At long last, my entry about my trip to the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art).
Fresh from my most enjoyable concert of the past several years, I awoke the next morning energized and ready to greet the day. Not even the expen$e of the hotel room at check-out could cloud my sunny disposition.
(Did I really just write that?!....)
Anyway, strolling out to Central Park, I decided - for the first time ever - to walk a segment of it.
From about 74th Street to 61st Street, taking care to absorb all the sights & sounds I could - the expanse of greenery, the trees, elders resting on a park bench, people walking or jogging themselves & their dogs, roller bladers, a homeless person, bicyclists, parents taking their children around the park, one distressed man having an animated cell phone conversation, lovers walking hand in hand, a veritable panoply of humanity.
Approaching Times Square, I couldn't help but stop in at Colony Music. If you need sheet music - even for obscure instruments - this is a place not to miss. I picked up some hard-to-find bass transcription books and happily proceeded to the MoMA.
The first time I visited there, in 2006, I took in a special exhibit on Dadaism, which was fantastic - I saw all the classic precursors to Surrealist Art, such as Man Ray's "Gift" (a flatiron with tacks glued to the surface) and Marcel Duchamp's subversive "L.H.O.O.Q." featuring a copy of the Mona Lisa - with mustache drawn on it. However, I didn't have time to take in much of the rest of the Museum. This time, I decided to check out the Graphic Section as well as the 19th & 20th century paintings.
So many classics!
Van Gogh's Starry Night.
Giorgio de Chirico's enigmatic works, e.g. The Song of Love
Dali's bizarre Persistence of Memory
Magritte's The Menaced Assassin
A number of brilliant Picasso's, notably Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
Gauguin, Pollock, Gorky, Warhol, Kandinsky, the list goes on and on.
Rousseau's The Dream, and Sleeping Gypsy.
Rothko, O'Keefe, Matisse, Jasper Johns.
Joan Miro's colorful constructions, especially Hirondelle/Amour.
So many brilliant - and in some cases controversial - manifestations of the human imagination.
4 hours was just not enough to take it all in...I'll have to plan a follow-up visit soon!
Fresh from my most enjoyable concert of the past several years, I awoke the next morning energized and ready to greet the day. Not even the expen$e of the hotel room at check-out could cloud my sunny disposition.
(Did I really just write that?!....)
Anyway, strolling out to Central Park, I decided - for the first time ever - to walk a segment of it.
From about 74th Street to 61st Street, taking care to absorb all the sights & sounds I could - the expanse of greenery, the trees, elders resting on a park bench, people walking or jogging themselves & their dogs, roller bladers, a homeless person, bicyclists, parents taking their children around the park, one distressed man having an animated cell phone conversation, lovers walking hand in hand, a veritable panoply of humanity.
Approaching Times Square, I couldn't help but stop in at Colony Music. If you need sheet music - even for obscure instruments - this is a place not to miss. I picked up some hard-to-find bass transcription books and happily proceeded to the MoMA.
The first time I visited there, in 2006, I took in a special exhibit on Dadaism, which was fantastic - I saw all the classic precursors to Surrealist Art, such as Man Ray's "Gift" (a flatiron with tacks glued to the surface) and Marcel Duchamp's subversive "L.H.O.O.Q." featuring a copy of the Mona Lisa - with mustache drawn on it. However, I didn't have time to take in much of the rest of the Museum. This time, I decided to check out the Graphic Section as well as the 19th & 20th century paintings.
So many classics!
Van Gogh's Starry Night.
Giorgio de Chirico's enigmatic works, e.g. The Song of Love
Dali's bizarre Persistence of Memory
Magritte's The Menaced Assassin
A number of brilliant Picasso's, notably Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
Gauguin, Pollock, Gorky, Warhol, Kandinsky, the list goes on and on.
Rousseau's The Dream, and Sleeping Gypsy.
Rothko, O'Keefe, Matisse, Jasper Johns.
Joan Miro's colorful constructions, especially Hirondelle/Amour.
So many brilliant - and in some cases controversial - manifestations of the human imagination.
4 hours was just not enough to take it all in...I'll have to plan a follow-up visit soon!
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