MoMA

Sorry, that wasn't my 100th post. She's pretty but can she count?

The Museum of Modern Art in New York is spectacular. I am intentionally making next years trip longer so I can spend more time there among other things.

Here are a few of my super favorite highlights! Enjoy!

'Chair No. 41' (1881) designed by Austrian Michael Thonet.

This is 1881 IKEA. Flat pack furniture. It is beechwood and cane and is the worlds first flat pack furniture. First designed to meet the needs of mass production and distribution in 1858.

I love the idea that in 1881 there was someone looking curiously at their new chair and saying,

"Are we meant to have an extra screw?"

I love biological modern art!

This is a series of Tissue Culture Art Projects by the School of Anatomy and Human Biology at the University of Western Australia. It was referred to as 'The Pigs Wing Project'.

Proving that pigs can fly!

'Porca Miseria!' Chandelier (1994) by German Ingo Maurer.

This is totally awesome! Its a Chandelier that looks like a set of china and silver cutlery has exploded and is suspended in the air. Influenced by cinematic slow motion explosions, it is the artists rebellion against fashionable contemporary design.

I want one!

This is 'Drawing Restraint 9: Shimenawa' by Matthew Barney. This work was done in 2005 and the artist was born in 1967. Its a chromatic color print.

There are two incredible things that got me about this. It appears that the couple in the print are wet and only their severed torsos are floating on what looks like a milk bath. Its a divine visual effect, your brain really thinks when looking at this.

But the second, and my favorite draw card about this work is the symbolism. The passionate embrace and the two knives at the ready. So true, don't you think? How vulnerable we make ourselves in that situation, both ready to defend yourselves emotionally if you need to.




This work is breathtaking. You sort of need to be there. While a lot of the modern art around it was making noise and vying for you attention. This one kind sat there quietly but its asymmetrical aesthetic and humble color drew me to it. You feel balanced and happy when you are looking at this.

David Navros 'VI:XXXII' (1966) Vinyl lacquer paint on shaped canvases.



'Untitled' (1990) by Christopher Wool. This work is commanding, taking up almost an entire wall. it is part of a series of enamel on wood language-based black-and-white works. The expression was used in the 1957 movie, Sweet Smell of Success, written by Ernest Lehman and Clifford Odets.

I love this phrase, its is said to indicate that a dirty job has been done.

Question: "Did you take care of it?"

Response: "Cats in bag, bags in river."

Oh God it was all marvelous! I want to go back now : (