So this morning took awhile to gain momentum but we eventually made it out the door and wandered over to a falafel joint by the name of Mamoun's in East village, I think. This was amazing, and the spicy sauce is unreal. It is recommended to only do this on a stable stomach. After spiciness and free coffee from down the street, James and I made our way over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. That is, after we took the wrong subway to the wrong side of Central Park but it wasn't too much of a walk really.
The great thing about the Met is that there is only a suggested donation rather than a fixed price, so I paid a dollar and began wandering.
So I started off wandering through the Ancient Greek and Roman art...
I got a good picture of this sculpture with the stereocamera
Busts
This level of detail in Greco-Roman sculpture is what completely boggles my mind
Polynesian Totems, I think?
Dali, Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus), 1954
This was a particularly intriguing installation. It is a small room construction with several windows available to the viewer to peer through. Each window is actually a pane of two way mirror creating an infinity effect when one looks at another window through a window.
Katrin Sigurdardottir, Boiserie, 2010
Kline is one of my favorite artists. His work with encaustic is incredibly simple but the patterns and dimension of the work is captivating.
Martin Kline, Nest, 2000
Chuck Close is unreal
This work would shake,rotate,rattle and clang for a minute or so when you pressed a foot switch
Jean Tinguely, Narva, 1981
Bridget Riley, Blaze1, 1962
Robert Rauschenberg, Canyon, 1969
Anish Kapoor, Untitled, 2007
Johan Christian Dahl, The Eruption of Vesuvius, 1824
According to the identification card attached to this painting, Dahl was at Vesuvius when it erupted and made several studies of the eruption.
Gustave Moreau, Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1864
There is an exhibit currently up at the museum that focuses on Stieglitz, Steichen and Strand. It was really nice to see these older photographic processes and documentation of progress in photography along with other inventions such as flight. There are even autochromes to see!
Jacob Christian Hansen Ellehammer, 1912
An Album of gelatin prints documenting his success in a vertical flight vehicle.
Bragaglia, Change of Position, 1911
Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Le Grande Prix ACF, 1913
William Mayfield, Orville Wright, 1913
Unknown Artist, X-ray Broken Right Femur, 1916
Man Ray, Woman, 1918
Still from 'The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari'
Unknown Artist, The Medium Eva Carriere Conducting a Seance, 1919
Edward Stiechen, Vaux #2 After Attack, 1918
Stieglitz, 1907
I think this is an autochrome of Rodin sitting in front of one of his sculptures.
Alfred Stieglitz, 1907
This is a photoseries by On Kawara titled 'I got up'. Everyday,from 1968 to 1979, he sent two friends a postcard stamped with the time he got up.
Robert H Vance, The Great Man Has Fallen, 1856
This is fantastic. This daguerrotype commemorates the death of a famous trash journalist . It is framed and has a velvet cover.
James Adam Whipple and James Wallace Black, The Moon, 1857
So after all of that I started to wander about a bit and decided to ask one of the security guard people when the museum closed. 5:45, it is 5:25. So... I wander about some more and eventually find a map of the museum and notice there is a Musical Instruments gallery! So I rush around through the Chinese art section, take a short break in th Zen garden thing and then find out I have to go all the way back around the building to make it there. I eventually make it and have about 15 minutes to check it out.
GO
Ringo Star's Snare Drum
This is interesting
Marine Trumpet is not a trumpet but can emulate the sounds of one.
One leg of the bridge is slightly detached so it will drum on the body when the string is bowed. Cool.
Bird Flute!
The photo and musical instrument sections were both very inspirational and now I just wanna make old timey photos and weird instruments.
Later:
We met up with Gabe, got some pizza, and found a one hour photo place so that I could develop some film from the stereo camera. Unfortunately they could not scan the negatives due to the fact that they aren't standard 35mm frames. So I gotta find somewhere that'll be able to scan them before I can post any. Boo.
After that we caught the end of a show at the Knitting Factory. Twas Human Eye and something else. It was alright but we only caught the end of the set.
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