Bijutsukan

Well I wrote a lot of stuff over the weekend on my computer but I dont have internet at home so I am posting them all at once. Busy busy busy. Well a few new cool things, I visited the Hara Museum of Contemporary art. It’s about a fifteen minute walk from the Shinegawa Station. Shinegawa is an amazing station it has the feeling of an airport hanger with very high ceilings and a lot of open space. There does not seem to be much around it though so I probably won’t be going back too often. Anyways after starring at the map outside the station for a while I figured out how to get to the museum and arrived pretty effortlessly. The museum itself is pretty unremarkable; it is fairly small but has a funky design with three levels and the building jets off in a few directions giving it small little wings. The reason I went down to this museum was because Yoshitomo Nara’s newest exhibition was being showed there. This is a special exhibition he made specifically for the museum. The museum cost seven thousand yen for students which isn’t really so bad and was definitely worth it for the exhibit. Nara had displayed varied mediums and pieces. For example a giant plate, small little sketches, a recreation of his drawing space, paintings, photos, a room piece with flowers growing out of the wood floor and little fake kids reading books, wall masks, and my personal favorite piece was a fountain in the shape of a giant tea cup with little kids in cat costumes climbing out of it. Very glay indeed.