MOMA

On Saturday, March 20th, to be exact, I went to The Museum of Modern Art! There I was initially acquainted by massive crowds of people that were anxiously waiting to purchase tickets to the museum. Before this very moment, I had never been to this museum before and never knew the popularity it had over the weekends. Interestingly, I am a native of NYC and never going to the sites that tourists often run to allowed me to think that the place consisted of tourists. But, as I look around, I see families, students, friends, people in relationships, and of course tourists all in line with excited looks on their faces. As soon as you turn the corner of the lobby to enter into the exhibit, you are startled with a gigantic ballon structure made byTim Burton. Tim Burton had a special exhibit that you had to pay extra to enter, but, surprisingly, it was sold out for the entire weekend!
Although, I could not see Tim Burton's special exhibit there was something else that MOMA offered its visitors. Artist, Marina Abramovic, was present at the museum! Coming up the stairs, I noticed a live perfermance art work being watched by a large crowd of people who many had puzzling faces about what exactly was being done. Shown in a video clip below is Marina Abramovic in her own performance art work. It seems to me, that it is something like the "sit and stare at each other without saying a word" game!!!??? However, I only was able to get a quick image since no cameras were allowed in this particular exhibit...so this is an Exclusive!!!

Please Excuse the mispronunciation of Marina's last name but do enjoy!!! Remember Exclusive!

Ironically, as I came in this young man who is sitting with Marina lasted 2 hours, the highest record all week!

Other interesting exhibits of Marina's were on the 6th floor of the museum. As a performance artist, Marina Abramovic, had created arts of works that was not like the pieces I had in mind before coming to the museum. However, this artwork amazed all of my senses. Video recordings of young women jumping around screaming, couples, yelling back and forth to each other, just the things people would consider weird was displayed as something magnificent. As I entered into the exhibit, security warned every guest that there should not be any cameras or videotaping done while in the exhibit. However, since I never heard the security guard as I was coming in I did not know this rule until after the fact and thus had an opportunity to film. So, once again, I BRING YOU AN EXCLUSIVE VIDEO OF MARINA'S EXHIBIT.






Three Videos of women, jumping, screaming, and staring are all displayed. However, at the very end there is another interesting exhibit that I got to play a part in. This part of the exhibit had live performers that posed on two sides of a threshold. The performers were naked and guests were encouraged to pass between the naked woman and man in such a close proximity. I did it of course!!!

On my visit to the Musuem of Modern Art, I felt a rush of excitement as if I was in an amusement park. There was so many emotions that I felt when viewing different art work that I never really thought could happen on a visit to one place! Other well known artists were also displayed but none of them brought emotion out of me like Marina's exhibit...So thank you, Marina! and Professor Blum for allowing such a cool assignment!