More Pics from Washington, DC: The Hirshorn & The Museum of the American Indian
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei did a collection of sculpture called Animal Heads/Chinese Zodiac that's on display under the Hishhorn right now. Born in 1973, I'm an Ox. This is the Dragon from the same collection. You can see some of the other heads in the background. This is called something like Classical Sculpture by Rodin. It's also in the Hirshhorn. This was one of my favorites from this trip. The Museum of the American Indian is a very sad place. It starts by making a point of the fact that "Indians" are from India, and that even calling American Indians "Native Americans" is an anomoly in that they existed on the continents that we call America long before the continent itself had been given that name. The people living in the Americas before Columbus had a rich culture, history, and heritage long before Europeans knew them. But then the museum dives straight into the conquest of America by the Spanish, and the plagues and wars tha