After 3 days hard walking in NYC, we deserve a open day and we get it. In the morning today, I missed all three alarm of my phone and slept until 10 o’clock. I felt I could never be more comfortable in my bed. Because we wanted to get the spots more effectively, we chose to have a Chinese breakfast in Chinatown in lower Manhattan where was nearby the location we needed to go. Although we did a satisfactory sleeping, out feet were still a little aching.
Today’s first destiny was not so easy to get it. We followed google map and took some wrong way in SOHO and finally we found the small door beside the Wooster Street which was really easy to ignore. Go up through a narrow stair, the earth room was in the big room in the second floor. Standing in front of the room, the view is pretty odd for me, cuz I have never seen so much earth in a interior space. I tried to touch the earth, tried to hold the earth in my hand, tried to smell the earth, and then listened to the earth. I found it was real earth, and a little bit wet. I had to admit that I was a little confused about what the artist wanted to express. But I could feel it slightly .
Then, we moved to MOMA which was really excited to us. We knew there were many brilliant works of art in it, including some works of Van Gogh who is my favorite artist. But what attracted us first was the MOMA Design Shop in the first floor which was cooperating with MUJI, a Japanese design brand. As architects, a kind of designer, we always would like to collect some interest things which was designed creatively and produced carefully. The design shop in MOMA was the right place for us. We could feel that we found ourselves in it. After that we got up to up floors to see the real exhibits of this museum. To be honest, it’s such a huge museum for us that we could not finish all the exhibitions in a half day, so we had to choose what we wanted to get most. Before the Density vs. Dispersal, we could not wait to see the Sunflower and the Self-portrait by Van Gogh. When I was in primary school I knew these works in fine art lessons and today I finally saw the real ones. When standing in front of these works of art, it was very hard to express my feeling, actually it was just like finish one of my dreams. Later, we went to the exhibition on Frank Lloyd Wright. However, the museum would be closed in 6 o'clock that we had to have a quick visit. There exhibited some works of concepts of Wright for the urban project. “Through an initial selection of drawings, films, and large-scale architectural models, the exhibition examines the tension in Wright’s thinking about the growing American city in the 1920s and 1930s, when he worked simultaneously on radical new forms for the skyscraper and on a comprehensive plan for the urbanization of the American landscape titled “Broadacre City.””(by MOMA’s introduction) And I had decided to have a second visit for this exhibition.
Today’s first destiny was not so easy to get it. We followed google map and took some wrong way in SOHO and finally we found the small door beside the Wooster Street which was really easy to ignore. Go up through a narrow stair, the earth room was in the big room in the second floor. Standing in front of the room, the view is pretty odd for me, cuz I have never seen so much earth in a interior space. I tried to touch the earth, tried to hold the earth in my hand, tried to smell the earth, and then listened to the earth. I found it was real earth, and a little bit wet. I had to admit that I was a little confused about what the artist wanted to express. But I could feel it slightly .
Then, we moved to MOMA which was really excited to us. We knew there were many brilliant works of art in it, including some works of Van Gogh who is my favorite artist. But what attracted us first was the MOMA Design Shop in the first floor which was cooperating with MUJI, a Japanese design brand. As architects, a kind of designer, we always would like to collect some interest things which was designed creatively and produced carefully. The design shop in MOMA was the right place for us. We could feel that we found ourselves in it. After that we got up to up floors to see the real exhibits of this museum. To be honest, it’s such a huge museum for us that we could not finish all the exhibitions in a half day, so we had to choose what we wanted to get most. Before the Density vs. Dispersal, we could not wait to see the Sunflower and the Self-portrait by Van Gogh. When I was in primary school I knew these works in fine art lessons and today I finally saw the real ones. When standing in front of these works of art, it was very hard to express my feeling, actually it was just like finish one of my dreams. Later, we went to the exhibition on Frank Lloyd Wright. However, the museum would be closed in 6 o'clock that we had to have a quick visit. There exhibited some works of concepts of Wright for the urban project. “Through an initial selection of drawings, films, and large-scale architectural models, the exhibition examines the tension in Wright’s thinking about the growing American city in the 1920s and 1930s, when he worked simultaneously on radical new forms for the skyscraper and on a comprehensive plan for the urbanization of the American landscape titled “Broadacre City.””(by MOMA’s introduction) And I had decided to have a second visit for this exhibition.