Today I could finally relax and take a day off. So I headed to the museums. At 14F and 200 hundred people waiting to get into the Guggenheim, I skipped the China show there and headed to the MOMA for the Louise Bourgeois show. These were mainly her focus on printmaking later in life.
There were two impressive bronze spiders, but frankly I was underwhelmed.
What was worth the trip was a show called The Long Run, which features new experimental work by long established masters like Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Gerhard Richter and others. Most inspiring were the towering quartet by Cy Twombly called The Four Seasons which he painted in Italy.
Well worth seeing are two side by side shows at the MET as well. Michelangelo's drawings - a rare collection from as many as ten countries of 500 year old fragile sketches showing the great artist's artistic development and process. My favorite however is the retrospective of David Hockney's work from his days in art school to his more recent forays into digital art. Most spectacular are his room size portraits of friends like Christopher Isherwood and then his monumental multi-panel landscapes of the British countryside. They are breathtaking for their scale, their color and their tender love and reinterpretation of a much studied landscape.
There were two impressive bronze spiders, but frankly I was underwhelmed.
What was worth the trip was a show called The Long Run, which features new experimental work by long established masters like Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Gerhard Richter and others. Most inspiring were the towering quartet by Cy Twombly called The Four Seasons which he painted in Italy.
Well worth seeing are two side by side shows at the MET as well. Michelangelo's drawings - a rare collection from as many as ten countries of 500 year old fragile sketches showing the great artist's artistic development and process. My favorite however is the retrospective of David Hockney's work from his days in art school to his more recent forays into digital art. Most spectacular are his room size portraits of friends like Christopher Isherwood and then his monumental multi-panel landscapes of the British countryside. They are breathtaking for their scale, their color and their tender love and reinterpretation of a much studied landscape.
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