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Favorite High Line Photo

October 4, 2015 / markrayev / 0 Comments

My favorite photo that I took on the High Line was that of the My Mom Drinks Pepsi sculpture. I like this photo so much because it resembles a geometric pattern. Math has always been one of my favorite subjects. So, when I saw this sculpture all I could think of was the unique squares and rectangles and shapes within shapes that were formed when coke cans are put together alongside one another. I also enjoyed the simplicity of the sculpture: a series of coke cans placed to form a specific shape. The sculpture reminded me of another sculpture made of soup cans that I saw on my trip to Montreal in the Museum of Contemporary Art.

My Favorite High Line Photo

October 1, 2015 / Taylor Castro / 0 Comments

My favorite photo from the High Line was one that was not of a piece of art. It was this one, overlooking the Hudson River towards Hoboken. I’m a sucker for sunset pictures, and I think city views are beautiful; I am definitely a city girl. Something about this photo that is special to me is that I recognize one of the buildings across the water in Hoboken as the Howe Building at Stevens Institute of Technology, where some of my best friends go to college. I sent them this photo as my view from the other side of the river, and it almost felt like I was watching over them.

Sunset Over the Hudson

Time On The High Line

October 1, 2015 / Angelica Goldberg / 0 Comments

I had never been on the High Line before and didn’t know exactly what it was. To my surprise, it was a “park” that was built on a subway rail. That seemed like a cool concept but when I got there, I didn’t consider it a park. It had no space to run around and was crowded. But, it had a nice view and some interesting art.

The High Line- Little Manhattan

October 1, 2015 / Shokhina Badrieva / 0 Comments

My favorite piece on the High Line was a sculpture called Little Manhattan. Before I knew it was a sculpture of Manhattan, I knew right away it was some major city and the detail in the sculpture was what really caught my attention. You could see every building and bridge distinctly. The sculpture was about nine feet, but the details were tiny (the picture really doesn’t do it justice). When I was looking at it I kind of felt like I was a giant looking down on an entire city. When I got home, I wanted to know more about this sculpture so I googled it and this came up:

“A fantastic feat of meticulous carving, the sculpture includes every bridge, pier, and building found in Manhattan at the time of the sculpture’s making.”

I think I like the sculpture more now that I know that every single building, bridge, and pier is included. The time and attention to detail that it must have taken in order to make this sculpture makes it even more interesting.

Photo From High Line

October 1, 2015 / Vaughn Titus / 0 Comments

I have always stayed intrigued by graffiti and have always been a fan of it. The way that artists can use buildings or larger, public items as a canvas for their expression is really hip. I didn’t find Ortega’s “Physical Graffiti 1-3” to be ‘aesthetically pleasing’ but I did find it interesting. Especially in the picture above, I found it cool how behind the artwork, there was a building. I could almost envision what the art would look like on the building. However, I just couldn’t. The Graffiti was missing the colors, which is one of the most important aspect of graffiti. The artist’s twists, connotations, and vibes that the work creates is brought by more than just the words. However, Ortega plasters the words in your face so that that is all you can take in. I didn’t necessarily enjoy his pieces but I did find them intriguing. They helped me gain respect for graffiti on buildings and walls. It was almost as if he took the rudimentary aspects of graffiti and took them out and called it his artwork. There was probably a strong meaning to this, however, I just take it as a way of gaining respect and really stepping back to enjoy the artwork that graffiti is.

High Line Art

September 30, 2015 / Sandy Mui / 0 Comments

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When I saw the mini image of the graffiti art on the paper that Prof. Ugoretz handed out, it was hard to see that it was actually physical graffiti rather than graffiti on a wall. I chose this picture because the graffiti art was my favorite and it’s still a little hard to tell that this isn’t actually on the wall, besides the art being in front of the black sign on the upper left.

A Photo from the High Line

September 30, 2015 / Maisha Kamal / 0 Comments

Although this work of art wasn’t on our list, I chose to upload this photo because I think it’s pretty awesome. The art has a powerful message from an influential person, and I love how it sort of blends in with the grays of the background while managing to stand out. It adds life to a rather dull building, don’t you think?

🌛 at the Museum!

September 26, 2015 / Boris Avrumov / 0 Comments

Here’s a fun overdue post, about my night at the Brooklyn Museum! 🐉 Continue reading

Image of Nature

September 25, 2015 / dregsandgrounds / 0 Comments

My Experience at the Brooklyn Museum

September 22, 2015 / Shokhina Badrieva / 0 Comments

From the first time I learned that we were having an event at the Brooklyn Museum, I was excited. I had only been to the Brooklyn Museum once before this event, but it was one of my favorite museums to visit because of the diverse art I found there. The Brooklyn Museum had exhibits from the ancient Egyptian time all the way to 21st century contemporary art, and the second time I went to the museum made me fall in love with it even more.

My friend and I got to the museum about an hour early, so we had plenty of time to roam around the first floor. The exhibit was called “Connecting Cultures”. The pieces on the first floor were extremely interesting. My friend knew a lot about the Hindu art and explained to me what the different sculptures meant. My favorite piece on the first floor was the mirror that had two people facing towards you as you were looking at the mirror. It was like you were inside the mirror and the people were looking at you from the surface of the mirror.

When everyone made their groups and began to look at the various exhibits, my group decided to start with the Egyptian art on the third floor. I personally wasn’t extremely excited about the Egyptian art because I’ve seen similar pieces in other museums like the MET. After the Egyptian art, we stayed on the third floor and checked out the European paintings. I really liked this exhibit. I like to paint and the painting in this exhibit inspired me. A lot of them were larger than life and felt important. My favorite paintings in this exhibit were the Soviet Union paintings because I used to live in Uzbekistan during the time of the Soviet Union and it was interesting to see the point of view in these paintings.

I liked the sculptures and paintings on the first few floors, but the exhibit I was most excited for was the video game room. When we got to the room we all immediately started to take snapchats and selfies because it was so interactive and different than all the other exhibits. We also made sure to play all the games and played a few rounds of foosball (I won). The last thing we checked out was the sneaker gallery.My brother would’ve loved this exhibit because he’s a huge sneaker head. I didn’t think I’d be too excited for this gallery, but surprisingly it was pretty cool.

My favorite part of the museum was probably the arcade room. The atmosphere inside the room felt like a was part of an actual video game and the old-school games were silly, but definitely fun. Like I said before, the diversity in the art at the Brooklyn Museum was incredible. They displayed ancient Egyptian jewelry in the same building as the newest sneakers that are out, which is what I think makes the museum special.

Anyway, here are a few extremely low quality pictures I took at the museum. Enjoy!