Shall hie me
thither this Fri, thanks for post
Sz
From:
Margaret Leggoe [
Sent: Monday, 11 January 2010 7:52
PM
To:
Subject: [canberrabirds] artistic
birds
Today
I decided to beat the heat in the National
Art Gallery.
The blockbuster French exhibition was OK, but it paled into insignificance when
I later went down to the East Asian Exhibition down on the lower ground level.
There, they have a Chinese silk coverlet (would cover a double bed) all
exquisitely hand embroidered with innumerable species of birds. There is
no way I can do it justice by trying to describe it, but I have seen little in
the National Gallery in the past 18 years to equal it. I will have to go
back and take something to sit on so that I can spend as much time as I want
gazing at it.
And
that part of the Gallery is FREE.
Margaret
Leggoe
