Jacques of all Trades

Smithsonian Castle, Washington, DC (5/5/10)

National Building Museum stretches into the setting sun.

(Washington, DC, 4/28/10)

Kogod shadows. (Reynolds Center, DC 4/28/10)

Had a nice lunch at the Kogod courtyard off the National Portrait Gallery. I should really get over here more often on the lunchbreak!

The National Building Museum in Washington, DC.  This is literally across the street from my office, but I haven’t been there in years to check out the exhibits (though I’ve definitely hit up the cafe and enjoyed the awesomely massive atrium).  

Waiting

A frog mask made of Nike Air Jordans, by Brian Jurgens, National Museum of the American Indian, 2/20/10

“In No Hurry” (National Museum of the American Indian, 2/20/10)

Tribal Mask made of Nike Air Jordans, by Brian Jurgen, National Museum of the American Indian, 2/20/10

A fascinating “skull-pture” made entirely of baseballs and softballs (Brian Jurgen, National Museum of the American Indian)

Yesterday was a beautiful day for a trip to the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), on the National Mall in DC

A balloon top for the Hirschhorn Museum? Now that would shake up the mall!  (Whether good or bad, I haven’t yet decided).

Sayeth the New York Times:

For the last several months the newly appointed director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Richard Koshalek, has been quietly at work on a plan to erect a 145-foot-tall inflatable meeting hall that would swell out of the top of the internal courtyard of the museum, which sits on the Mall midway between the White House and the Capitol.

Here might be the view on the inside:

As always, DCist has some fun comments.

As for me… it looks like fun, but I can think of roughly 5 million better uses for $5 million….