MoMA & THE MET: A Visual Study

While in NY we went to both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. Both are great museums i have visited in the past but Maree had not been to either one and we needed to do something that allowed her to sit down. We'd been walking like crazy for days and her leg was killing her.

I hoped to get some shots of the architecture of MoMA but that didn't work out at all so, again i resorted using my phone most of the time. Of course everything is in a glass box full of reflections and covered in fingerprints, which normally drives me nuts, but this time i decided to embrace that aspect of the subject matter and got some interesting results. Take a look.

It's unbelievable how much stuff they hauled over from Egypt back in the day.

A really cool sarcophagus. I was too dumb to find out what it was made of.

One of the things i still hate about using a phone is how difficult it is for me to hold it straight while i press whatever button i use to snap the picture. The crazy parallax in all directions is also super bothersome.

At the MET we only had about 2 hours at most to look around. We covered the Egyptian section, then the indoor sculpture garden and the Medieval section. If you don't have enough time i think it's really better to just use the time you do have to enjoy things at a casual pace rather than try and rush all over the museum cramming as many sights in as you can. You can always go back. The MET is large enough that you can't properly absorb everything on one visit anyway.

Some of these are real and some are reflections.

The sculpture garden has a nice outdoor feel and a restaurant.

A group of horsemen came by.

One large wing of MoMA was, at the time, an architecture exhibit on Henri Labrouste, full of interesting scale models. I was not familiar with him, but Henri Labrouste was a French architect in the 1800's who was one of the first to realize the importance of iron frame construction.

One of the best compositions i have made with a cordless telephone. Managed to hold it straight this time. This is a model of a cross section of the National Library of France, in Paris. It is a spectacular building. The table was covered in photographs and drawings of it.

The Sainte-Geneviève library in Paris (foreground).

A really cool model.

The other side of the model was cut open so you could see how intricate the detail was inside.

Maree's achilles tendon was seriously injured and she couldn't walk very far on it, so i got to push her around in a wheelchair at both museums. If you need a wheelchair, MoMA has far better wheels.

A close up of the previous picture. It was pretty funny.

Maree was at a loss but mesmerized at the same time when presented with a floor full of lint with mirrors stuck in it.

This piece is a a large plate of metal on the floor with another plate of metal in an opposing position on the ceiling. Not safe for earthquakes. You should always be thinking of earthquakes.