The Korean art exhibit was smaller than I expected but still quite lovely. It's true that pictures of the faint green-blue ceramics do not do them justice. Up close they are almost ethereal looking.

Something else I found interesting was a video describing Korean painting. It said there were different kinds, the album, which was more intimate, for one person to look at at a time, and that often had several pictures with a related theme and sometimes accompanied by poetry; there were the paintings that are hung on walls and columns that can be enjoyed by several people at the same time, and there are the scroll paintings which unroll and are kind of like panoramic photographs and the experience for the viewer is kind of like a journey.

The Japanese Pavilion is a place to go if you are ever having a very stressful day. It is so quiet. There are no right angles, everything is curved in this multi-leveled space and the lighting is subdued. I read that the lighting was purposely very soft because the silk material gives off its own light and Japanese paintings are meant to be seen in natural light and therefore change according to the time of day or even the season. The netsuke are also really incredible here--the imagination, attention to detail and intricacy are astounding.