Museum Hopper

i went to the fashion institute (fit) museum on a saturday afternoon to check out the new exhibit. i was very impressed. as usual, the museum is free. one half of the museum was closed (no exhibit), but the other half had their new exhibit, seduction . it was quite beautiful. the exhibit covers about 250 years of women's fashion displaying how the female shape and clothing that covers it has changed. they have some beautiful gowns, corsets, and accessories. i loved one of the dresses . it was designed by cristobel balenciaga . it is designed with "black net lace, black silk and a pink satin ribbon" tied around the waist. i really liked the simplicity of it and then the pop of the pink ribbon. i also really liked this dress for the intricate drapping/wrapping by halston . after this visit, the museum which was on the border between a B+ and an A- got bumped up to an A- after excellent execution on this exhibit. times visited: 2 time in museum: 30 minutes overal...

last weekend, my dad and sister were in town and we headed up to the american museum of natural history . we were there for quite a while. we started out checking out the " animals of north america ." always a pleasure. every animal from alaska was bigger than the other animals in the family...everything is big in alaska. we also checked out the " hall of ocean life " to obviously, check out the ocean animals. i love the sea otter! then of course we had to head upstairs to check out the dinosaurs! i finally identified what drives me crazy about the dinosaur exhibit. if you head up the main stairs/elevator, you have to cut through half of the exhibit to get to the true exhibit entrance. otherwise, you start with dinosaurs, then you go back in time to the first vertebrates, then you get to the wooly mammoths (and early humans) and then you head back to dinosaurs. you are really supposed to start with the vertebrates, then the dinosaurs (both sections in ...

i went to the getty with my boyfriend and some of our friends that live in LA. it had been raining in LA for the past few days. we were lucky that we hit about a 4 hour rain-free hours. the great news about the rain is that it cleared a lot of the smog...we could see all the way down to long beach (supposedly). i had no idea what to expect when we went to the museum. it is up on this hill that you take a cable car up to the top of the mountain that overlooks LA, the valley, etc. the museum is composed of lots of separate museums, so going on a day with good weather is more important than i realized. they also have these pretty gardens that wind about the place. another nice thing about this museum is you just pay to park ($10). we saw a couple different exhibits while we are there. the first one was the belles heures (the beautiful hours) of the duke of berry. they were on loan from the metropolitan museum of art in new york city. we also checked out the tango with the cows:...

i went to the rubin museum today to look at their new exhibit on embroidery from india and pakinstan . it was busier than usual at the museum, more noisy children than usual...also, a lot of people must have been eating in the cafe on the first floor because the entire place smelled like soy sauce and asian food. i saw the exhibit, color & light: embroidery from india and pakistan . it was interesting. the museum had lots of different examples from the various states of india and pakistan. i liked the clothing the best. it was interesting to see how small the people were that wore them. most of the fabric was recent compared to some of the other exhibits i have seen at the rubin, as in it was from the last 200 years. i, also, went downstairs and looked at the last nomads: photographs from inner magnolia by a yin . the photographs were all in black and white. looking at them, i was transferred to another place. i guess slowly the horses/goats are being replaced with ca...

this weekend, we (visitors and the roommate and i) headed to the morgan library to finish our christmas in new york tour. to be honest, i also really wanted to see their manuscript of a christmas carol . they were very good sports. the visitors really like the babar exhibit. we spent the most time in this section. everyone seemed to like it from the little kids to the "grown ups" wandering around. the exhibit is broken up into a room for the father's book and a room for the son's. reviewers have said that they have never seen a series written by two people so seamlessly integrated and transitioned. personally, i never realized it was written by two different people. we did see the only manuscript (not just remaining, the only one ever) of charles dickens' a christmas carol . he wrote it in 6 weeks and couldn't afford lots of paper this manuscript is a mess. we also went saw john milton's a paradise lost . they have the only remaining (in ...

i visited the whitney right after i finished visiting the met . i wanted to see one of their new special exhibits: alexander calder: the paris years 1926-1933 . i didn't know this artist specifically, but recognized some of his art from the ad in the subway. he designed mobiles and circus scenes. the exhibit was very crowded. i don't think it laid out as effectively as it could have been. two of the rooms were completely empty, but the others were overcrowded. i also don't think was based on the crowd flow, but on the popularity of the art. i was happy though when i went to view the static exhibits that they had brought back out my favorite hopper painting, one of cape cod. times visited: 3 time in museum: 1/2 hr overall: A-

i went to the jewish museum today on a saturday afternoon by myself. it's free on saturdays. they currently have an exhibit titled, chagall and the artists of the russian jewish theater, 1919-1949 . some notes about this museum: they have very mean guards. i saw a guard yell at a 65 year old woman because she had a cell phone in her pocket. then, i took off my coat in the middle of the exhibit since it was very crowded and warm. i was told that i needed to put my coat back on...it was a little extreme. anyways, the exhibit...overall, i liked it. the title of it could have been more accurate: artists of the russian jewish theater and a little bit of chagall. they had some of the original paintings that chagall did from the theater, but that was about 1 room out of 7 in the exhibit. they had information about each (i am assuming it is every one) performance. overall, the exhibit was a bit crowded and there was a lot of going back and forth across the museum. they had m...