GRACE CHURCH in NEW YORK

After last Sunday afternoon's organ meditation at Grace Episcopal Church, I made an image of the magnificent interior. Designed in the Gothic Revival style, the church is located at 802 Broadway.

VERY SPECIAL FLOWERS

A flower shop called VSF (Very Special Flowers) in the West Village features a window display of beautiful flower arrangements such as those shown above.

"COLOR CHART: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today" at the MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

“COLOR CHART: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today” is an ongoing exhibit at the MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (MOMA) through May 12. The exhibit “celebrates a paradox: the lush beauty that results when contemporary artists assign color decisions to chance, readymade source, or arbitrary system.” (moma.org info). I took photos of an untitled painted aluminum art construction by American artist DONALD JUDD on the sixth floor of the MOMA, as well as ZOBOP by British-born JIM LAMBIE, a multicolor floor installation made of vinyl tape in the Museum’s Agnes Gund Garden Lobby.

Color Chart also features the works of other artists including Andy Warhol, John Chamberlain, Sherrie Levine, Giulio Paolini, André Cadere, François Morellet, Niele Toroni, Sol LeWitt, and Lawrence Weiner. The MOMA security guards wear striped silk vests in five different colors created by Daniel Buren.

DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME: Spring Forward

It's time to set the clocks forward again this weekend for Daylight Saving Time. Above is a photo that I took of the clock in front of the Grand Central Station facade facing 42nd Street. The 13-foot clock contains the world's largest example of Tiffany glass. It is surrounded by a 50-foot sculpture of Mercury (the god of commerce), Minerva and Hercules (symbolizing mental and moral strength). 

ROOM WITH A VIEW - The Top of the Rock

Above are photos from a recent visit to the Top of the Rock Observation Deck which offers spectacular views of Manhattan. Information about this tourist site available at this link: http://www.topoftherocknyc.com

Inopportune: Stage One, CAI GUO-QIANG's art installation at the GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

On exhibit at the SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM is artist CAI GUO-QIANG's "I Want To Believe" from February 22 through May 28. I took photos of one of Cai's work called "Inopportune: Stage One" occupying the central atrium. The art installation is a cascade of nine real cars, some of which are suspended from the top of the museum's rotunda, as well as sequenced multichannel light tubes of varying lengths. The white nine cars are installed in a cinematic progression with an "explosion" of lights to simulate a car bombing.

Early in his career, Chinese native Cai explored the properties of gunpowder in his drawings, that eventually led to his experimentation with explosives on a large scale. He has become known for his signature explosion projects including this exhibition. This is the first major exhibition for a China-born artist at the Guggenheim Museum which is located at 1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street.