MOMA

We finally made it to the Museum of Modern Art on Saturday {it only took us 2 1/2 years}. I've said before that I'm not a huge Museum Person, but the MOMA proved to be an exception. It was fun. It was interesting. It was lively. I really, really liked it. The collection was eclectic, exciting & incredibly different than anything I've ever seen. True, some looked like the preschool art projets I've seen my nieces & nephews create, but many were just brilliant. It was fun to seem some works that I recognized, & others that I didn't- but really liked anyway. I really liked Dan Perjovschi's exhibit. I wish that my pictures did it justice, but unfortunately, they provide only a glimpse. The exhibit took up several walls in the museum's main atrium, several stories high. It was political, funny, artistic, edgy... I thought it was great. We will definitely go back soon. Some of my favorites:

Andy Warhol - Lita Curtain Star

Dan Perjovschi (Romanian, b. 1961), who lives and works in Bucharest, has transformed the medium of drawing, using it to create an object, a performance, and an installation. In the last decade, Perjovschi has made his drawings spontaneously in museum spaces, allowing global and local affairs to inform the final result. For his first solo museum exhibition in the United States, the artist will draw witty and incisive political images, in response to current events, on one wall of The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium. Two weeks before the official opening, beginning April 19, Perjovschi will draw on the wall during public hours, allowing visitors to observe the creation of the work. The project is accompanied by a pamphlet created by the artist.

Karin Sander - the last work is entitled Wallpiece 24 x 18. Not one of my favorites, per se, but definitely intriguing. I wish that I could think of something insightful & intelligent to say about her, uhm, blank pieces of art.

Vincent van Gogh- The Olive Trees {1889}

Vincent van Gogh- The Starry Night {1889}

"This morning I saw the country from my window a long time before sunrise," the artist wrote to his brother Theo, "with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big." Rooted in imagination and memory, The Starry Night embodies an inner, subjective expression of van Gogh's response to nature. In thick sweeping brushstrokes, a flamelike cypress unites the churning sky and the quiet village below. The village was partly invented, and the church spire evokes van Gogh's native land, the Netherlands.

Martin Keppenerger - War is No Nice {1985}

Henri Matisse- Landscape at Collioure {1905}

Jackson Pollock- Shimmering Substance {1946}

Joan Miro- The Birth of the World {1925}

Rene Magritte- The Lovers {1928}

Pablo Picasso- Three Musicians {1925}

Constantin Brancusi- Fish {1930}

Pablo Picasso- Pregnant Woman {1950}

Claude Monet- Agapanthus {1918-26}

Claude Monet- Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond {c. 1920}