[sumo] Re: [sumo art] Boston Sumo art exhibit

[Jim Bitgood]

I finally made it. While I was in Massachusetts for the marathon, I 
visited the Museum of Fine Arts and looked at the sumo art exhibit. I 
didn't know sumo cards would count as "art." But they have a glass 
enclosed display with some cards in it. I even recognized some that 
are in my card collection. Does that make me an art collector? :-)
It's a very nice exhibit, all in one room so it's easy to go back and 
forth and look at things more than once. It's all in the Asian wing 
of the museum, so there are other things to look at on the way to the 
sumo room.
I took a lot of pictures of the real art, but I have no place to post 
them for anybody to see. If anyone could do that, I could send them 
to you. The only problem is that they don't let you take flash 
pictures and when I turn the flash off on my camera, it locks in a 
very slow shutter speed. That tends to blur a lot of the pictures.
Of course, since I went to the museum after doing the tour of the 
Boston Brewing Company (Sam Adams beer), that may have added some 
blur to the pictures too.
And I ran a 4:29:44 marathon on Monday. Not nearly my best but very 
encouraging considering the lousy medical year I had in '07.

At 10:41 11/7/2007, you wrote:
>The MFA is easy to find, and not far from the marathon route as 
>well.  If you are a sox fan, you could probably  make a day of it, 
>watch a game at Fenway, and then walk over to the MFA.  The MFA, by 
>the way, is a really great art museum with original Monets, etc, so 
>even without the sumo, its a nice place to visit.
>Take it easy Jim, and good luck with the Marathon!

         Jim
         "Chitose-Taikai"