Weeknotes #339

Emma, John and Rowan finished school for the term which of course means we’re now in Hell. I plan to switch to working from home two days a week rather than three but I’m not sure what we’re going to do to keep them occupied. Oh, and the summer heat is oppressive enough that I think we might actually be in Hell. Rowan wanted to go out on a shinkansen and so I made a deal that if we did that, we had to go to a museum first. I thought the easiest choice (given its relative proximity to Tokyo Station) was the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Wikipedia). I’ve written about MOMAT before (the abbreviation is not a typo) and it remains one of my favourite galleries in Tokyo almost because of its relative lack of popularity. I wasn’t sure what to expect from Hiroshi Sugimoto: Extinction but I thought it was excellent. I’m not familiar with Sugimoto and while the exhibition is arguably the equivalent of a greatest hits album, for someone new to work this was great. I must say that Rowan…