art. woven art.

we went to see the ruth asawa exhibit at the de young this weekend. she was an artist who is probably most famous for her woven wire and tied wire works, which are amazingly beautiful and strikingly both mathematic and natural. if you’ve ever been to the de young, a few of her smaller works are usually in the elevator lobby of the observation tower; however this is a wonderful much larger exhibit of all of her different works as well as many of her really large scale pieces. absolutely worth a visit.

speaking of exhibitions, if you are thinking of going down to lost angels to see the fashion exhibits i mentioned before, i did forget to mention that lacma also has a special exhibit all about magritte, if you’re into that surrealist thing. which you should be, of course. it’s a lovely collection, and they’ve really customized the space beautifully for the works, including putting cloud carpets in as well as freeways on the ceilings. hmc said to avoid the audio tour, which was narrated by pierce brosnan for no other reason than his version of the thomas crowne affair which uses magritte’s man in a bowler hat as a major plot point. cinematic cleverness aside, she says that it’s a waste of $6.

speaking of (ex-)bonds, i totally forgot to mention one thing about casino royale: halfway through the movie i realized (and then could not stop) that daniel craig quite resembles hong kong movie star tony leung chiu wai. not so much straight up, but certainly his nose and mouth, and especially the same way that they exhibit that slight wry smile. i don’t know why i thought this was important, but once i saw it i couldn’t get it out of my head. maybe the closest you’ll ever get to a chinese james bond (and no, city hunter does not count).