Monday, March 10, 2008

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

Located on Long Island, NY, this affiliate of The Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA) is "solely devoted to contemporary art". It looked like an interesting place to visit, judging from the photos seen on its website. It's a short train ride away from Grand Central Station, the regular subway station we use as our hotel is on the East side this time. The entrance and outdoor space leading to the museum building entrance is pretty awesome. It's a photographer's playground, where shadows of clean geometric lines are cast on its pebbled floor, and empty spaces stand , like a box for visitors to fill. We were rather excited by the architecture and design of the place, raw concrete walls, very zen like. The exhibition inside was another story. "WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution" is a little to weird for me and some were on the verge of pornography. Since we had the little one in tow, MJ had to "vet" the exhibition rooms before Meg and I went in. On the second floor, as we were walking down the hallway, popping into the rooms along it, one kind lady guard warned, "these have S*"! So we steered away.
I get excited when I photograph places and subjects like these.
The view of the main building as you enter the museum grounds.
This place was a public school from 1893 to 1963 and has 100 rooms now turned into exhibition spaces!
Pebble picking Meg fished out a respectable collection of different stones which she was so excited about.

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