It took a shinkansen ride (bullet train), a regular train ride, a walk, and a ferry ride to get to where I am. Naoshima Island on the inland Seto Sea, in the Benesse House run by the Fukutake Foundation. The architecture of the Benesse House buildings and museums is by Tadao Ando. It is essentially a resort, but a museum at the same time. The draw, and uniqueness, is living in a museum.
The art is by the best of our times. Jasper Johns to Basquiat, Sugimoto to Richard Long to Bruce Nauman. And that's just indoors, outdoors are sculptural pieces, like a land of the lost but for art. Kusama, Turrell, more Sugimoto. It is wonderful but eerie. I heard that Museums are a place where artwork goes to die. Well, with Ando's cement architecture, in this place, art has come to be buried.
sounds interesting
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