I went to the museum with Weiyao this afternoon, expecting to see the Durga sculpture that John talked about. When we finally got there we were so embarrassed to hear that Rubin Museum is closed for a couple of months because they were ripping out everything and remodeling the inside.(That’s what constructor said) After 10 seconds of OMGing Weiyao came up with a great idea of taking picture of us in front of the building for a proof of visiting to excuse ourselves.  

Are You Kidding Me-ing

Yeah, that was about it. Nice trip though.  

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Kidding~ When we were having fun taking pictures, another guy came up and kindly guided us to”real” Rubin Museum which was twenty steps apart from the faux Rubin Museum.  

  

I love its show window. It looked more like a gallery than museum.

So we hurried in as soon as it was opened and oohed and aahed as we climbed up to upper levels. Second floor was about Art of Himalaya and Tibet. I’m sorry about that I don’t have a picture for the second floor. There was a ‘no pictures please’ sort of atmosphere in there so I was timid to take out a camera from my purse. I remember they had a huge map of Asia and maybe Weiyao will put up the picture of it. (do you mind = 3=? ) I only took pictures of Buddha and Indra on third floor. And here they are~  

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Go Buddha! I like Buddhism in the abstract, but I don’t really know much about it. I never happened to learn about any religions deeply other than Christianity, so it was interesting to see Buddhist sculptures and paintings. And on the same floor, I finally check out Johnny’s Durga which was much smaller than I thought but I liked it.  I must say that I really enjoyed visiting the Rubin Museum of Art. It was worth while walking down 8 blocks with sandals in November. If it was not Baruch, how would I have ever known there is the museum on 17th street in Manhattan. I appreciate that Baruch offered this great opportunity to experience the Rubin Museum of Art.