Museum Hopper

so, i went to the museum of modern art alone a random sunday . i wanted to go since they had a couple of new exhibits i wanted to see: one about dali and some new picasso sculptures . i also hadn't been in a while, so i had forgotten about how much i dislike the way moma is setup. i went to the picasso sculptures first. they had about 10 of them. it was neat to see them in person. i think he had used a lot them (or similar objects) in his paintings. it was pretty crowded near the sculptures, but i could deal with it. it was a sunday after all. so, i headed upstairs to the dali exhibit. first of all, i had forgotten that dali only painted small paintings. i think the largest one in this exhibit was about 1 foot by 2 feet. this means that you have to get pretty close to the paintings to even see them. moma finally got the persistence of time back. second of all, the moma decided to use less than half a floor for this exhibit. they had quite a few of his p...

so, i went to the metropolitan museum of art (the met) right after i went to the moma . again i visited the met because i was excited to see some of the special exhibits they had. again, i was reminded of how much better the met does with what they have. yes, the met is not easy to navigate, but what they do have control of is excellent. i visited the superhero costume exhibit (superheros: fashion and fantasy) , the j.m. turner exhibit and walked quickly through the " art of the royal court: treasures in pietre dure from the palaces of the europe ." the superhero exhibit was really well done. they had a really cool mix of actual costumes, couture and "costumes in real life." they had 2 of tobey maguire spiderman costumes, christopher reeve's superman costume, christian bale's dark knight batman costume, michelle pfeiffer's catwoman costume, rebecca romijn's mystique (x-men 3)'s "costume decals" and probably a few m...