Peg and the kids took off this morning for a week visiting my in-laws down in Texas. As such, I've been left to my own devices here in the city. It being a glorious day, I decided to head on up to the Upper East Side to check out a couple of art exhibits that my super art-savvy pal C-Monster was kind enough to hip me to. My first stop was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to check out Roxy Paine's new installation, Maelstrom. I posted an entry about it here already, but you really have to go check it out with your own eyes. It's amazing. Even though the roof deck of the Met was flooded with corpulent tourists and other human cattle, the bizarre effect of Paine's frantic sculpture remains undiluted. Sort of a cross between wild, tangled tree branches and lightning, Maelstrom is both fascinating and a little intimidating. As C-mon said, it looks a bit like nature preparing to take revenge on humanity. Get uptown and check it out. (picture below).
My next stop was to the Park Avenue Armoury to see Ernesto Neto's massive installation, Anthropodino. Much like with Maelstrom, mere photographs do not do this art justice. You have to see this thing to believe it and experience it properly. A sprawling, cocoon-like structure made of pliable gauze and festooned with hanging bundles of aromatic spices, it looks like some sort of alien hive. I haven't the foggiest clue what it's all about, but it's a fun, eye-popping experience that I can't wait to bring my kids to. Go check it out!
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