Friday 4^th June (pm), Saturday 5^th June and Sunday 6^th June (Washington DC, City Centre, Capitol Hill and Barracks Districts):

Weather hot, humid and wet (Sunday only)

Francesca and Rob have very kindly taken me out with them in the evenings, I have therefore spent time with them at Tunni’s Tavern on 7^th Street and also at a party to celebrate the Belmont Stakes horse race on Saturday. On Sunday I spent time at the Hirshhorn Sculpture Gallery seeing an exhibition about Yves Klein and associated exhibitions focussing on the use of pure colour in art, sculpture and installation art (Klein, Kapoor, Rothko, Turrell etc). There is also a fantastic film by Chris Chong Chan Fui using a fixed camera to track the daily comings and goings in a Kuala Lumpur tower block.http://hirshhorn.si.edu/exhibitions/index.asp?key=19. I also saw the exhibitions of Tibetan paintings and Cambodian bronzes at the Freer / Sackler Galleries:http://www.asia.si.edu/