Art lovers rejoice: Spectrum has a new feature just for you! Art critic Julien Hawthorne keeps the description short and sweet before putting his student life fees to good use at one of New York's most noteworthy museums.
This is how it's gonna work: I’m going to go through the CU Arts list of free museums and talk a little bit about each one.
This week is MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art, for traditionalists). Housed in tourist-infested Midtown East, which some may go so far as to call a "cultural wasteland," MoMA is an avant-garde oasis that guards the ghosts of the modern gods like Picasso and Pollock while also exhibiting contemporary mavericks (check out the New Photography series).
Though it takes tremendous willpower not to loiter in the permanent collection till the security guards give you the boot (again), I decided to tear myself away and take a close look at the Alina Szapocznikow exhibit on the third floor (probably because the Polish parade could be heard a block away).
Szapocznikow is a post-WWII Polish sculptor, whose work evokes a rough mix of surrealism, its brother Dadaism, and a pinch of pop art for an extra… pop---kinda hard to avoid during the early sixties. Like her New York School poetry contemporaries, she de-contexualizes the familiar, especially the female body, such that the disparate elements in her work take on an entirely different meaning within her sculpture.
