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Below is a vast Willem de Kooning painting hanging on MOMA's walls, among his other paintings. Note the number of visitors and other enthusiasts that crowd during "Target Free Friday Night" at this museum. Certainly, you'll save your cash and get to encounter modern art pieces upclose, thanks to "Target," by just lining up before 4pm with many others. I've done this many times. On each visit, I'll just focus my attention on a certain exhibit, and will always try to revisit the other permanent exhibits without spending much time on them.
Below are pictures of Pipilotti Rist's recent exhibit at the MOMA; I didn't know her before I came to the museum. But the exhibit offered me a great opportunity to encounter the works of another artist whose works would have been kept away from me, if I chose to stay someplace on Friday nights.
Recently got myself an opportunity to visit the MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) one Friday. A friend refused to join, as he knew the Museum would be "targeted" by visitors who would like to avail of the "Target Free Friday Night," as sponsored by Target, to the MOMA. Seeing this as a bargain, people, including myself, would definitely find time to come and enjoy what MOMA offers. But in this visit, I didn't really have to line up outside that very chilly evening (the line outside usually starts to get longer, even before 4pm every Friday) with the big number of visitors showing up Fridays; I arrived past 6pm.
This time, I didn't get to see Vincent van Gogh's "Starry Night," the iconic oil-on-canvas painting drawn in 1889, measuring 29 x 36 1/4" (73.7 x 92.1 cm). It's part of an ongoing exhibit, that "require(s) a separate, timed-entry ticket (at no additional charge)....available at the exhibition entrance on the second floor." It's always a source of fascination and intrigue knowing that van Gogh eventually went on to become insane and had kept on trying to kill himself until he "succeeded" in 1890.
That Friday, I had the opportunity to tour again most floor exhibits (where I again viewed some of Warhol's pop-art pieces, Picasso's and Jackson Pollock's wonderful paintings!), with a big number of visitors from all over the world, reflecting diverse nationalities, and with this trip being my 15th time around. The first one was during the time in 2003 when the MOMA had to move temporarily somewhere in Queens in a schoolbuilding they used to call "P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center" (if I'm not mistaken, which houses art objects that may appeal to those wishing to see recent works, and may be somewhat similar to exhibits found in art galleries in the LES, including "Cuchifritos" where I've done volunteer gallery intern work). But there's always something to discover with the MOMA. Even the very building itself is a great modern work of art, which was redesigned by Yoshio Taniguchi. In this visit, I enjoyed most thoroughly the playful and splendidly colorful effects of a digital photo exhibit (I didn't note down the artist's name, though---- SHE'S PIPILOTTI RIST, and watch her in this YouTube video) with distorted figures and shadow-like pictures splashed across and moving all over the big open atrium (or perhaps another exhibit area that looked like a huge, modern boutique hotel) where people congregate to get perplexed by the experience.
I took some pictures as what can be seen anywhere here in this posting.
And I was delighted to have capped the evening's MOMA visit by having a cheap but tasty meal I bought from a Middle Eastern gyro food cart after lining up through a long line of hungry fellows like myself located at W53rd St & 6th Avenue (which I wrote about in a separate brief review in my Yelp account).
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