For the two days prior to our cruise, Steven and I stayed at the Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore. It's a huge complex, with shops, a casino, and of course the infinity pool on the 57th floor. We'll be writing more about this hotel in a future post, but I wanted to quickly talk about the exhibit we saw today at the ArtScience Museum, which is part of the same complex.
Seeing the ArtScience museum is an attraction in itself. Designed by Moshe Safdie, it is shaped like a big lotus flower. (For those keeping track, this is the second Mose Safdie designed museum we have been at in the last few months -- we were at Yad Vishem in Jerusalem in October).
The museum is currently showing two temporary exhibitions. We just went to one, entitled "The Art of the Brick", which is a collection of works by NYC-based artist Nathan Sawaya, all constructed using Lego bricks. We weren't expecting much from the exhibit, but we ended up being blown away. Some of the pieces were quite complex, and were presented in a very dramatic way with a lot of thought given to the lighting and accompanying music in each gallery.
But I'm anything but an art critic (even a Lego art critic), so I'll get let the photos speak for themselves.
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