Museum Hopper

i decided to stop by the morgan library on saturday after my volunteering. i am really happy i did since they had the exhibit, where the wild things are: original drawings by maurice sendak . this was very timely given that the movie with the same title was just released as well. it shows some of the early drafts as well as some of the final illustrations. sendak originally had planned to name the book where the wild horses are . the morgan has an exhibit opening in 2 weeks about jane austen that i am VERY excited about, a woman's wit: jane austen's life and legacy . times visited: 6 time in museum: 20 minutes overall: A

i went to the metropolitan museum of art right after i visited the whitney . i headed to the met to see the vermeer exhibit . the vermeer exhibit is celebrating the 400th anniversary of the dutch's arrival in the new york known at that point as new amsterdam. the exhibit was very well organized. as usual, the met does a great job giving the social context to the paintings and the history behind them. tons of people were at the exhibit, but the exhibit had enough space to move around. the exhibit leaves enough space around the paintings everyone is there to see. the vermeers were amazing. the highlight of the exhibit was the milkmaid , which hasn't been in the usa since 1939. the exhibit also had 5 of his most famous paintings: a maid asleep , young women with a water pitcher , woman with a lute , study of a young woman and allegory of a catholic faith . i loved all the symbolism in the his paintings, which were so well explained in the descriptions. definitely ...

i went to the whitney museum on sunday for my 100th trip to a museum! i headed up there by myself mostly to see the georgia o'keeffe: abstraction exhibit. as expected, the exhibit was quite crowded. besides the permanent exhibit and the o'keeffe exhibit, 3 of the other floors were closed to viewers in preparation for upcoming exhibits. the o'keeffe exhibit took an entire floor which at least was well planned. the rooms were segregated by time period, which i felt was appropriate. i did not know much about georgia o'keeffe going into this exhibit. i did read this review from the nytimes as a prep going into the exhibit. it was interesting to see some of her less familiar work. the abstracts paintings were beautiful. i loved the colors; she seemed to experiment quite a bit with different shades of blue. her later works were influenced by flying around the world and her compound in arizona. the exhibit definitely displayed a side of o'keeffe's art...

last weekend, i went to the cooper-hewitt national design museum with my dad who was in town. it was my second trip there. the cooper-hewitt museum had one exhibit about sustainable design . they had an exhibit titled design for a living world . it featured 10 sustainable materials taken in new creative ideas....everything from cotton to cocoa. i recognized a few of the designers, isaac mizrahi (salmon leather), kate spade co. and maya lin who designed the vietnam memorial as well as the university of michigan wave field. it showed the design plans to the finish product. i really liked the chinese bamboo design by ezri tarazi . he took bamboo stalks converting them to lamps, clothes hangers (sort of a coat rack) and speaker and CD stands. the one unfortunate thing with this museum is that if they are working on one exhibit that only leaves one other exhibit to see. if you go to this museum at the wrong time, you really don't have much to see. times visited: 2 time in t...