Sunday, April 13, 2008

A visit at the Modern

A few weeks ago, to kill time before dining at "The Modern" (a fine restaurant in the new building housing the Museum of Modern Art in New York) we walked around the galleries of the museum. Entrance to this museum is expensive ($20 or $25, I believe), but it is free on Friday evenings after 5. It somehow felt appropriate to get this esthetic experience for free before an expensive meal ...

The architecture inside the museum building sometimes looks like a post-modern painting:

There was an excellent exhibit of Lucien Freud's works. I captured two which I particularly liked:
A self-portrait:

and a print of a dog at rest.

Selected from a very rich collection of photographs, an amazing series of pictures of the Eiffel Tower under construction:




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