Blossom and art around the National Gallery of Australia


It being Spring there is a lot of blossom around the outside of the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) .  There is also art there, which I have covered in the past albeit with a small helper.   This post is in four parts:
  1. blossoms near the NGA without much art;
  2. blossoms with art;
  3. an incredible art installation in a garden which may have blossom in the future;
  4. art in a garden which raises a question.
Blossoms near the NGA
Lake shore pears and the Tower
A clump of blossom
Pear blossom and the flag display
Blossoms with art
The lack of focus in some parts of these image  is - unusually for my snaps - deliberate.  The first two of these feature some Hardenbergia and Acacia blossom with art in the background.
Ik Ook (Mark Di Suvero) behind the flowers
Bronzed (not Aussie)
Grevillea and Flugelmann cones
A few days later I was in the sculpture Garden when the Mist Sculpture was operating - sort of: it is in sore need of a new set of injectors!  However the mist can be seen in the background of this shot.
 

Turrell Skyspace
This installation is occupying the site of the car park under the previous arrangement of the Gallery.  A much better use of the area.  The artist is James Turrell.  I am told that the best time to see this work is dawn or twilight, but I saw it at 1pm and thought it was fantastic: move over Blue Poles as the signature work of the NGA.  I hope the images that follow give an idea of what it is like. The images are pretty much in the order I scored things.
The entrance
End of the entrance 'tunnel'
Looking back at the end of the tunnel
Entrance to the core
Finally, the question
As I wandered back from Skyspace towards the entrance to the main building there was action around the pears.  I realised that this was reinstalling this work near to where it was before the space was a building site. 
How many art historians does it take to install a bunch of pears?

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