The Arts in NYC Fall 2012

This past Friday my friend convinced me to go with her to the MoMA to see the Goldfinger exhibit. At first I thought, “ugh MoMA on a Friday,” but I actually got excited cause I really like the 007 films; I think my friend’s excitement rubbed off on me too, she’s a huge film buff and was having a nerdgasm just thinking about it. But once we got to the third floor and saw the actual exhibit we were really, seriously disappointed. The actual exhibit was about one-sixth the size of our IDC classroom. It was just a tiny corner on the third floor, and all it contained were a few pictures and the like.

Thank goodness the exhibit on the rest of the room was good, otherwise it would have been a pretty bad trip to the museum. There were a few items that really caught my eye, and made me wish I ow

ned them.

They weren’t the typical works of art you would think of since, they were regular things you’d find in your house or at the supermarket.

The first things to really catch my eye were these really cool box set items.

One of them was a red rectangular prism with wheels on the bottom. At first I thought it was just a bigger version of a toolbox or some artists weird take on common house items, but soon realized that these items were actually used pretty commonly. I was pretty off mark with my guess, after taking a look at the picture next to the box, apparently it was used to hold groceries. Although I wouldn’t mind having it in my place to hold spices and what not.

These are the ones that seem really amazing to have, especially since they save so much space, but you know you’d never be able to buy. The giant purple square is a lounge, bed, bed stand and an office all in one. It’s like the perfect thing to have in a small studio apartment, especially for a student. The item in this exhibit that I really love is the mini kitchen. It’s smaller than a cabinet and has almost everything. It has drawers the perfect size for different cooking utensils, and plates. It even has a stove, and a cutting board. I didn’t get a good look so I couldn’t tell if the largest opening was a small oven or a large cabinet for pots and pans.

Either way it had me housewifing over it. I think the best part that all three share is the simplicity of the design and color scheme. They are all solid colors and very basic ones too, that don’t really stand out as unnatural – they aren’t depressing or neon.

The other items that I thought were pretty interesting and I wish I had for my room was an amazing set of plates, that made me think of Japanese koi fish, and some interesting desk lamps called eclipse lamps.

 wow this basically ended up becoming more of a wish list rather than a review … It was a really interesting exhibit. We also saw some interesting appliances and decorations from different time periods made from different materials, some looked like they were made of garbage. It was really interesting. The MoMA had almost a complete make over from the last time i went. I suggest going there again if your interested in seeing some strange furniture or a really weird video.

They had a video playing of a man in all black standing on top of the camera, so it looked like his feet were pressed against the lens and you were looking up from under him. All he talked about was feet and pressure on his feet. They made it even more real by making the video play on the ceiling so you had to look straight up or lie on a couch to watch it. We stopped by to watch it for a few seconds on our way out, and all we could say was, “WTF was that?”

And finally we left for Uniqlo.