MoMA

On Monday a friend took us to the Musuem of Modern Art and got us in for half price. The main temporal attration was an exhibition Richard Serra's sculptures. Most of his smaller (and earlier) work just looked like shit you'd find lying around in an old shed to my uncultured eye but his large iron sculptures were great to walk through. They looked something like this:




Walking through the figure 8 one was lots of fun. I did it twice.

There was also on display a large collection of significant artworks from their permanent collection, a photography exhibition and one entitled 'What is Paining?' but by far my exhibition was the 'Architecture and Design Galleries' (the 'Design' part) which showcased significant significant designs of the past and currently developing methods. My favourites were products designed using Rapid Manufacturing and a method for digitally weaving cloth such that it doesn't unravel when you cut it (more interesting in practice, than theory). Also enjoyed the '50 years of Helvetica' display.

After we were kicked out of the museum at close we spent ages in their fantastic design store full of very expensive but awesome things that are fun to play with, look at, and maybe buy.