Our first morning we awoke to cheers in addition to the common sounds of traffic with sirens and horns honking. Across from our hotel was the ABC Studios where Good Morning America broadcasts each morning live from Times Square. There was the television crew and the crowd surrounding the hosts. The traffic was blocked off so that the show could be telecast without anyone being hit by a taxi flying along at 60 mph. Below are the daytime views from our room.
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| ABC Studio is directly beneath the green sign |
One of the things that allowed me to look forward to the trip to NY was the fact that they had so many wonderful art museums. Now I really love art but my brain can only process so much at once so my trusty Tour Director had us scheduled for a museum every-other-day. This would give us time to reflect and digest all of this fabulous art!
Our first stop would be MOMA (Museum of Modern Art). After waiting in a short line, we managed to get inside by 10:30. There was a Magritte exhibit going on so we headed to the special exhibit gallery first thing.
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Below are my favorites from the show.....
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| I love this self portrait |
We decided to have an early lunch on the outdoor balcony (we had a delicious quinoa and chickpea salad, very healthy choice) and they served Randy this NY sized Coke (thanks Mayor Bloomberg for protecting us from ourselves). It must have held all of 8 ounces.
After lunch we hit the Impressionists hard. First in the gallery was this little Gauguin lovely...
We spent hours enjoying work by Cezanne, Seurat, Van Gogh, Picasso, Miro, oh my gosh, the list goes on and on. As much good art as we saw, I've just got to share this....
Look at the two above pieces. Biggify them so that you get a really good look. How much time and effort do you think went in to the execution of each of them? Let me just say that the one on the right insults and offends me, yet it is still art and hangs in a museum. Go figure!
We continued on to see Pollock, Picasso, Rothko, Matisse, Kandinsky, and finally a room of Monet's waterlilies (some of my personal favorites). By this time we were feeling worn out. The slow walking and sensory overload was taking its toll because we had been looking at art for about 4 hours.
We were almost ready to leave when we saw that there was also an Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keefe exhibit (another couple of my favorites) so we headed for that. The exhibit was small and included some of Stieglitz's photos of O'Keefe. We were also able to see some photography by Edward Weston.
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| Edward Hopper |
By now we were dead on our feet and I knew that we had a HUGE day of walking ahead of us the next day so we headed back to our hotel to rest before dinner.
Dinner.... oh, my! It was a wonderful treat! We ate at Carmine's! We had been warned that it was "family style" so we only had Chicken Parmesan and linguini with bread. It was out of this world and there was enough left over for 2 more people! We couldn't even hold dessert!
What a great time so far and I couldn't wait until the next day!
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