MOMA fashion police
Published by Becky S February 28th, 2005 in travels, artsThe recently re-opened Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) is overwhelming. Not only is the place filled with sculpture, photos, drawings, paintings, and film, it’s filled with people. Lots and lots of people. Many of them are wearing questionable clothing. Is it art?
Exhibits A and B: a protest against the traditional repression of undergarments?
Exhibit C: an upturned collar ruins the transcendent beauty of this Rothko piece.
This last shot is a brilliant juxtaposition of fishnet stockings and horizontal art. Another museum visitor saw me taking the picture and proceeded to lift his own leg while studying the floor.
Exciting jazz show news! OK, “exciting” being a verrry relative term, especially preceding “jazz show”. Anyway, of interest if you like The Bad Plus, they’re playing in your neck of the woods, uh, tomorrow:
March
1 PHILADELPHIA, PA — Zellerbach Theatre
Well you were at MoMA! What did you expect? If you want to see fancy clothes go to the Met.
very metal, thanks for the suggestion. I checked out some iTunes previews; I could play The Bad Plus at home, but I doubt I’d have the patience to sit through an entire set of jazz (or jam bands, or any other genre subject to long, tedious solos).
I am a picky pain in the ass.
Scott, I don’t remember seeing too many fancy clothes at the Met, but it’s been a few years. I’ll be curious to see what people are wearing to the Dali exhibit on Saturday.
I’ll be wearing only a few strategically placed lobsters.
nice. what i want to know is, how come people were letting you photograph their clothes? ;p
did you see the persistence of memory? did ya throw spitballs at moma for not giving it to us, at the philly exhibit?
Well, ok–two of the people are me, so it was easy to get permission for those pics. For the other two, I had to be very sneaky.
I was surprised to see the Persistence of Memory–like you said, I thought it would be in Philly for the Dali show. It was smaller than I’d imagined.
And so many Picassos. It was hard to absorb anything, though, with the crowds and the sheer magnitude of it all.
Scott! You are going to do the Rocky Run wearing nothing the strategically placed lobsters?!? Can I take pictures?
Becky, you can feel free to take as many pictures are you want… but would you really want pictures of that?
Hey, I just report the facts. I make no judgements.
Ahh I make judgements all the time.