Busy day

Thursday, 4^th of October 2012

Today we went to MoMA, Museum of Modern Art which is a museum for art of the twentieth century, where we saw Pablo Picasso’s cubistic painting Les demoiselle d’Avignon, which was much bigger than we expected it to be. We were really excited about seeing the exhibition of the paintings of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, but they had taken the paintings down to replace them. Instead we saw the American exhibition with artists as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Jackson Pollock. It was very American indeed. We saw the chair “The Ant” by Arne Jacobsen, a Danish designer, and we found it to be very cool that a Danish designer had made it in New York, and that New York wants his stuff on a museum. Very prestigious.

Some people took the art more serious than others and Helena and Isse were not two of them. This white painting with a bit colour down in the left corner is apparently very expensive art - don't Isse and Helena look more artistic?

 

 

 

 

 

We visited the City University – Center for Latin American and Caribbean studies, where we heard of Latinos in New York, from a professor who knows a lot about the Latin American immigrants’ history. It was very enlightening and interesting, and it gave some positive and surprising facts. Afterwards we had time to go shopping, and we found a couple of stores that we visited at Fifth Avenue.

Tonight is our last night with our French studying classmates that are leaving us tomorrow for Quebec in Canada. We will have a blast, when they are gone. Hopefully. :D

Tomorrow we are going to see Spanish Harlem, which is a Spanish part of Manhattan, where we will visit “El Museo del Barrio.” We are also thinking about visiting “The Empire State Building” and “Broadway”, when we are finished with tomorrow’s program and have some time off to do what we want.

When we were shopping we saw these Lady Gaga shoes, and Isse just had to try such a pair.
1. It looks stupid
2. They cost almost 200 dollars
3. They are strange to walk in
4. The salesman said Isse looked like Lady Gaga - positive or negative? :D

This picture of Nasdaq is to Isse's father :D

We also went for a bustrip to Harlem where many black people live. We drove in this bus which we think was bulletproof (anyway sounds cool). In Harlem we could feel that people were more poor and living under worse conditions of life than most people in inner Manhattan. It was interesting to see the difference, but most of us were really really tired on that trip and sometimes it was really hard to hear, what they guide said in the mic.