Coloring Book, page 6

The Getty Museum, designed by Richard Meier, is the whitest space I've ever been in. The place is a campus with several buildings all nestled into a hillside. We took the garden tour and the combination of the white-clad buildings and the bright Los Angeles midday sun was blinding. They provide free sun unbrellas for people to use when they're strolling between buildings. Inside the museum, the best exhibits were of photography (the museum has a good collection). There was a nice group of late Rembrandt paintings as well but it got a kind of bombastic, P.T. Barnumesque treatment that was a little off-putting. (gargantuan, wall-spanning blow-ups of the paintings so you could see every brush stroke. It was educational but also a little scary for being so digitally altered and plastered on the walls.) See flickr for the original.