MoMa

A few months ago I blogged that I was going to visit more museums and galleries on my days off. I visited The American Museum of Natural History, really enjoyed it, and then forgot about my goal until Jen mentioned it recently. Well, this week I followed up on my previous statement by visiting The Museum of Modern Art (MoMa). In Midtown, not far from our apartment, it offers amazing collections of contemporary architecture, design, drawings, paintings, sculpture, photography, books, and film. I entered into its vast lobby, headed to the information desk, and found out I get in for free because I’m a student at a city college. I like this place already! Some of the highlights for me were the collections of wild midcentury-modern furniture, evolving NYC urban design, and the outdoor garden that the museum surrounds (pic). After feeling like I got my money’s worth in the museum, ha, I headed to the design store which had really cool modern gifts. You can visit the store anytime without paying admission and I’ll probably be going back to show Jen. I could have easily spent a lot of money in there. I’ve always liked modern art but enjoyed the museum even more than I thought I would. This is usually the case with me and museums and the reason I want to continue exploring the ones NYC has to offer.

Around the time I was leaving Jen was getting off work so we decided to meet at Herald Square to do some (more) Christmas shopping. With the combination of holiday shoppers, heavy security due to the President being on the move somewhere close to MoMa, and people heading to the Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting, the sidewalks were packed! Once I finally made it we started at Macy’s which was just slightly less crazy. As frustrating as it all can be, the stores, and really the city in whole looks best this time of year. Entire buildings in the major shopping districts are dripping with lights or wrapped in ribbon like big packages.

I’m working tonight but Jen and I have all day tomorrow (Friday) off and might go to a taping of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tomorrow evening if we can get standby tickets. Hope so!