Everybody was at LACMA last week, there was no parking anywhere. So the visit included a nice long walk just to get there from blocks away.
This is a sight to see. For years we were forbidden to call it The May Company – it became LACMA west and the language police were very strict with anyone connected to the museum, especially the docents. Then a deal was made and it will become a Hollywood museum and now one can call this the May Company again. I wonder if this museum will deal with the abuse of women and children that goes on in the industry or if it will be another puff piece that shows us the unreal veneer of the industry.
At least they are repairing the lovely gold tower, that is worth a lot.
It is amazing to see what becomes an icon. These lampposts have certainly become iconic. Not so sure about the floating rock, we never even went to check it out. 
The Chagall exhibit was bright, colorful and fun. Shira said that she loves this costume and wants to wear it. That in my book in a big success.
Aytan wanted to go visit the Japanese pavilion. He really likes these pots, go figure, one would think that he’d be interested in big bombastic things. But no, it’s the pots. Then I got smart and I gave him my phone. He ran around and took pictures of everything, here are just a few.
It is wonderful seeing something from a different angle. From my point of view I see the god more than the dwarf. I didn’t check out the label, but to me this looks like the Japanese version of Siva stamping out the dwarf of ignorance.
I cropped this a little, what I didn’t crop out is the person, because it was part of the picture that Aytan took.
He took this picture again, without the person, he was going for the ceramic vase. I love how he captured this man as well.
Another image I love, just because I’d never take this, but he did.
There was a special exhibit on Japanese cloisonne, what interested Aytan was taking pictures of the catalog, these are just two, but he did take quite a few.
As well as many pictures of the painted panels. I think the theme is the atmosphere. Even in this image, that waterfall is incredible, IRL it is all the more so.
I think these are rocks, I may be wrong, they may be made of fabric. For me, this visit was all about letting Atyan lead the way. It wasn’t about reading labels.
Sometimes it’s not about learning something new, it’s about letting a child run around and capture what interests him.
Leah