Get out much?

Living in DC is a virtual smorgasbord of cultural opportunities. On any given day (Sunday included) you can go to any museum and see artifacts, sculpture, art – some guy’s idea of art, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. (I watched The King and I last night.)

But how many of us really get out and do all that stuff?? I know I don’t. The only time I go to a museum is a. where there is a new exhibit that I really want to see, or b. when family/company comes to town. Today was a nice combination of both.

My mom came to town a few days ago. We kept Frager’s in business and planted a – for lack of a better term – shit ton of flowers in my back yard. Today was her last day in the City so after we did our obligatory hour of church (church is really three hours – oops) we hopped on down to the National Gallery of Art for the opening of Afghanistan, Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul.

It was fabulous. And as one who has an almost unhealthy obsession with all things Mesopotamian/Middle Eastern – it was a particularly good time.

And…they sell pretty decent gelato in the café downstairs. The Afghanistan exhibit is in town until September and if you head upstairs there is an uber cool Matisse cut out exhibit. Notice the spacing on the blue flowers in the middle of the piece - very lovely.