june 8

One night in Kanazawa, primarily to see the Museum of the 21st Century (SANAA  2004) and the Kenrokuen Garden.
Plan of the Museum.  The blue area is the exhibition zone, the rest is the public zone, which includes the Leandro Erlich swimming pool installation, an Anish Kapoor room and a Turrell room, a small library, child care area, and "people's galleries."  The exhibition zone is divided by big glass doors that can be rearranged according to the temporary work being shown. 

The temporary exhibition was excellent.  Jan Fabre and Katsura Funakoshi.  The public space of the museum is open until ten.  We went back and were the only ones there.  No security. Nothing. Impressive to see the "museum open to the city like a park" concept working.  Much like the groutless hand glued marble floor tiles in the Monet room at the Chichu Museum, this would probably not work out very well in the states.  (groutless tiles working in Japan because you remove your shoes and walk around in museum slippers)

The  lovely Jazz Spot Bokunen.  Small world moment when we saw magnets  from Albuquerque behind the bar.