Today we walked 45 blocks to MOMA (the Museum of Modern Art)
http://www.moma.org/
which took about 1hr and whilst there was a reasonable queue, it was the best we've been in ever! They moved through at lightening pace and had a great cloakroom system as well which we appreciated. The weather has definitely started to feel more wintery, hovering around 6 - 10 degrees C (45-50 F) for the majority of the next few days.
There are 6 levels at MOMA which included a special exhibition by Ron Arad and a series of permanent exhibitions which included the amazing Sculpture Garden with a Giacometti (tall skinny figure like in Bourke St) and many more internationally recognized artists. The main floors were full of contemporary paintings straight out of your high school textbooks. It was however, quite crowded including at least 2 different school groups (probably Yr 10 equivalent) doing art excursions and drawing there!
There was also emphasis on Architecture and Design and one floor featured the 3D images of famous buildings including Falling Water and the Tel Aviv Recital centre which won awards.
After MOMA we headed to Bloomingdale's to check out how New Yorkers shopped and see if I could find a jacket. No such luck unfortunately.
Starving by now, we found an out of the way Chinese cook-to-order restaurant being run by a lady who could have been the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld. At least she treated us exactly the same way she treated everyone else - rudely. The food was okay and given the price, we can't complain.
Walking onto MAD - Museum of Arts & Design (http://www.madmuseum.org/) we had a much better experience. There were hardly any crowds and they had an amazing exhibition - Slash - which was all about how 40 artists from 16 countries around the world, worked with paper in all its forms. "The exhibition surveys unusual paper treatments, including works that are burned, torn, cut by lasers, and shredded. A section of the exhibition will focus on artists who modify books to transform them into sculpture, while another will highlight the use of cut paper for film and video animations" (from their website)
It was truly one of the best exhibitions I've seen, the detail and intricacy of the work - especially the hand cut paper work and the video installation of a gothic church was brilliant. We then toured their permanent collection which included jewellery, sculpture, very modern arts decoratif and paintings.
Exhausted we then took the subway home and had dinner. This evening we went to the local cinema and saw 'Trucker", which was okay.
PS We dropped the camera partway through the day and so we can't log on anymore photos at this point. You'll be the first to know if it starts working soon or whether we get a new one!
5 comments:
Oh no, what a bummer. I wondered why no photos today.
The same thing happened to your father, he dropped ours into ash at Windjana Gorge in the Kimberleys!
There's no Ted's or Michael's or Harvey Norman's but perhaps you'll find a repair shop or a good deal in NY.
You do need a camera for the next 10 days.
You need to go visit the B&H Superstore - It's incredible! It's like a Myers that just has camera gear etc. There's nothing else like it in the world. It's at 420 9th Ave, off W 33 St. You will be able to get a new camera no problems, and check out a cool store.
Thanks for the reassurance on the camera situation Mum. AJ (brilliant searching out for us), will definitely check out B&H store. Now that we bought a train ticket, we'll be able to get there easily.
I notice you're sitting in front of a Polish poster, Two from Texas hahaha.
Hi Mum
Yes there was a huge retrospective on Polish posters so I thought you'd like that. The museum had them because of their graphic importance and the fact they were one of the only nations to continuously rabel rouse throughout the post War through to Solidarnosz era.
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