MOMA: A WOW!

Following my jaunt in the park, I met up with John & we went to MoMA, expressly to see the Tim Burton exhibition that Marita told us about. It was gone. But we didn't know that until we had bought tickets & entered the "special exhibition" space on the 6th floor. And boy, was it special. It was a bunch of live re-performances of work by Marina Abramović entitled, "The Artist Is Present." Well, she wasn't present, as luck would have it. But there were a ton of other naked performers doing strange things: running at full speed into solid walls, screaming at each other with their faces 1/4" apart, standing back-to-back with their hair knotted together. Oh yes, this was art. If you like to see naked women crucified high up on a gallery wall, or lying on a large cross-shaped block of ice, this is for you. If you like looking at a grisly photo of bloody bones on the wall, then turning to find a big pile of them picked clean, this is for you. If you like stuff that is normal, this probably isn't for you. Fortunately, they had other art as well. I had never noticed the dog lying under the table in this Picasso. You won't notice it in my photo, either, since it's so @%#*! dark:

Wonder how much force it would take to knock one over?

You try it, kid:

Clearly this artist doesn't know how to spell.

I couldn't read a single one!

When Kristin becomes an ophthalmologist I'm totally buying these for her. Or will more likely steal them from the museum since I don't have that kind of cash. Maybe if I could paint like this I'd have more money. I hate my life.

If your ham looks like that, 

stab it in the eye & lay off the Absinthe:

Please, sir, you're blocking the Pollack!

That sculpture looks like a wiry monster

sneaking up on those two with claws ready:

He'll grab them while they're distracted
by this painting as bright as the sun:

A tapestry embroidered with the names

of the 1000 longest rivers in the world.

Boringest tapestry ever:

Yep, that's a flag all right.

Gotta love the Warhols:

Looks like they made that chick from Iron Man into soup:

Fun way to display photographs. Of naked people.

Which you can see up on the 6th floor.

But these are more attractive than those were:

I like the tiger face in this one by Joan Miró. 

But good lord, Miró, what are you trying to say here?

That's a lot of circles!

Wooden cutouts of SCUBA divers.

I'd be much less nervous doing SCUBA without the water:

Hey, I think I recognize this place:

If you look really closely you can see me & John
in the tiny bus, waving as we leave MoMA.

I could make fun of art for hours. What a blast!