The Smithsonian National Gallery of Art

The Gallery of Art is an ‘all day project’. There’s a ton of artwork, both painting and sculpture. The place is so large that a tour is well worth doing just to get oriented. There are many dozens of galleries and it’s easy to get lost.

The tour provided some good insight into ‘art culture’ in general but it was someone we walked past that cemented the mental image of how serious some people are about art. It was a painter painting a painting of a painting.

It seemed surprising that the museum would allow people to create reproductions, but it seemed like a normal thing to have happening.

Given the entire museum is about art, it might be best to let the art speak for itself…