Summer Road Trip, Day 5: The Art of the Skull

The LACMA (Los AngelesCounty Museum of Art) is an extremely cool place.  We began our adventure there with lunch.  Here is my eggplant with vadouvan risotto, which was amazing. 

This is the most vicious umbrella in the city.  It attacked Brent and attempted to decapitate him.  Fortunately, Brent is more powerful than any silly umbrella.

The major reason we went to this particular museum is that they have some gorgeous illuminated pages of the Shahnameh.  Sadly, I took no pictures of those, although they were exhibited with some more contemporary Iranian art to give a sense of the influence of the past on the present.  We also learned that there is such a thing as Iranian wrestling pants.

We saw many great pieces of art from Teotihuacan, including this skull.

I loved the exhibit about Renaissance chiaroscuro in block printing.  We found a skull there, too.

And, to round out the experience, here is a skull sign we saw on the way to get ice cream.

Dinner, also not pictured, was delicious Persian food from the place around the corner from where we are staying.