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DAVID HALLBERG |
I love when a museum seemlessly connects art with an amazing building to house it in. This was never more present than the Horyuji Gallery at the Tokyo National Museum, which is a stones throw from the theatre in Ueno Park, where we perform.
The artictect, Yoshio Taniguchi, just completed the $858 million MOMA renovation in NYC.
Forgive this post for being a little too pic happy but…
To enter the building you walk on a concrete slab over shallow pool of water
A 7th century ceiling fixture hanging from a wrapped staircase. A little like…
Matisse’s La Danse at MOMA, which received a lot of criticism to the museum for placing such an iconic work in a back staircase.
The museum houses 7th and 8th century Buddhist artifacts from Nara, which is a city outside Tokyo. Here are masks people wore for special ceremonies… Almost like the movie, Return to OZ… anyone?
I can’t think of a better place to wait.
