I heard of MOMA’s P.S.1 Contemporary Center in Long Island City for the longest time, but never really went to check it out until now.  Maybe because I just dunno how to appreciate Art, but almost everything in PS1 are too “contemporary” for my taste! The whole time I was like, “What am I looking at? Why?” And for your information I don’t have that problem when I go to the Main MOMA in midtown, I enjoyed it there.

Each summer the courtyard of PS1 would have an eye-catching structure built by their Young Architect Program as a backdrop for the summer WarmUp concert.  When it comes to art, architecture is usually my favorite.  For years I would be able to see the top part of whatever structure that was built, every time I passes by.  It usually makes me want to know what’s behind the wall because the structure always look cool and interesting.  Not this year though! The structure in their courtyard looks like someone used man many human hair and animal fur to make a hut!  It just look digesting to me even if when you get up close you will see it’s not hair or fur.  But still, it just look horrible!  Especially when you compare it to the previous ten structures of the last ten years – they have an exhibit documenting the ten years of the Young Architect Program.  Even many of the runner-up designs would have been better!  I don’t get it why they choose this fury structure this year!

Many of the exhibits in PS1 involves video artwork, which I don’t get.  The stand out art work for me is the simplest one, a white bed with two white pillows on it, one has the word “C3PO”, one has “R2D2″! That’s so geeky and cute that I love it!  But the best art pieces in PS1 is a swimming pool, well, an art that looks like a swimming pool on the surface.  However, when you go downstairs on the side, you can actually go underneath the water and look back up! It’s super cool and I like it a lot!

And that’s all I can say about PS1, maybe someone else would enjoy the contemporary art a little more than I do~

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