05/16/17 - Day 43 - Manhattan - Round 2 for the Metropolitan Museum & Trivia
Got a replacement for my stolen bike and decided to ride it into the city to visit the museum again and meet up with friends for trivia.
Riding in the city is an exciting and harrowing way to get around town. Bikes aren't allowed on the sidewalks so you must use the streets. There are very few bike lanes once you're off the bridges so you're sharing the road with all the midtown traffic. It was actually a lot faster to travel on the bike than in a car, though you've got to keep your head on a swivel. I enjoyed it but I'm certain I'd eventually get in an accident if I had to do it everyday.
The museum was right where I left it last week. I started with Greek and Roman art this time.
A bust of Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor
Roman Jewelry display, I enjoyed the resemblance of the earrings and necklace in the center :)
Dionysus
Next door was the Oceania exhibit and beyond that the African exhibit. Most of the pieces are fairly recent (18th and 19th century) because almost all of them are made of perishable material (e.g. wood)
Apparently these guys had a fixation on crocodiles
Carved totems from Oceania on the left, carved ivory from Africa on the right
Illuminated Gospel produced in Ethopia around the 14th or 15th century. Really old books interest me, even if they're almost exclusively religious materials.
I also like the intricate jewelry boxes and furniture pieces
From the Central and South American treasury exhibit
They also have recreations of 18th and 19th century bedrooms and hotel parlors. Below is a bedroom from the Palazzo Sagredo in Venice circa 1718. Check out the ceiling detail in the second photo.
Room from Hotel de Varengeville, Paris circa 1740
Reception Room from the Hotel de Tesse, Paris
I also made myself walk through the modern art gallery. As I expected, not a fan. A few of the turn of the century paintings were nice, but 90% of them reminded me of finger paintings. And then there's this:
You've got to be effing kidding me.
I finally finished with the first floor, but still have to check out the second floor: Asia art and Euro painting.
Afterwards I met with some friends at East Village Social to play trivia for the first time in a month and a half. The game was a little different but no worries, we won anyways!
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Riding in the city is an exciting and harrowing way to get around town. Bikes aren't allowed on the sidewalks so you must use the streets. There are very few bike lanes once you're off the bridges so you're sharing the road with all the midtown traffic. It was actually a lot faster to travel on the bike than in a car, though you've got to keep your head on a swivel. I enjoyed it but I'm certain I'd eventually get in an accident if I had to do it everyday.
The museum was right where I left it last week. I started with Greek and Roman art this time.
A bust of Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor
Roman Jewelry display, I enjoyed the resemblance of the earrings and necklace in the center :)
Dionysus
Next door was the Oceania exhibit and beyond that the African exhibit. Most of the pieces are fairly recent (18th and 19th century) because almost all of them are made of perishable material (e.g. wood)
Apparently these guys had a fixation on crocodiles
Carved totems from Oceania on the left, carved ivory from Africa on the right
Illuminated Gospel produced in Ethopia around the 14th or 15th century. Really old books interest me, even if they're almost exclusively religious materials.
I also like the intricate jewelry boxes and furniture pieces
From the Central and South American treasury exhibit
They also have recreations of 18th and 19th century bedrooms and hotel parlors. Below is a bedroom from the Palazzo Sagredo in Venice circa 1718. Check out the ceiling detail in the second photo.
Room from Hotel de Varengeville, Paris circa 1740
Reception Room from the Hotel de Tesse, Paris
I also made myself walk through the modern art gallery. As I expected, not a fan. A few of the turn of the century paintings were nice, but 90% of them reminded me of finger paintings. And then there's this:
You've got to be effing kidding me.
I finally finished with the first floor, but still have to check out the second floor: Asia art and Euro painting.
Afterwards I met with some friends at East Village Social to play trivia for the first time in a month and a half. The game was a little different but no worries, we won anyways!
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Yay, a new bike!
ReplyDeleteAlso, modern art is so sad. Hangers, really?