Saturday 16 July 2011

Art Critic Review - The Guggenheim

Ok, so late afternoon we make it to The Guggenheim! this is one of NYC's iconic attractions! The building is spectacular and was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, as written about by Simon and Garfunkel! The building is like a beehive and sits in stark contrast to the buildings around it! As it rises up higher into the sky the building gets bigger and so the perspective is almost the wrong way round from your expectations!
Anyway, in we went! Lauren was keen to see the building where Kelsey was not interested whatsoever!

We got tickets, but Kelsey decided to remain at the bottom and wait for us to return! You can photograph as much as you like outside and inside on the ground floor! But no cameras were permitted  in the exhibition! I wonder why that is? To maintain the allure of the exhibits? To ensure people come long to see the range of exhibits on display without looking on line to see them? No, there is NO photography allowed as the exhibits are CRAP! The main exhibitor at the moment, I forget his name somehow, was a specialist in 'taking the piss!' (Apologies!!) Even I, a humble bear, could have produced better art works! And the humans definitely could have! The specialisms ranged from 'art in the nursery school' (large piles of cotton wool with sticks lid into it) or boulders on cushions, boulders on the floor, paintings with just rough lines or even some old strips of metal just laid on the floor! I bet if the cleaner nudged them or moved them NO ONE would be any the wiser AT ALL, these artists are just making a mockery of us all! No, I do not want to look for the hidden meanings in the symbolism! It was a boulder on a cushion on the floor, r on a pain of glass or randomly painted lines on a canvas! And the potato prints (well, they looked like that) were just a joke!

Anyway, the building is a must to see! The design concept is stunning and the whitewashed Walls, spiralling up to the spectacular roof is worth the entrance fee alone! If you go - just don't bother with the art work! And don't try to touch it or get near it as the 'guards' are very jumpy and quick to react to any poor soul who might inadvertently almost fall asleep while looking at them and get too close for comfort!
My new ambition - get an exhibition of my doodles in the Guggenheim before I die! Perhaps they should rename it the. 'Giggleheim!'

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