Monthly Archives: December 2011
Custos Cavum at the Asia Society
U-Ram Choe created this moving sculpture of aluminum shaped like an alligator, but actually a “Custos Cavum.” Now this piece unnerved me when I first saw it. It has little motors that created many hissing sounds as it moved the … Continue reading
Anatomical Painting at the Whitney Museum of Art
I encountered this painting on the second floor of the Whitney Museum of Art. It was created by Pavel Tchelitchew in 1946, right after World War II. I wondered if the war had any significance on the drawing. It shows … Continue reading
Ezra Jack Keats at the Jewish Museum
“Crunch, crunch, crunch, his feat sank into the snow.” Ezra Jack Keats illustrated this in 1962 and named in The Snowy Day. He then said that “In The Snowy Day the figure you see walking through the snow is a … Continue reading
Henri Cartier Bresson in MoMA
When I went to the MoMA, I didn’t like (by personal preference) many of the artworks that were being exhibited. In one piece, a classical artwork had a penis graffitied all over it. The murals on the walls made no … Continue reading
Think – My Video of the Snapshot Exhibition
This is a video about the Snapshot gallery that I created with two other friends. I honestly thought that the whole day would be just another event that Macaulay gave. I didn’t know that I would get so interested in … Continue reading
Bullman and Uptown Girl at MAD
Both of these installations/statues were on the same floor of the Museum of Art and Design, because they are in many ways very similar, the obvious being that they’re both made by Korean artists. However, the similarities also show for … Continue reading
Star Quilt at the American Folk Art Museum
Nora McKeon Ezell created this quilt out of cotton in Alabama in 1977. He used the eight pointed Bethlehem star and changed the shapes of the points in order to create this piece. It is apparently endowed by the Great … Continue reading
A Wynton T-Shirt Conversation with Bill Peaks
As I mentioned earlier in the term, I like to collect art in the form of T-shirts. I was walking by the Metropolitan Museum of Art when I saw a man advertising T-shirts that showed a particular silhouette. “Is that … Continue reading
Lobster and Cat at the Guggenheim
Pablo Picasso painted Lobster and Cat in 1965 with oil on canvas. I saw this artwork at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum amid many other pieces, which I thought were getting a little too serious and melancholy for me to enjoy. … Continue reading
The Stettheimer Dollhouse at the Museum of the City of NY
Carrie Walter Stettheimer created a two story dollhouse with over twelve rooms. It took her from 1916 to 1935 to complete this piece: a total of 19 years! I saw this work of art at the Museum of the City … Continue reading
