Museum of Modern Art

We had a super fun day at MoMA! Though we were pressed for time we ended up seeing the whole museum, and thoroughly enjoyed doing so.

The first thing that was great about MoMA was

the admissions fee. For students (provided they have a school ID handy) can purchase admission into the museum for just 12 dollars!

Right off the bat we discerned that MoMA is definitely a student friendly museum that students our age should make an effort to visit.

When we first walked in, we saw a woman sitting on a chair facing another chair. The woman, who was the "artist" had been in that chair since March 1st. (Seem unfeasible, right? But it's true!) In a nutshell, what this 'piece' was-was the artist sitting in one

chair completely motionless and silent facing whoever chose to sit in the chair facing her for as

long as he/she

pleases. It was really bizarre, and to us just seemed to be a very official and high paying

staring contest. We were not so sure how this classified as art, but to each his own!

After being in disbelief of the first exhibit, we moved onto a Picasso exhibit. The Picasso exhibit was everything you would expect from a

museum, a bunch of very intricate/confusing paintings. There was nothing special or unique

about it, except (to avoid sounding ignorant) that it was Picasso, one of the greatest artists of all time.

Another highlight of our trip to MoMA was the The Andy Warhol exhibit. His works were very modern and to say the least, breathtaking. He took object so simple and obscure, like Cambell's soup cans and made them into beautiful masterpieces. We especially enjoyed the Marilyn

Monroe portrait, it was very modern and Julia had just learned about it in her Art History class. This portrait is meant to portray the tragedy of fame, and Warhol's eery use of colors definitely sends that message across.

Our last highlight from our trip was the feature exhibit on the very top floor of MoMA. Already exhausted from the train ride and the city/museum walking, Julia and I debated whether or not to even voyage onto the last floor, but thank god we did! This exhibit was the works of Marina Abramovic. When we first walked through we was as sign stating that no photos were to be taken because many of the pieces were live NUDE performers. They weren't lying. As we walked through we saw completely naked people standing face to face separated by a foot at the most, people laying down naked with skeletons on top of them, and other performers fully dressed just staring into each other's eyes. It was truly bizarre. If that wasn't weird enough,

these live performers were accompanied by very disturbing photos and videos. The videos seemed senseless, they were just naked people walking into one another and people flashing other people. In the weirdest exhibit we have ever seen, we were in utter shock . The most disturbing video of all was one of a woman, again completely nude, shoving a skull repeatedly into her abdomen. Once again, we left wondering, this is art? WE CAN DO THIS TOO ! Does that make us talented artists?

Some of the art we saw was truly "modern"art... meaning it looked like a 5 year old did it.

Overall, we enjoyed the museum, but a lot of the pieces were hard to consider 'art'. We guess it depends on one's definition of art. For example, here was a solid plain white square and a long

red rectangle with a line going through it. We could paint that ourselves and sell it!

Since this is our first post, we want to make it clear that we are being 100% honest in our blog and telling it exactly how we see it at the museum. We don't mean to insult or sound ignorant about the museums we see. The purpose of this blog is to publish what we think are museums and pieces that students our age will actually appreciate. We are not trying to be professional art critics, and honestly, we are not qualified to do so. We're trying to convey our views to people our age, not rule whether or not an artist is talented or not.

So without further ado,

Overall rating of the MoMA out of 10 (10 being the highest): 6.5

Student Friendliness: 8.5

Do we recommend visiting?: 7

http://perezhilton.com/2010-05-11-james-franco-at-moma

AHH!! JAMES FRANCO (You probably know him from Pineapple Express) went to MoMA and participated in that stare contest exhibit we were talking about. SOOOOO COOL, but frustrating we didn't happen to visit on the same day!