The New Museum

While visiting the New Museum, I walked through the various galleries on each floor. It wasn't until after I came home was I informed by a friend that there was another free gallery at the back, I simply overlooked it and am pretty disappointed that I did. However from what I did see I took moderate interest in. To be honest, not much of what I saw grabbed my eye--which is why I wished I saw that first floor gallery. Overall I enjoyed the black Panther art, a lot of it looked the same to me, very illustrative posters, lithographic productions. I do enjoy very graphic works of art with solid flat planes of color, which much of this art displayed, but nothing in particular 'wowed' me. One of David Goldblatt's photographs that caught my attention was 'The Docrat's Lavatory'. It is a unique structure, that is obviously in ruin, but almost seemed like it could pass for some kind of modern building, had it been 'neater' I loved all of the angular shadows the structure cast, and the shadows in the bricks really highlighted the wall's texture. I also took a liking to his photograph 'Incomplete Houses' which was a display of many 'cookie cut' houses across the landscape--and by cookie cut i mean they were all the same. they were all the same even in their incompleteness, and the lightning in this particular image gave to contrasting dark and light sides to every house creating a nice pattern. The last aork which I took any interest in was David's 'Squatter Camp'. I love the grass in this, long blades of grass each flowing together in clumps creating what almost looked like waves. It very clearly shows the movement of the wind in this still image. I took little interest in the actual shacks, and overlooked them in favor of the trees along the horizon, which against the sky were very nice silhouettes.