Museums

So we have seen some museums. These museums do not only hold great artworks but their architectures are quite pleasing to look at.

MoMA looks like any other glass-walled buildings in NY, but it has a few nice touches inside. It has a hall 4 levels tall with clean and sharp contrast of color and geometry. With the artworks the space becomes an artwork itself.

I have just found that MoMA had been closed for 2 year and a half in 2001 for a complete make-over and was only re-opened on Nov 20, 2004. The building and the interior is designed by the Tokyo-based architect Yoshio Taniguchi. The new building has almost doubled its gallery space. NY Times has an article for the re-opening.

Met. Although we arrived NY at 2 on Saturday, Met happens to close at 9 pm on Saturday. So we arrived Met at 3 and stayed until it closed, but we still couldn't go over everything. We ended up walked the African arts very briefly and skipped the Egyptian mummies all together. As we walked the Greek sculpture at night, the lightnings made the hall glow like jewels. I have been there during the day a couple of years ago, but the hall didn't look the same during the night.


Fogg Art Museum, Harvard. It is only a small museum but it has done a good job in blending modern and Renaissance architectures.



p.s. I took all these picture with my G9. Sue bought me a nice Canon leather case designed for G9. It binds to the camera the sweet old range finder camera way: the front part of the case swing open to expose the lens and viewfinder, now with the back part swings open also to expose the LCD.