First, I have a confession to make… after booking this trip to NYC I checked the MoMA’s website. I knew it stood for the Museum of Modern Art, but what I failed to realize was that I don’t really like modern art. To be accurate, it’s not that I don’t like it; rather I just love history so much more. I realized what I really wanted to see was the Metropolitan Museum of Art. So instead of going to the MoMA, as my list would make you believe, we headed to the Met instead. And again, it’s my blog, so I’ll do what I want!
The Met was amazing. My guess is that Kevin and I saw less than half of the exhibits, it is absolutely huge. But what we did see was fantastic, we spent the majority of our time in the 18-19th century paintings, where we saw Monet, Degas, Dali, Seurat, Matisse, Van Gogh and El Greco. One piece that caught my attention was Jules Bastien-Lepage’s Joan of Arc (1879). This picture doesn’t do it justice, it is awe-inspiring in person. In the image below you can barely make out the ghost like forms of the saints whose voices she heard; in the actual painting it is their halos that stand out, leading your eye to find their hidden images.
After our trip through the Met, we sat at the Rink Bar in Rockefeller Center (where the ice rink is in the winter) for a few drinks. Then we went back to the hotel, changed clothes and headed out for dinner and a show. The show was ‘Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson’ at the Public Theater, and it blew away all expectations. It was a historical, satirical comedy with an emo-punk score, and we were right in the front row for the whole thing. The star, Ben Walker, recently signed on for a lead role in the next X-Men movie (he’ll play Beast), so we’re hoping he makes it big and we’ll say we saw him when!
12 down; 18 to go
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