Golden Lines

What seems many years ago but was in fact probably only six or seven or eight (at most nine) years ago, I remember going to the Gallery of Horyuji Treasures, a spectacular building designed by Taniguchi Yoshio, the architect who helped the New York Museum of Modern Art escape from trendiness and quick obscurity.  While the building's contents, Buddhist sculptures, are for the most part  giant yawns for me, the wonderful thing about the place is the design, the spaces, the mysteries inherent in lighting, display and small details (such as the following image, which is a metallic strip affixed to the gallery walls, and which shines and disappears as one walks through the spaces), a small but absolutely genius stroke.