Saturday, August 23, 2008

Chihuly @ the De Young Museum

We checked out the Chihuly at the De Young Museum exhibit over the weekend. Chihuly is an artist works with glass. His work is on display in the lobby ceiling of the Bellagio on Las Vegas. I saw his Chihuly in the Park: A Garden of Glass exhibit at the the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago several years back.

This current exhibit was really cool. It was pretty crowded, and the exhibit was smaller than we expected. It had many similar pieces to the one i saw in Chicago, but they were displayed differently. In Chicago, the pieces were displayed within a natural setting, which provided a unique contrast to the pieces. The one at the de Young wasn't set against a natural setting, which made the pieces more dramatic. There were also some new pieces that I haven't seen before, like the baskets. If you'd like to see our photos of the exhibit, click here.

After the visiting the exhibit, we walked around the park and grabbed a late lunch at Park Chow before heading back home. It was a great way to spend the afternoon.

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