I saw some of the Coexistence art yesterday (that’s how I learned that .museum is now a TLD!), and I really liked it. My favorite piece was Piotr Mlodozeniec’s religious “Coexist” and I also liked Yossi Lemel’s interlocked fingers. Several images were displayed on the National Mall, but the online exhibition includes many more. They’d make good greeting cards, too!

I also got to see the new National Museum of the American Indian as we drove past it; fortunately I was in the passenger seat so I could stare as it went by. It looks much better than any of the pictures I’d seen; when news commentators described the architecture as “it looks like it’s carved by the wind,” I looked at pictures of the building and decided the commentators were full of crap. But it is a beautiful building; I’m not sure if I’d say it truly looks wind-carved but it is definitely more striking in real life than in any of the pictures I’ve seen. I remember seeing a Native American exhibit several years ago in the Castle, which I guess was a predecessor to the full museum. I probably won’t have time to go there anytime soon (and I’d rather wait for winter anyway, when the tourist crowds are smaller) but it is an attractive building.