I know less about art than I do about food, so it made sense to head to the National Art Gallery in Kuala Lumpur for a Culture Vulture Sunday experience. And I got lucky. The main exhibit on display consisted of installation pieces (sculpture, found object, etc) from the gallery’s permanent collection. I enjoy that kind of art quite a bit.

The other exhibit on the ground floor showcased the street art and graffiti of Kuala Lumpur. Spending a lot of time near the Klang River as I do, I’m very aware of the popularity of large street art on the cement containment walls of the river. It was enjoyable to view the street art that I see every day around the city in a new context on the walls of a museum.

The building housing the National Art Gallery was as much an attraction as the art itself, and strolling up the winding platforms from floor to floor was fun.

And on the way to the gallery, I made my usual accidental discoveries, such as stumbling across the aging but still impressive Culture Palace (Istana Budaya) and the completely sealed-off Titiwangsa Lake along with some time-lapses of the sometimes chaotic but always polite Kuala Lumpur traffic.