Nearly every time I’m in NYC, I go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art – and every time I go there, I see new, captivating, and thought-provoking artwork. Today’s adventure to the Met met (haha!) my expectations. 🙂 Lissie and I started our Met excursion on the Roof Garden where I savored the cityscape and viewed the whimsical blue Big Bird of Alex Da Corte’s As Long as the Sun Lasts exhibit.
We spent the most time pondering The New Woman Behind the Camera. “Featuring more than 120 photographers from over 20 countries, this groundbreaking exhibition explores the work of the diverse ‘new’ women who embraced photography as a mode of professional and artistic expression from the 1920s through the 1950s.” One photograph, which I didn’t capture with my camera, looked into the eyes of an African-American woman whose husband had just been lynched. Her look is now seared into my memory.
We wandered around the museum, finding a waterfall (duh!), a fountain, sculptures, paintings, etc. The Robert Lehman Collection motivated me to walk to Lehman’s former home on 54th Street, now a condominium.
The Met: wonderful. Lunch: yummy. Time with Lissie: MARVELOUS!
Coffee and Central Park fountain on my way to the Met.
With Lissie.
“Developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, As Long as the Sun Lasts calls for a moment to pause, to reflect, to be ‘blue,’ but ultimately it is a statement of belief in the potential of transformation.” “Growing up in Venezuela, the artist watched the Brazilian version of Sesame Street in which Big Bird’s counterpart, Garibaldi, was blue.”
Only a small piece of an engaging mural.
Waterfall!
Another waterfall! The photo of the waterfall on the left is “tattooed” onto the character on the right.
The Crossroads: Mayan (left) and Constantine (right) sculptures showcase piety and power.
Robert Lehman’s former townhouse.
