Day Four: NYC

Day Four: Friday, May 27th, 2011

All we did on Friday was look at Art. Art! Art! Art! and more Art! It was heaven! We started our day off at the Guggenheim. We were excited not only for the Art, but also to just see the building. It was incredible! Photography is only available in the lobby, which is a shame because they had some great pieces. I loved that everything was viewed by spiraling up or down through the building. No maze of rooms to figure out. And c'mon, Frank Lloyd Wright. I die!


Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum


Inside the museum

Our next stop was the Whitney Museum. They had one floor of their collection and three or four floors of different exhibitions. It was a free admission day, so we didn't have much to lose. Super glad it was free though. Not impressive and no photography, again. I will say that the building had killer details. The exterior and interior walls were concrete, pressed with wood so the wood grain was running all over the concrete walls. And on one of the stairwell landings someone constructed a tiny concrete village, with all kinds of crazy structures.


Whitney Museum of American Art

Then we were off to our final destination of the day, The Met. The glorious, glorious Met! We spent hours in there and weren't able to see anywhere near all of it. I can't imagine how long that would take. The museum stays opened later on Friday nights, so we were able to stay much longer. Yay! Photography was allowed, so I have somewhere between 400-500 shots of the artwork inside the museum. Obviously, I cannot post them all, so I will do my best to narrow it down.


The Metropolitan Museum of Art


King Henry VIII's armor


Georgia O'Keeffe - Black Iris


Chuck Close - Lucas

*The illusive Chuck Close. We searched ALL week for a Chuck Close painting and found two at the Met! Huzzah! I was over the moon. Can you tell?


Chuck Close - Mark


Andy Warhol - Nine Jackies


Pablo Picasso - The Blind Man's Meal


Joseph Mallord William Turner - Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute


Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Albert (Rene) Grenier (1858-1925)


Edgar Degas - The Dance Class


Auguste Renoir - Marguerite-Therese (Margot) Berard (1874-1956)


Claude Monet - The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil


Vincent van Gogh - Wheat Field with Cypresses


Vincent van Gogh - Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (verso: The Potato Peeler)


Georges Seurat - Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"


Gustav Klimt - Mada Primavesi (1903-2000)


Rembrandt - Self-portrait


Johannes Vermeer - detail of Young Woman with a Water Pitcher


Sandro Botticelli - The Last Communion of Saint Jerome


Temple of Dendur

We ended the day relaxing near the entrance of the museum listening to an orchestra play. Here's a video of that to end this post. (Sorry the audio is horrid.) Enjoy!