Out and About

Here are some photos from Danica and Meghan's visit:

Waiting for the F - Meghan's first ride on the subway.

View from the F - right after Smith/9th St stop. You can see the Statue of Liberty in the distance.

We went to MoMA and saw pretty much everything on all 6 floors. The paintings were my favorite - Klimt's The Park tops the list (shown above).

American artist Martin Puryear was one of the Special Collections artists. He builds these amazing wood structures, including the ladder above. You can't really tell from the picture, but this thing was huge! I'd say 2 or 3 floors high.

Jackson Pollack's Shimmering Substance

This hanging art was part of the Architecture and Design floor.

The last floor was full of the very abstract and modern pieces. Most were puzzling and some made us laugh. Examples: A video of a man moving his body in robotic motions, at each pause saying the phrase, "I am making art". A video of a woman with a green milk jug with a hole in the side. She would unplug the hole and fill her mouth with milk, then spit the milk into the top of the jug. She repeated this process over and over.

I did however like the picture shown above. It made me think, "what a perfect city for this poster".

On Saturday, we went to Battery Park City/Ground Zero and Soho (a little H & M shopping fix). We made it back for the Seahawks blizzard...oh i mean...game (so sad). Sushi was on the agenda for dinner (there's a great place just around the corner called Kiku). Afterwards we walked down to this bar we had seen the night before- when we passed by,it looked like a small, cute place with floor to ceiling bookshelves. We didn't know what it was called, so we nicknamed it "The Library". When we went back on Saturday, it turns out it was Union Hall, a place I had read about in Time Out NY and wanted to check out someday. It isn't a small place at all - it's actually 5000 square feet - with 2 indoor bocce courts, fireplaces, old books, couches, light fixtures, concert venue, outdoor patio, etc. It's a pretty cool place and I have a feeling we'll go back. We'll get there earlier next time so we can reserve a spot on the bocce courts. :)