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Just when the humidity in Ha Noi makes you hate yourself for being alive, the de Young Museum, in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, gives you more reasons to fly across the ocean: there’s a current show with works by Shi Guorui, out of Beijing. He “uses early photographic technologies to create large-scale pinhole photographs and photograms.”
And then there’s the exhibition of Hiroshi Sugimoto, beginning July 7^th. The de Young Museum website describes him as “one of Japan’s most important contemporary artists,” but some would say he’s among the best in the world. A couple of years back there was at a smaller exhibit at the Asia Society in New York: The images of Buddha and others of objects in his collections aren’t as exciting, but with 100 photos on display, the de Young exhibition should be stunning. His seascapes are calming, but also abstract and haunting – just as his other photographs are often disturbing.  

Sell your house, sell your spouse, rob a bank.  You too can, and should, get up in the morning and get lost inside one of his prints.
http://www.thinker.org/deyoung/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?exhibitionkey=658