Man do I hate me some people.
I just have a really low tolerance for crowds. I mean, I’m sure there are very few people that love crowds…maybe really young guys and girls who feel like they’re constantly on spring break? Or the kind of people that are hoping that the larger the crowd the better variety of people to hook up with? Hell, I don’t know. I think most normal adults are pretty turned off by crowds. But I confess to being not normal in that I’m so turned off by crowds I will just deliberately not do shit in order to avoid them.
Case in point, I’ve been wanting to go to MOMA for ages, and put it off in part because I knew it would be a circus. And it was. But it was pretty great anyway. I wish museums were like they are on TV – where it’s just you and all this beautiful space and stunning original work on the walls that you can be alone with. But I guess museums would be out of business if it really was that way.
Anyway, I highly recommend MOMA if you’re in New York, regardless of crowds (though I bet it is less crowd-y on weekdays in either the morning or late afternoon).
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The National Building Museum and the National Gallery of Art (both in DC) are pretty nice. Very few crowds and plenty of neat stuff to look at. We even had the chance of getting autographs from some This Old House stars once. That’s how un-crowded it was.
So, does MOMA have modern art like crazy sculptures made of coat hangers? Or do they have more paintings and, what I call call “real” art?
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TK42ONE: That’s nice – I have never been to an un-crowded museum – but it’s good to know that they exist beyond films.
MOMA has all sorts of wonderful stuff. Floors four & five I believe are paintings and sculpture – more traditional modern works like Picasso, Matisse, Degas, Giacometti etc. Floor three was I think Photography, Architecture, and Drawings. Floor two was drawings, and media art (which was very modern – like “new” kinds of art), and floor one had the sculpture garden which had both very abstract and more traditional kinds of sculpture.
It was all great…and all “real”
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Very funny.
I like how your drawing looks with the colored hair.
I’m so glad we went to MOMA because I can add that Matisse to my favorites.
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That’s right, Adam, if a bitch don’t listen, grab her by the neck and MAKE her listen.
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