The Arts in New York City

Having gone to the Met and MoMA for modern art, I decided to go to the Guggenheim Museum. The Guggenheim Museum was special, not only because it contained modern art, but also because the building itself is a form of modern art. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, it was meant to be organic art, or one with nature. Although the exterior was under renovation, the spiral design is well known throughout the world. On the inside, the spiral-like design is present again with a dome over the top. A striking issue I noticed was that there were no support beams holding the building up. Inside the museum, artworks from famous artists like Van Gogh and Picasso were present. The most interesting would be the “Word Arts” spread around the spiral hallways. It usually contained a short joke phrase such as, “My father was a drunk. The last I heard from him, he went to Canada to drink it dry.” The Guggenheim was definitely worth going because it combined some abstract art with modern art that was understandable.

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