Category — Reviews

This is a review by Jennie Lui. Her eportfolio wasn’t working, so I am posting up her review.

Part provocative, part breathtaking and part disturbing; Louise Bourgeois’s retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum is not an exhibit to be missed; an exhibit I found both enticing and spooky at the same time. Consistent with her signature styles of “abstraction and figuration” coupled with allusive symbols, Bourgeois gives visual form to her past: memories, emotions and personal experiences from her life in prewar Paris to present day New York. All her pieces resonate bits and pieces of her history, from her childhood in Paris to adulthood in America. A few of installations really caught my attention as I made my way up the Guggenheim’s six rotunda levels. [Read more →]

Dressed from head to toe in white, Jose Obando and his band gave the performance of their lives Tuesday evening in the Baruch multipurpose room 1-107. The group was brought in to start off what is going to be an exciting Latino Heritage Month at Baruch College. It was very appropriate to start the month off with a presentation about one of the most amazing arts Hispanics contributed to today’s world: Salsa. [Read more →]

While walking in, I couldn’t help but wonder how any museum could be so crowded on a Monday afternoon. It boggles the mind how so many people have so much leisure time to browse pictures. Except this was a special case; if they didn’t have time, they made time, for Dali.  Held on the top floor of the Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition features over 130 of his paintings, as well as many of his films. Having reached the sixth floor, the visitors sit down on comfortable cushion chairs in the middle of a brightly lit room where sunlight shines right through. This room is the preview, without a short biography of Salvador Dali pasted on the wall, the calm ambiance takes the guests off their guard. Before them lies a dimly lit exhibit accompanied by suspenseful, but low music playing in the background (from the various Dali films being shown simultaneously). Lost to the sounds and the darkness, one slowly walks around trying to absorb too much in too little time, and embraces the confusion. [Read more →]

What is one of the very first things that visitors see on the sixth floor when they go to see the “Dali: Painting and Film Exhibition” at the Museum of Modern Art? There is this enormous painting on the wall of a man. It is not any normal man, but one with a normal eye on one side of the face and multiple eyes enlarged through a magnifying glass on the other. Hence is the beginning of the world of illusions. Now one may think, “This is such an unusual painting; it is painted in a style that I would not normally encounter with works from other artists!” This is just an inkling of what visitors would encounter beyond the entrance to Dali’s art galleries. [Read more →]

During my visit to The Museum of Modern Art, I felt that I was a wealthy upper class citizen who paid a hefty sum to view the paintings, sculptures, and furniture inhabited there. However, I am not that wealthy; it was simply the surroundings and the quality of the work that caused me to think so. [Read more →]