Ex Bibliotheca

The life and times of Zack Weinberg.

Saturday, 6 March 2004

# 5 PM

To celebrate my birthday I went to the San Francisco Asian Art Museum today, with my sister and my grandmother. We saw an exhibit of monumental landscape paintings by Li Huayi, who is probably one of the best such painters in the twentieth century. He was trained in the classical styles in the years immediately preceding the Cultural Revolution, then he survived that upheaval by doing propaganda art for the Chinese Communist Party, and then he went back to landscapes but branched out into different styles. It's great stuff. We also looked through the Montien Boonma exhibit, which I was less impressed with but which is still good, particularly when he's playing with negative space.

# 4 PM

Today I am twenty-six.