I went to the Museum of Fine Arts to see an exhibition on 100 years of American ceramics. It was a lovely show, but I would have liked to see an example of the late Anne Kraus’s mysterious tea cups there. If Warren McKenzie could give her a whole show at the Northern Clay Center when I was living in Minneapolis, I know it’s not just the gal on the street who thinks Kraus is major.
The MFA ceramics show was a very small show, tucked away in a corner. It hardly seemed enough to justify the admission fee and parking.
So I took a walk through a really big show there, one on the Japanese artist Hokusai (you know: “The Wave”). Unlike the ceramics show, this one was crowded and almost too extensive to take in, but I enjoyed what I saw — especially some colorful wall hangings.
I took photos both outside the museum and inside (a sign said it was OK — just not to use a flash). My Hokusai photos are mostly of large-scale reproductions. The originals were small and harder to shoot through glass.
The show is running until August 9, and if you go, I recommend that you pause for the wall of slides at the entrance, which is delightful and gives one a sensation of watching the art coming into being, like a waterfall swishing down a landscape.
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Thanks for the guided tour. I enjoyed seeing Dale Chihuly’s piece again and remembering the exhibit devoted to his work several years ago.
He really creates magic kingdoms, with a feeling of being underwater kingdoms. We saw a show of his some years ago — I think it was when we were in Minneapolis.
I just saw the Hokusai show over the weekend–I know nothing about Asian art but still liked the show a lot. And the DaVinci drawings were wonderful!
Excellent, KerryCan. I loved the way the Hokusai art was presented.