A Visit from Momma!

August came and we had our yearly mom visit!  These photos will be a bit out of order...and I am not sure why I'm telling you that, because there's no way you would ever know otherwise.  Well anyway, one of the things I wanted to do while mom was in town was go to MoMA to see the "Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000" exhibit that they had going on.  I won't lie - the main reason I wanted to go is that I had seen that part of the exhibit would include pieces from Pee Wee's playhouse!  Unfortunately they didn't allow any photography in the exhibit, only at the "display" out front.  Don't we just look look like kids?



We also decided to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art as well.  We had a nice walk though Central Park and then enjoyed a nice air conditioned visit in the museum.  Mom was excited to have an opportunity to see George...George Washington that is!  She'd always wanted to see the painting of George Washington crossing the Potomac, but for a long time it was not on display.


Here's mom and George.

While walking around we happened on a stairwell that had an Armenian Khatchar.  This particular one was carved between 1100-1200 AD.


We went up to the rooftop exhibit, Cloud City by Tomas Saraceno.







A walk through Central Park.





We had a really nice visit, to so many museums, dinners out and dinners in.  and of course we had our annual visit to Coney Island for a Brooklyn Cyclones game.  It was as always a good game, although there was a VERY rowdy group of kids behind us...I suppose par for the course at a minor league game.  We had a really great time, but ended up having to leave at the seventh inning, a crazy storm was approaching.





And then, as always the time came for mom to return home.  We're just looking forward to the next time we get to have her come visit.  Love that lady!!!

Friday Afternoon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Today I met my friend Cord at the Metropolitan Museum of Art after work. We spent a couple of hours walking around the museum's current special exhibitions: J.M.W. Turner's paintings, Framing a Century: Master Photographers from 1840-1940, Super Heroes: Fashion and Fantasy, and Jeff Koons: On the Rooftop.

Here's a little visual aid (a video from an exhibit and a video from the rooftop overlooking Central Park):



This exhibit was really nice - it had a bunch of the actual costumes used in the movies (including most recently from Iron Man and The Dark Knight), but additionally it had designer interpretations of the costumes as well. The video is of a cool hologram of Clark Kent/Superman. Unfortunately the hologram can't do much more than change back and forth...but I thought it was a neat idea.




The rooftop was BEAUTIFUL, again reaffirming my love for Central Park. When Cord and I arrived at the museum they had the rooftop garden listed as "closed" on account of the on-again/off-again rain we'd been getting all day here. By the time we'd visited the other exhibits, the rain had cleared leaving us with nothing but blue sky and sunset to enjoy on the roof (which they re-opened).

The sculptures by Koons were fun and colorful. The "Balloon Dog" was my favorite, although I also really like the idea behind the "Coloring Book" sculpture - this being the big blob of almost translucent looking color at the very beginning of the video. This sculpture was supposed to be the crazy color filling a coloring book outline of Piglet from Winnie the Pooh (with the outline removed). Clever.