Art In Sydney!

One of the highlights of our recent trip to Sydney (besides sun, sea and Rory!) was visiting some of the new art museums in the city, and others that we’re new to us! There were so many really fun exhibitions, I hope these photos do them justice!

The first was the “Sydney Modern” which funnily enough was profiled by the New York Times just after we got back, it really is world class!

They had this creepy basement exhibit that was really dark, but Rory was very brave, able to walk around it (but staying away from the really dark, really scary corners!)

More fun was this mirror exhibit that made you look like you were in a shopping mall a 1000 stories high!

But the most fun, was this huge sculpture of clay balls, that visitors were encouraged to add to themselves!

Rory was very good at it and really contributed a lot!

This was very cool, a hanging city made of cardboard!

As always, the MCA was a treat, this time with a big exhibit with this fabric artist, making fabric molds of his apartment in New York,

A floor helps up by thousands of plastic soldiers!

And a wall paper print of tiny headshots of everyone from his graduating high school class, but really tiny, so the whole wall was made up of over a million headshots!

Here’s a picture of Cynthia standing in front of a million photos of people!

He also did a fabric mold of a toilet,

And a paper mold of a traditional house in China!

Speaking of China, we also checked out the White Rabbit Gallery, which has a world famous Chinese modern art collection, which was also really good (and packed), here’s myself and Miles in a long bookcase corridor, filled with copies of Chairman Mao’s book. There was lots of pretty political stuff there, so no surprise its not housed in China!

They also had huge statues that looked like stone, but were in fact paper casts!

Another dark room filled with art, this time letters for the different Chinese seasons, carved into rocks!

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Myself and Cynthia also had fun when we brought Rory to a shark exhibit at the Natural history museum, but no photos as Rory runs around exhibits pretty fast, so it was all we could do to keep up with him! Day trips with 8 year olds are a real work out!

Afterwards though we met up with Colette and Colman and went across the street to the National Cathedral, where Rory offered to light a candle for Nan, which was really lovely to see.