When I was cleaning my office area, I found the Metropolitan Museum of Art shopping bag. Yes, I keep stuff like this… because it caught my eye and I thought it was cool typographic design. The bag is gold and white lettering around — very chic :)
This reminds me to visit there again… maybe soon… very soon…
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One more post from my MoMA visit… Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective. Just to be in the entrance area of this exhibition made me so excited – walls of great posters he designed for his exhibitions! Each one is so different and unique, my eye was so busy just to take in. I couldn’t take any photos inside the exhibitions, but you will find so many of his works including paintings, sculptures, installations, drawings, prints… lots of stuff. Lots of energy. It was cool.
I especially liked this hand-lettering poster for SF MoMA exhibition. Back in 1991.
It is going on until May 11th, if you are around in NYC, you should go check it out!
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I went to MoMA last week and saw a few exhibitions including this Tangled Alphabets by León Ferrari and Mira Schendel – the title itself was so intriguing to begin with and so I was really looking forward to this exhibition – it was really interesting and cool, it was an art created by letters and hand-writing alphabets! It wasn’t design exhibition, it was a true art.
The exhibition starting area. I like the different fonts and words all played around with each other.
The wall explaining who they are:
another shot of the title of the exhibition – it really shows how this exhibition is about.
Some images from the exhibition that I liked:
*All the images from here down are from Tangled Alphabets website.
If you are in NY area, I would recommend checking it out, it’s going on until June 15th this year!
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We went to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston last Saturday for the opening of the SMFA Traveling Scholars – this very noble scholarship award that our friend Niq received from School of the Museum of Fine Arts – and of course to see him and his film for this exhibition!
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – entrance is on the other side, but back side is already great.
The entrance:
Big head statue – there was another one on the other side and that one had opened eyes.
Our friend Niq’s work description:
“Film comes alive when projected but exists as material in its dormant state. In ‘Sunburns’ I am exploring the intersection of materiality and visuality. Solar energy has been focused through a magnifying glass and its imprint burned into the film. Projection transforms the process; the light of the projector takes the place of the sun and the eye becomes the receiving surface.” – Nicolas Brynolfson
How interesting. The film was really interesting and beautiful to me, every burned frame was different and created an amazing art. It was like watching a slide show of painting, but it also had a rhythm.
His projector:
OK, there was no way to capture his awesome film nicely on my camera in the dark, but here are some that I tried… these are the creation of Niq and the sun.
There are 6 more artists’ work in this exhibition, they are all different type of art, if you are in Boston area, this is going on until May 3rd so you should go check it out.
Congratulations again, Niq, for this great film, great exhibition!!
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Randy and I took Monday afternoon off and went to American Museum of Natural History. There were lots of cool inspirations there, I wished we had more time…
Entrance:
Theodore Roosevelt statue:
I took some photos for my inspirations and here they are. I hope they’ll give you some ideas for your project, too…
They had lots of wild animals diorama and they were all amazing to look at. It was really lively (even though nothing was alive!) and it looked like a real wild life everyday scene. I especially liked colors and patterns on the animals.
Love the colors. Dark line gives nice impact.
The pattern is so unique and caught my eye.
Love the stripes in just one area like this.
Simply beautiful.
Great shapes.
Love the composition. Dynamic.
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From here, it’s a dinosaur area!
Half 3D graph. Very cool.
Found letter H in dinosaur’s bone.
Found letter S in dinosaur’s bone.
Glass case with nice typography/description – it was so cool to look at.
wooooo. Isn’t it awesome?
Another cool glass case with typography. Love that you can see through everything with the types in front.
Amazing – what a horn!
Mammoth shot.
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I can’t believe it’s September already! It’s still hot in here, but I know fall is coming right soon… I don’t want summer to be over yet, though, I’m excited about fall, too, must be pretty.
Anyway, on Saturday, I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to catch the Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy exhibition before it ended (yesterday) and I am so glad I got to see it! It was so awesome!
The Met:
The entrance:
Went straight to the Superheros exhibition – no picture was allowed so this is from the website. The exhibition was grouped by the different body type/superhero and there were real costumes that were worn in the movies as well. It was amazing to see how each designer (Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Bernhard Willhelm, Dolce & Gabbana… to name a few) was inspired by the superheroes and put their own vision into it and create something new. oh and all the mannequins were wearing amazing shoes!
Got to also see Jeff Koons work on the roof:
The roof has the view of Manhattan and Martini bar! (Friday and Saturday) You can also have Café drinks and food including beer and wine everyday.
Also saw J. M. W. Turner exhibition. Great artisit. Loved his usage of colors, dipiction of the sky, sun, and the lights on all of his paintings.
It is a huge museum and there a lot more to see, but that was all we could do. The museum store is great, too!
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I’ve been wanted to check out the new museum called New Museum and so last Thursday after my work, I stopped by there because it opens until 10pm and it is free after 7pm every Thursdays.
The building is pretty awesome, lots of neat details outside and inside, it is different and unique for sure.
From Bowery Street:
Hell, Yes!
and there are a few exhibitions going on at the moment, but 2,3,4 floors are filled with the exhibition called “After Nature” – very conceptual, deep and dark, actually, it is the imaginative world of after all the human beings being eclipsed…
I saw a “live” sculpture for the first time there! A live person, being an art piece, he was moving around (on the floor) though, that was something.
They have their “new” original something throughout the museum, it is so fun to see them:
New anti stress food (chocolate):
New kiss food (mint):
and I even liked the tiles in the women’s restroom:
The book store they have is so great, too!!
If you have a Bank of America card, you can go to selected Museums for free every first weekend of every month! The first weekend of August is coming up this weekend (god, time just flies so fast) so just thought I should mention it here. Unfortunately, I can’t take the advantage of it this weekend since we’ll be traveling to Boston and we’ll be down by the Cape Cod, laying around the beach… (smile)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC is one of them — I have to make it there very soon…
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We meant to go to the Block Party that New Museum was having, but we couldn’t find it… well, if that little crowd with lots of kids at the Park, it didn’t look like it was for us and oh my god, it was 100 degrees out so we just walked around and took off.
I have to come back to visit the museum, though.
The building was designed by Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa:
You can see a super fast forward video of how the building was built from their website (pretty cool):
There are lots of stencil paints on the street around the Museum:
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Last Sunday the 13th was the last day of the ©MURAKAMI exhibition at Brooklyn Museum and we finally made it there! We were there for the opening night, couldn’t get in, we came by one day, it was closing already, so this was our 3rd try.
and of course, everyone waited until the last day, there was a long line:
(I saw Jillian from Project Runway season 4 leaving the museum!)
In the lobby (click to see a larger view)
DOB balloon also in the lobby:
It was very interesting to learn about the artist and the concept behind his work.
The exhibition was huge, 2 floors, filled with his paintings, sculptures, merchandise, walls of his work, rooms of his work…. it was amazing!
There was a special Lui Vuitton store in the middle of the exhibition!
I loved the army pattern – they had a bag made out of this! I couldn’t even ask how much it’d cost, though.
…and security started stopping people photographing so this is it, but wow, it was a great exhibition, I enjoyed it so much.
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