The Zereps

Greetings. Time for another weekend update to The Zereps (since we never find the time, nor the words to describe what we do during the work-week; and you’d probably not want to hear them anyway, even if we did.) 😉

Well, my one adventure that I have to write about this week is only to describe the trip that I took to the Guggenheim Museum, located in Manhattan’s upper-east side. Since we’re moving in a couple months, I figured I’d better get in some tourist spots before we move ’cause who knows when the next time we’ll be on the east coast, or even just New York City again. The Guggenheim was my tourist destination this weekend, hopefully I’ll be able to fit in something during the next couple weekends. (Where was Candice during my romp through the museum? She was at work, and doesn’t really like touristy stuff too much.)

Even though I’ve visited several times before and have lived in New York City for over a year, I had never managed to make it to the Guggenheim. The museum was designed by famed Architect Frank Lloyd Write and pened to the public in 1959. Once again, I forgot my camera, but didn’t scold myself too badly once I learned the photography was only allowed on the ground level, which basically includes the ticket line, a cafe, and the gift shop. The one shot that everbody gets from the ground level is one of the ceiling though; here are a couple lovingly stolen from other places on the net (with credit):

(buildingsrus.co.uk)

In the first one you can see the spiral design of the building. The whole inside of the cylindrical building is empty space, while the outer sides spiral seamlessly up all the way to the top from the ground. The main exhibit when I went was a showcase of the works of Zaha Hadid. I’d never heard of her before I saw the exhibits, but after walking through all her drawings, models, and seeing photographs of her finished buildings, I was amazed at the scope of her talents. She is the only woman to win the Pritzker Prize. One of her most buildings is the BMW Central Building, which I think is amazing. Here are some links to some other buildings she’s designed: 1 2 3.See, reading The Zereps can be fun AND informational. 😉

I spend pretty much the entire afternoon on Sunday at the museum; besides the main exhibit, featuring Zaha Hadid’s work, there was also the museum’s pernament collection of classical works and a pretty large exhibit of Jackson Pollock’s works on paper (versus canvas.) I’m glad I got to visit the Guggenheim, and now I can check that off my list of things to do in New York before I leave.

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