After going to bed early and getting up early we returned to the city via train…There were a few things I still wanted to see. First we went to the Metropolitan Museum to see the summer roof installation The Big Bambu.
We even stood in line for awhile to sign up for the tour which takes you climbing up into it…
…but Mr O and I aren’t good at waiting in lines and you weren’t allowed to take a camera with you…
…so we just enjoyed the bamboo patterns above… .
and the shadow patterns below…
as well as the view…right from the rooftop.
We went directly from bamboo garden to a replica of a Chinese garden court…
..to an exhibit of Leon Levinstein photography. Although I liked his quote, his photos were not my favorites…
…especially when compared to those of Henri Cartier Bresson which we later viewed at MOMA.
“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
This exhibit was exquisite, crowded, and HUGE…room after room after room…and was really more than should be seen in one day…but when you rarely get to NYC and it is the last few days of the exhibit…you carry on… We also took in the exhibit Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography which deserved an entire day to itself. Thankfully MOMA also has a wonderful cafe that serves wine…
Museum hopping is one of my favorite things to do and I am fortunate to have family and friends who are patient and kind enough to go with me.
