Storage

One of my favorite things about interning at museums is having behind the scenes access to the collection not on display.  It's amazing to see all of the objects they care for.  Here's a peak at the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum's storage.

I Art This Birthday

I spent my birthday with great friends, great art, and the great outdoors.  MASS MoCA has a fantastic exhibit of Sol Lewitt's work.  Hurry, it's only going to stick around for another 25 years.

Savage Beauty

I saw the McQueen exhibit at the Met a few weeks ago and it's one of the best exhibits I've ever seen.  The objects, the design, the music, the lighting... it's not to be missed.  Hair, feathers, flowers and clam shells make up some of the most innovatively designed garments of our time.  Here's a few teaser images.

Shapes!

Tonight I went to an event at MoMA for Shape Lab, an exhibit for children to explore shapes. The coolest idea they employed was painting magnetic sections onto the wall where you could create shapes out of giant magnets. Their text panel was made of magnets on the wall too. I enjoyed playing.

work time = play time

As an excellent start to NY fashion week, I got to poke around in the Museum of the City of New York's fashion archives. It's quite a closet. I spent some quality time in the '60s. It made me vow to dress for success every day. Here's some pieces that took my breath away.

Yes, please!

Coco

J'adore

an ode to laser cutting

Tonight I went to MAD for their pay what you wish evening to check out Slash: Paper Under the Knife. I particularly enjoyed Stones and Rocks and Stones and Bones by Anderw Scott Ross. Here's a glimpse of his work.

Tim Burton

I finally got to the Tim Burton exhibition at MoMA. It was great except for the crowd. Fortunately, it's open until late April, so I can swing by again to get a better look at everything. I enjoyed the 3D objects the most, plus there's some priceless projects of his from grade school. I overheard a man saying, "who would keep all this stuff?" and a woman responded, "his mother!" Of course.

MAD for some bags, bowls & spoons

Just got back from The Museum of Art and Design where I enjoyed viewing Yuken Teruya's Ten Cut Paper Bags. These images are of similar pieces, but MAD doesn't let you take photos and they don't have any of these images on their site. Yuken lives in Brooklyn. Maybe I'll see him in Prospect Park with Keri Russell (saw her in the park last week 5 seconds after seeing a whole spread in New York Magazine about how she lives in my neighborhood).

There are so many cityscape themed objects to be found but this one just glowed- literally, they displayed it on a lit pedestal, which is the only way to see it. I am of course referring to Jay Musler's Cityscape Bowl from 1989.

There's a time lapse video of Jill Townsley's Pyramid falling down slowly over time. Apparently the plastic in the spoons breaks down and it's supposed to represent art's impermanence... or something. I was hoping it would fall while I was there. It didn't.