The most expensive art I've ever seen in one day

Went to MOMA today, the Modern Art Museum. Main reason for going being the two photographic exhibitions they currently have running, Henry Cartier-Bresson and a history of Women in Photography. Both excellent, not too crowded and with and entry charge of only $20, I did the rest of the six floor building and saw the likes of Klimt, Matisse, Picasso, Van Gogh, Warhol, Pollock, Khalo etc etc etc. I can take or leave some of them, some of them I understand and some of them I just don't get. I like going to galleries, one of the reasons being is that I'm often surprised just how big or small the actual original paintings are and I like to see them close up and find the detail that is lost in reproduction for publications. The other reason being is that in going to see the ones that I know I will like, I often discover new artists that I was unaware of and they can lead into some interesting new avenues to explore.

So do you know art when you see it? Of the three pics above, which one is an exhibit at MOMA?

Answer on Friday.

International Centre of Photography - its a treat

After a quiet day yesterday I stepped back into the museum arena today, with the ICP. The main exhibition that was excellent, 'For All The World To See' - Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, explores the historic role of visual culture in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for racial equality and justice in the United States from the late 1940s to the mid 1970s. This exhibition of 230 photographs, objects and clips from television and film looks at the extent to which the rise of the modern civil rights movement paralleled the birth of television and the popularity of picture magazines and other forms of visual mass media.

10/10 for the exhibition and the centre, loved it all.


The web site to accompany the work is linked below as well as the ICP itself.