Staten Island Ferry: See the Coast Guard boat accompanying our ferry? There is a guy with
a loaded machine gun mounted on the front. Yikes.
Today we went in to the city via train and the free Staten Island Ferry. We had a great adventure at MOMA and with a friend from Dublin, Sally Andre. I like walking around New York. The energy is exciting. First, we walked to the 9-11 Memorial and saw the new building.
Quite beautiful to come around the corner and see this.
Then we took the subway uptown and walked to MOMA. We saw the fascinating and complex Yoko Ono show. There was performance art and music and film and poetry from the 1960s. I really didn't know much about Ono's art, so I learned a good bit by experiencing her work. At first it seemed violent and scary. For example, there was a film in which she knelt and people in the audience came forward and used large scissors to cut off pieces of her clothing. I felt threatened by the danger of the gleaming scissors. It seemed as if she were making a statement about women's being attacked or parts being cut away or not valued. In a different section she had instructions for writing poetry and ideas for art. One of her themes is helping the audience make their own art, not just observe hers.
Some ideas were whimsical.
This one made me laugh out loud. I saw her lighter side in these.
We met a Dublin, GA, friend, Sally Andre, for lunch at MOMA. So fun to visit, hear all about her family, tell about ours, and talk about doing the loop. We had a thorough chat and then viewed Jacob Lawrence's "Migration" series together. Tomorrow I will share some observations about that and tell about the end of our day.
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