NYC last weekend, good times.

Last weekend I went to New York City for a few days, just to get a change of scenery. I've been In Boston for way too long and I was going insane. With my recent revelation of what I want to do with my career (Architectural Rendering). I wanted to see all of the beautiful  art museums throughout the city. They were a great combination of Art and Architecture (perfect combination actually!), and there was so much amazing art to see within them (Picasso, Dali, Monet, Pollock, Serra). I had been to MoMa once already, so I decided to visit the Guggenheim and the Met. When I arrived early Saturday morning, I immediately ventured over to the Met. As I was approaching the building I was consumed by bunches of street artists painting and selling their won, other others pieces. I met this great Italian-Argentinian oil painter, and he asked met to help him paint one of his pieces with him. I graciously accepted! It was so much fun, My girlfriend video taped the hilarious incident and proceeded to laugh the whole time. Being an artist, I was totally into it and concentrating so hard. It was awesome. We asked him for a business card  and he didn't have one so he invited us to his studio to hang out whenever we wanted. We didn't have time in our busy weekend, but we hope to contact him soon. 

We decided to skip the Met (for some dumb reason), and went directly to the Guggenheim to see the new Installation exhibit by Cai Guo-Qiang, an incredible artist from China, well known for his explosion pieces. The entire museum was converted into the exhibit and it was mezmerising. If anyone doesn't get a chance to go there before the exhibit is over, check out the website here. 

After that we just wlked around, went to a concert on Saturday evening, and walked around all day on Sunday. 

One thing that I noticed about New York, technologically, that made it more appealing to me than Boston, was the subway system. The rails and the organization of the trains is so much more clean and easy to understand that the Boston subway system (especially the Green Line, haha!). And while riding the subway, I thought about my trip to the Guggenhiem and the piece about the subway I encountered. There was a woman who had an idea to transform all of the ugly pieces of machinery within the subway, and the subway stations, into pieces of artwork, to make it more appealing to the people. I personally thought this was a brilliant idea because, who wouldn't want to look at a beautiful landscape or crazy piece of modern art painted over an ugly piece of piping, or a gigantic breaker box. This idea, I believe will help diffuse the unappealing aspect of technology and help bring emerging or currently artists into a place of recognition, and that what the world really needs instead of advertisements and television screens. 

Thanks!