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Camille D I S C O V E R I E S
Utterback’s
Entangled
at the new
Oklahoma
Contemporary.

Paris, Please!
Culture Club

New and revamped museums around the globe offer fresh approaches THE ROMANCE OF the French
to curation and insight into emerging art communities. BY SCOTT BAY capital in the 1920s has
yet to fade, and this new
edition of Gertrude Stein’s
Autobiography of Alice B.
Toklas (Penguin Press,
SEATTLE ASIAN ART MUSEUM OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY
This Pacific Northwest institution reopens Downtown Oklahoma City’s newest $30), out March 3, will have
February 8 after a two-year renovation. creative hub features a reflective exterior you itching to hop a plane
The Art Deco structure now has a sleek that recalls the state’s wide-open skies. to CDG. Stein captures both
façade and a glass-enclosed lobby. A new Opening next month, the institution— the voice of her partner,
2,650-square-foot gallery will display a founded in 1989 as a community
selection of the museum’s 8,500 works. arts center—will offer more than 8,000 Alice Toklas, and the
FROM LEFT: JKA PHOTOGRAPHY, 2017/COURTESY OF OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY; MAIRA KALMAN/COURTESY OF PENGUIN
The inaugural installation, “Boundless: square feet of galleries, plus space for shimmering energy of
Stories of Asian Art,” explores the classes and performances. The debut the time. Kalman brings that
complexity of the continent, with works exhibition, “Bright Golden Haze,” includes world further to life with
from a diversity of media, cultures, works by Robert Irwin and Leo Villareal.
and periods. seattle art museum.org. oklahoma contemporary.org. expressive illustrations of
the couple, their home and
MUSEUM OF MODERN & KYOTO CITY KYOCERA MUSEUM OF ART travels, and contemporaries
CONTEMPORARY ART SRI LANKA Japan’s oldest public art museum like Matisse and Cézanne.
In December, Sri Lanka’s first modern-art opened in the 1930s as a tribute to
museum opened in a Colombo high-rise. Emperor Hirohito. Architects Aoki Jun Her work has a wry, witty
Three years in the making, it highlights the and Nishizawa Tezzo have reimagined quality that lends a sense
island’s vibrant community of sculptors, the Kyoto landmark, adding galleries, of immediacy to words
photographers, filmmakers, and painters. exhibition spaces, a café, and a rooftop written nearly a century ago.
The first show, “One Hundred Thousand garden. The museum holds more It’s just the thing to tote
Small Tales,” traces Sri Lanka’s artistic than 3,600 works, including notable
output since gaining independence in nihonga, traditional Japanese paintings. on your next vacation—need
1948. mmca-srilanka.org. kyoto city-kyocera.museum. we say where to? — L.H.B.

D I S P A T C H

The Hotel Meal I Can’t Stop Thinking About

“The Pullman Restaurant at the Glenlo Abbey Hotel & Estate,
nestled on 138 acres on the edge of Ireland’s Lough Corrib.
The restaurant comprises two carriages of the original
Orient Express—the actual ones in which
Agatha Christie’s book is set!”

— T+L A-LIST TRAVEL ADVISOR SIOBHAN BYRNE LEARAT (SIOBHAN@ADAMSANDBUTLER.COM)

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