THINGS I DID IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
- Smithsonian museums. Holy crap there are a lot of them. So much, we didn’t make it to all the ones we wanted to. We did:
- The Castle
- Freer/Sackler Galleries
- Natural History
- Hirshorn Gallery (Andy Warhol’s Shadows is fantastic and the Hirshorn is possibly the most perfect gallery to display it. Also must see: Ali Kazma’s Black Box. Mesmerizing.)
- Air and Space
- American History
- American Art/National Portrait Gallery (Where I got to experience the enormously awkward moment of realizing I was the only living, breathing Asian in the Portraiture Now exhibit. From the Smithsonian: “this exhibition offers provocative artistic responses to the Asian experience in America and the meaning of being Asian American. The artists’ visual stories offer representations against and beyond the stereotypes that have long obscured the complexity of being Asian in America.” It resonated with me, but really highlighted the only Asian in the exhibit thing.
- We also, of course, visited the Capitol
- Library of Congress (nifty cool passport thingy for interactivity)
- National Archives (holy fuck do I want to work there. The Public Vaults are hands down the coolest. And their cafe is delicious and cheap.)
Oh, and did I mention we took a train from Penn Station in New York to Union Station? Pretty sure I’ve collected every transportation experience there is to collect excepting a transatlantic voyage and I’ll pass on that, thanks.
