perpetual memory loss

It only took me a year and a half but I finally made it to MoMA.  I got there an hour and a half before closing time so it was a condensed visit, but it was worth the $12 entry fee.  We were told to hit up Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave special exhibit so we went to the 6th floor to check her out first–especially since we were told she was controversial.  I have to say I really enjoyed her exhibit.  To sum it up her work is dark and sexual.  She likes painting bushy vagina’s, women spreading their ass cheeks, fucked up looking babies, death, and head shots.  Some of my faves were a sequence of paintings she did with people being hung, a portrait she did of a snake, and a dead lady.  Her exhibit ends on February 16 so if you are going to be in NY between now and then you should check it out.

Here is a video of her exhibit.  If you don’t want to watch the whole thing here are some good spots to check out: crazy babies 1:40 and 5:10, weird pregnant lady 2:15, snake portrait 6:00, and pron shot 6:40.  Unfortunately, they didn’t show the paintings of the hanging which for some odd reason were my favorites.

Some of the other highlights of the museum were Picasso, Cezanne, Warhol, Kahlo, and Matisse.  Unfortunately for me my favorite painting Van Gogh’s The Starry Night wasn’t there because it was being loaned out to some pansy-ass French museum.  For a more complete list of paintings check out MoMA’s online galleries.  One of the cooler exhibits was Tehching Hsieh’s.  He does year long performances that must be incredibly taxing on his psyche.  In one he locks himself in a cell for a year in solitary confinement, without talking, reading, writing, listening to the radio, or watching TV.  I don’t know how someone could do something like this without going insane, and who knows maybe he did.  Anyways check out MoMA’s site and some of these artist, and if you’re ever in NY check out the museum it is well worth your time to see some of these works of art in person.

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon--Pablo Picasso

Eurasia Siberian Symphony--Joseph Beuys

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