Scribbles

The best excuse for getting off my butt to seeing all the exhibits in town is to have visitors. Luckily for me, I leveraged that into seeing three exhibits over the past week. The picture below of Dali was taken on a crazy Friday night at MoMA. Crazy because I scrooged it for the free museum night, every Friday from 4-8pm, something I highly do not recommend. It’s like being stuck in the tourist mob of Times Square but without the option of ignoring the kitsch; the art is so damn enthralling that you can’t just leave. But back to Dali, one of my favorite pieces was the 6-minute Disney collaboration Destino. He started it in 1945 but the project never finished due to some controversies at the time. Disney resurrected it and completed the animation in 2003.

Too much art for too few eyeballs

The other place we stumbled upon through sheer Serendipity was the Family Guy inspired exhibit at the Paley Center for Media Arts. Other than the exhibit, which has paintings, everything else is on screen. You literally go in and watch TV all day, how’s that for people who can’t stand museums? They have several large theaters with daily scheduled projects. The George Carlin tribute featured the best of his stand-up comedy skits really impressed. Didn’t think I could connect with 70′s type stand-up but I was thoroughly entertained. I also browsed through their massive media library and watched the pilot showing of the Brady Bunch. Good family fashioned fun.

Last but not least, was the Buckminster Fuller exhibit at the Whitney Museum. Funny how ignorant I was of this extraordinary scientist, artist, architect, futurist. The exhibit, aptly titled “Starting with the Universe,” reveals the life works of Buckminster Fuller, things that we see today but never properly mentally credit, such as tetrahedron inspired architecture and structures. The man had such radical yet practical views that he shared loudly with the world. His thinking was way ahead of his time and it’d be hard for me to name a contemporary figure; the big names of today tend to be of more commercial or political fame.  Of the three exhibits, all of which I thorougly enjoyed, I felt most inspired by Fuller.  The geeky nature of his work applied to improving the world is something I can look up to.