Category Archives: Art

National Geographic Museum - “ARCHIPELAGO: Portraits of Life in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands”

Incredible exhibit open now at the National Geographic Museum. I had it on my schedule to go last weekend and see the aerial photos of Africa. I wasn’t very excited about going to see it, but I felt like my positive Africa experiences have been rather limited lately.
Imagine my surprise when I got to the [...]

By Administrator | Posted 28 January 2006 in Art | Comments (0)

silk robes from Turkey’s Ottoman Empire

Attended the Sackler Gallery’s Style and Status: Imperial Costumes from Ottoman Turkey before it closed. My favorite piece was the intricate red and blue flowered kaftan (6th down on the Robes page), though I sat with the red with yellow circles robe for quite a long time and even drew it in my sketchbook in [...]

By Administrator | Posted 26 January 2006 in Art | Comments (0)