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| Gene Davis's Bartleby is an aesthetically appealing series of
softly-colored lines.
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We saw an amazing window by
Gerhard Richter. I'm not sure which one, so the comment that I
wrote down that it has a sense of depth doesn't say much.
| Some works in Josef Albers's Structural Constellation series. He
plays with the depth of corners.
| Klaus Ihlenfeld's Composition in a Cube looks so simultaneously
random and inexplicable yet structured that it could be a Game clue.
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| Lucas Samaras's spiky Book No. 6 ("Treasures of the
Metropolitan") possibly represents the dangers of knowledge.
| Giovanni Anselmo's work, Invisible, is only visible if the light
falls upon an intervening object. This kind of thing could be a Game
clue.
| Sorry, I didn't write down what this strange wire contraption is.
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Robert Irwin created a flattened sphere that plays with one's sense of
depth. Sorry I couldn't manage to take a worthy picture. I found a
description (and picture) of the same piece when it was installed in
another museum.
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| Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden
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| Another version of Rodin's Burghers of Calais in the Hirshhorn
Sculpture Garden.
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| National Gallery Sculpture Garden
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| In the National Gallery of Art's Sculpture Garden, Louise Bourgeois's
Spider.
| A video of George Rickey's Cluster of Four Cubes. The cubes
rotate slowly.
| A video of Roy Lichtenstein's fabrication House 1 as I walked by.
It plays games with perspective. I love it!
| The Sculpture Garden's central fountain.
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| Barry Flanagan's Thinker on a Rock, an irreverent take off
Rodin's Thinker. The hare's pose could easily be mine.
| Lucas Samaras's Chair Transformation - Number 20B. I'm amazed
that it's stable.
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| En Route to Union Station
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| The National Archives.
| The Navy Memorial, with its flagpoles meant to look like ships' masts.
A map of the world is in the foreground and the National Archives--the
opposite face from the previous picture--is in the background.
| A better view of the large map embedded in the ground in the center of
the Navy Memorial.
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Around the perimeter of the memorial are bas reliefs, one for each
type of person on a ship.
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| Union Station
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The Main Hall.
My guide books also said I should visit the East
Hall but it was closed for a special event.
| A too-fast panoramic video of sculptures of Roman legionnaires on
balconies overlooking the Main Hall. Look at the previous picture again
to get the context of where these fit in. The legionnaires are being
modest with their shields.
| The Main Concourse.
| Another major shopping hall and mezzanine.
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| I bought a giant pretzel for a snack. It was good. It was slightly
fried--that surprised me.
| The fountain in Columbus Circle, a.k.a., Union Station Plaza. Yes,
that's Union Station in the background.
| A wide panorama of the front side of Union Station. Incidentally, the
figures at the top represent Fire, Electricity, Freedom, Imagination,
Agriculture, and Mechanics. The messages carved in the rock praise
them. How many figures can you identify?
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| En Route to Capitol Hill
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| There's a Postal Museum next to Union Station. How neat!
| A panoramic video of Union Station Plaza, taken from the south-east
corner of Union Station. The plaza is ringed with flags; I'm told one for
every state.
| The S.E.C. building has an unusual concave glass facade.
| The Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building has a multi-story glass
atrium with full-size adult trees inside.
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| A closer look at the trees, indoor.
| A typically nice government building. This happens to be the Russell
Senate Office Building.
| The fountain in Senate Park, which connects the Capitol to Union
Station. My mom said, "this is a gem."
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We found the Taft Memorial and decided it was bleh.
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