This day was pretty much entirely consumed by MOMA, which is free on Fridays after 4pm. So after a mellow morning spent hanging out at K-Dog and Dunebuggy's cafe, we got on the subway and managed to get to the museum around 3:30. The line for free tickets already wrapped 2/3's of the way around the block but once 4 rolled around it moved pretty quickly. Once inside and after the bag and coat check me and James pretty much parted ways and investigated the whole place at our leisure. This turned out to be completely exhausting and by the 4th floor I was in a daze. I had started taking notes to supplement pictures but after awhile I gave up and just photographed labels. So Ima try and go back nxt Friday and start from the top and move down. They should have up a few new exhibits by then too.
So, MOMA:
Yoko Ono
Gordon Matta-Clark 'Bingo' 1974
Paul Sharits 'RayGun Virus' 1966
This was pretty awesome and disorienting. Lots of clattering,droning and flashing lights. There were several people laying upon the floor
This was part of the special exhibit about... Pop/Deco appliances and design?
This is cute
This is a familiar coffee maker
Calder 'Lobster Trap & Fish Tail' 1939
Richard Lippold 'Variation Number 7: Full Moon' 1949
This is a short film made by Len Lye. These are not recorded films but rather he painted and marked upon film celluoids to make hand made films.
I'm not sure which this is from but it occurred between 1935-39
The architectural design section was quite interesting. There was alot of information about it but I was mostly surfing around the room.
Paulo Mendez da Rocha 'Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, Sao Paulo' 1987
scale model, steel
Ant Farm
'House of the Century' Mojo Lake, Texas 1971
Renzo Piano Building Workshop 'New York Times Building NY'
Saurbruch Hutton 'GSW Headquarters'
This is where I gave up taking notes, so there might not be labels for everything now.
Ingo Maurer 'Wo bist Du, Edison...?' 1997
'We will cut your fingers off if you touch' or 'This is made of razors'?
This was a demonstration of Cartesian Wax and the flexibility of the processes being developed
The Photography Exhibits.
I think the special exhibit was about women in photography. There was also a selection of new artists or something like that.
These prints were all turn of the century approximately 1870 to 1900
Platinotypes are rad
As are cyanotypes
Some more contemporary stuff
Alex Prager 'Susie and Friends' 2008
Cindy Sherman 'Untitled #92' 1981
So there was also an exhibition centered around architecture and city design. Sustainability?
This one really stood out because it utilized stereoscopic images to better illustrate the buildings. I'd really like to learn more about the design of the viewers and the math behind that a little more. How to scale it up to something bigger would be cool.
Alejandro Aravena 'Renca Community Modeling Workshop' 2008
There was a helicopter inside the building
On to Modernism, Surrealism, and Pop art
Jasper Johns
Barnette Newman 'Notes' 1968
This is part of a series of 18 etchings
Seurat
DuChamp slays me. I overheard a slightly confused description of what a ready made piece of art is:
"So you take two things, I mean one thing, and break it. And you call it art. And it's art"
Just.Like.That
Kathe Kollwitz is mind blowing. The emotional content of some of her work is almost palpable, dripping out like ink from her work.
This is the coolest Miro piece I have ever seen. This needs to be included in more art history curriculum.
This has inspired me alot in the past.
Meret Oppenhiem 'Object in Fur' 1939
David Alfaro Siquieros has got to be one of my favorite Mexican muralist of all time.
The mixture of the different enamel paints in this piece is psychedelic.
The sculpture garden was pleasant
This was a video installation that I passed on the way out. I saw another video installation like this one at the BETA fest thing in Bushwick on Sunday. I wonder if it was inspired by this.
We were both starving after we got out of there.
This is James eating a pretzel
Walking to the subway station through Times Square.
This place was crazy packed full of people.
So that was some of the MOMA. It is exhausting.
I'll try to post some more stuff later or tomorrow about Saturday and Sunday which was the Botanical Gardens, Brooklyn Museum, and BETA in Bushwick
PS:While walking around the previous day, Andrew had pointed out a Pirate Bay symbol on the upper corner of a building right around the block. Any thoughts?
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