whitney museum of american art
i went to the whitney museum of american art with a friend from college today. this is the first one i have been to in a while since i sprained my ankle and was somewhat immobilized for a while. i had dinner with my friend, mike, this week and we decided to go! neither has an extensive (aka: any) art background.
the top floor currently displays art that had been previously shown in the biennials. this included some beautiful peaces of art including one of the hopper paintings that i like. it was interesting to see how often certain artists had been shown (hopper had been shown over 15 times).
the rest of the museum showed the current biennial. i am not sure what the current rules were, but i believe it was that they could not have shown something previously. the art was...interesting. i was happy to have mike there with me; otherwise, i am not sure that i would have spent quite as long at the museum.
some of it was just beautiful/enjoyable. i loved this huge room of paintings of flowers by charles ray. we did not understand/enjoy most of the videos. some of it was just bizarre. i did not understand how they even come up with some of this. perhaps i needed more background than was given on the small square placard about each piece of art. we did want to touch a good portion of it. some of it, while we did not quite understand its meaning, did make us want to reach out and touch it and understand the texture.
it was an interesting visit to the museum. while i am not quite sure that this visit was worthy of the A-, this is the first visit that has made me question it. since that is the case, i will keep the A-.
times visited: 5
time in museum: 2 hrs
overall: A-
the top floor currently displays art that had been previously shown in the biennials. this included some beautiful peaces of art including one of the hopper paintings that i like. it was interesting to see how often certain artists had been shown (hopper had been shown over 15 times).
the rest of the museum showed the current biennial. i am not sure what the current rules were, but i believe it was that they could not have shown something previously. the art was...interesting. i was happy to have mike there with me; otherwise, i am not sure that i would have spent quite as long at the museum.
some of it was just beautiful/enjoyable. i loved this huge room of paintings of flowers by charles ray. we did not understand/enjoy most of the videos. some of it was just bizarre. i did not understand how they even come up with some of this. perhaps i needed more background than was given on the small square placard about each piece of art. we did want to touch a good portion of it. some of it, while we did not quite understand its meaning, did make us want to reach out and touch it and understand the texture.
it was an interesting visit to the museum. while i am not quite sure that this visit was worthy of the A-, this is the first visit that has made me question it. since that is the case, i will keep the A-.
times visited: 5
time in museum: 2 hrs
overall: A-
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