a full scale helicopter. it's the moma, why not?
visiting the moma was a profound experience for me. i started my visit to the museum by going through the exhibition marina abramović: the artist is present. this show runs until may 31st and is a retrospective of her work. marina herself is present in the museum every day through to may 31st. when i entered this exhibit to my right was a video installation of a new work of marina's, dated 2009 . in this work marina stands as still as she can holding a full pot of milk, all the while trying her best not to spill. marina wears black, like a nun's outfit, and when milk does the contrast is consequently dramatic. to the left of that of this work was a video showing one of her older and well known performance pieces: where using a razor blade she cuts the pattern of the star of david on her stomach. i am very sensitive to the sight of blood, and this piece put me into another zone right away. however, i continued to go through marina's entire exhibition. one work that has received a lot of attention is one where a real life man and woman stand facing each other in a doorway. viewers can go through this doorway by walking through a narrow space (about 12") between the man and woman. the space is so tight that you inadvertently end up rubbing yourself against their bodies. apparently more people choose to face the woman then the man. realizing i could go around the exhibit and avoid this passageway, i neglected to go through the naked man/woman exhibit. i was, after all, still affected by the blood video!
on the third floor of the moma a large section is devoted to architecture and design. i loved seeing the good design exhibit: it was something i had studied during my architecture undergrad. another show on the third floor focused on proposals for a waterway near chelsea. the presentations were immaculate, and showed a variety of solutions and building types.
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