Today we were headed for MoMA in 55th street, not far from where we live. MoMA is the abbreviation of Museum of Modern Art, which I, being a down to earth girl, is not relatively thrilled about. I do appreciate the skill in art, but I do not understand why it is necessary to have an entire 10 by 10 canvas white and then leaving one line in the entire "piece" grey. It speaks to me in absolutely no way, but if you see the works of Dali or an artist I enjoy very much, Leonid Afremov - you see talent, ability, skill, which to me is art world currency. I am a fan of going to a museum, but I will not stand with my jaw at my feet for something so meaningless.
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| The work of an artist named Franz Kline |
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| The work of the artist Salvador Dali |
We were set free after MoMA, we just had to be back at 35th street in 1,5 hour, which is quite the feat of
strength to be honest, but it was done, with a sandwich in one hand and a collar around the neck of the eager shoppers. Here we were to hear a lecture by the historian Laird W. Bergad, that was extremely interesting, he was one those professors you hope to get at the university, the inspirational ones. He had a PowerPoint presentation prepared only with statistics, and one might have thought this was gonna be a snooze-fest, but it was magnificent to see a man elaborate so much interesting and so much feeling from cold, boring numbers. The class went by like that!
We walked a bit up and down the streets after that, which we always do of course, and then we all met up at Ruby Tuesdays where we had our goodbye meal together before the French part of the class left for Quebec, Canada. After which we said one last goodbye to Times Square and headed home, and well it is 2 am in NY and we're no where near ready to go to bed..
Hope to see you tomorrow, beat, in Quebec
Till next time,
The Viking
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