On my recent trip to New York City, more specifically Manhatten, I also took the opportunity to view a work by Chow and Lin from their “Poverty Line” series, which MoMA had acquired, a great honour for a Singaporean art collective. This work featured tomatoes as the device for communicating their messages on relative wealth and deprivation.We also spent time at other museums. Kudos to my friends Stefen Chow and Lin Huyi! 👏👏👏
https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/997)
At the Guggenheim Museum, we saw early paintings by European artists like Degas and Picasso, that reveal how they started before they evolved into what they became famous for. A patient meander up the spiral museum’s pathway is an inherent part of the experience, to culminate in a view of its beautiful ceiling and skylight.
At the Cooper Hewitt Museum which we almost did not enter as part of it is under renovation, we saw an exhibition about stage designer E. Devin. Besides designing stages for pop musicians like U2 and Take That, she also designed stages for operas like Parsifal, Don Giovanni and Macbeth. Her thought process and designs took my breath away, revealing the energy she exerted to gain a depth of understanding of the personalities and the works she was designing for. It was a lovely, unexpected surprise on this trip.
At the Museum of Arts and Design, we saw some gorgeous ceramic pots and timber objects.
I loved all the objects but my highlight was the video of a dancer sliding gracefully within an attire of glass plates that rattled as she morphed into reptilian like creatures, especially when she “moulted” her “skin”, to start her dance all over again.
There is so much to enjoy in New York, where artists of the world converge!
My Arts Bucket : Life is an Endless Stream of Goosebump Moments! 