Monday, November 21, 2005
i (heart) dead white european men! (part deux)
continuing my wanderings through the non-grimy non-underbelly of well-established-places-to-see-art-in-new-york, i give you pictures from moma, the museum of modern art.
last christmas, the manpanion gave me a gift that truly keeps on giving: a membership to moma. admission costs $20, and membership is $75, so if you're the type that goes to museums pretty often, it's quite the bargain. my membership runs out pretty soon, so i've been to the museum like 4 times in thepast 4 months. here are some highlights of what i saw during one of those trips:
paintings and drawings:
i especially liked these picasso drawings. he starte doff with the one drawing, and then kept adding to it, evolving the bull as he went.
sculpturey things:
since it was nice out, i ventured into the outdoor sculpture garden:
i also saw some video-art like...
...this video of a dead rabbit rotting...
alongside this video of a plate of fruit rotting.
though, my favorite was this video of david beckham sleeping.
the day i took most of these pictures was the same day they had a member's preview of a new exhibit moma is having called "safe: design takes on risk" which i found to be both interesting and thorougly silly. but like they used to say on "reading rainbow," 'you don't take my word for it...'
this banana bunker (which you can buy) was possibly the most ridiculous object they had in the exhibit, if not the whole museum. frankly, i'd rather have a banana phone.
this camera tree was linked up to another 'tree' that had a bunch of t.v.s on it, each of which showed what the cameras were recording:
last christmas, the manpanion gave me a gift that truly keeps on giving: a membership to moma. admission costs $20, and membership is $75, so if you're the type that goes to museums pretty often, it's quite the bargain. my membership runs out pretty soon, so i've been to the museum like 4 times in thepast 4 months. here are some highlights of what i saw during one of those trips:
paintings and drawings:
i especially liked these picasso drawings. he starte doff with the one drawing, and then kept adding to it, evolving the bull as he went.
sculpturey things:
since it was nice out, i ventured into the outdoor sculpture garden:
i also saw some video-art like...
...this video of a dead rabbit rotting...
alongside this video of a plate of fruit rotting.
though, my favorite was this video of david beckham sleeping.
the day i took most of these pictures was the same day they had a member's preview of a new exhibit moma is having called "safe: design takes on risk" which i found to be both interesting and thorougly silly. but like they used to say on "reading rainbow," 'you don't take my word for it...'
this banana bunker (which you can buy) was possibly the most ridiculous object they had in the exhibit, if not the whole museum. frankly, i'd rather have a banana phone.
this camera tree was linked up to another 'tree' that had a bunch of t.v.s on it, each of which showed what the cameras were recording:
# posted by Sweatpants Money : 11/21/2005 04:44:00 PM
