. All in all a good day.

It feels like I've been off work forever instead of 2 days. I'm not looking forward to tomorrow.