Monday, November 4, 2024

Museum Of Modern Art, 2

 More of the MoMA...

Edward Hopper, Gas, 1940; really starting to like Hopper

Picasso, Charnel House, 1945

Peter Blume, Eternal City, 1937

Magritte, The Lovers, 1928

View of one of the MoMA's cavernous interior spaces

Ecce mulier

James Rosenquist, F-111, 1964...

Obligatory Jack the Dripper

Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950

Rothko, Untitled No. 1, 1948

Kazuo Shiraga, Untitled, 1964; amazing how far art had come in
just two decades

Matisse, Swimming Pool, 1950s..."his first and only self-contained and site-specific cut-out"

Sam Gilliam, 10/27/69; new material...acrylic

At the bottom of the cavern

Kate Crawford, Vladan Joler, Anatomy of an AI System, 2018; pretty fascinating

Nearby and possibly associated with the above; last time
we saw a life-sized Google pin was outside their headquarters
in Mountain View

Otobong Nkanga, Cadence, visual bit

Mike Kelley, Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites, 1980s?;
enlarge to see all the stuffies

Richard Serra, Equal; among the things we really like at the Guggenheim
Bilbao are the massive Richard Serra iron sculptures; here is a much
smaller installation...OK to touch them...

Lastly: art or not art? I say it is art; therefore it is; QED

Midtown by night; definitely art


1 comment:

Tawana said...

I think I am always amazed at the amount of money people will pay for "modern art." Rothko, for example, commands millions of dollars for a canvas that is completely painted orange...no other thing on the canvas.