Rockefellar UN-Met Phantom

Tuesday 12th May 2009

The Metropolitan Museum. The special exhibit 'The Model as Muse' displaying fashion trends over time from 1947-1997. These are haute couture fourties, swinging sixties, toned athelticism seventies, and ubiquitious celebrity supermodels or idiosyncratic and eccentric diversity in nineties.

Metropolitan Museum was huge. Consisting an odd bag of everything from Egyptian relics(top left) to Gothic revival interior to Weapons of various civilisations to Monet's impressionism to some weird steel art by Anish Kapoor from India to Oboes (bottom right). I did not manage to go to every section of the museum and I even got lost.

I enjoyed hijacking museum tourguides and listening to their stories- Pollock's painting or 'Burghers of Calais' by Rodin. After the Met we went to see the outside of gugenheim but his works weren't ready for us and similarly we weren't eager to dive into more art that day.

Visited UN which is officially land not belonging to the USA. The exhibit on the plight of Rwanda although only half done was enough to made me shed a tear for them. Each member country had to present a gift to UN and I can't remember whether this was one of those gifts.

GE building of the Rockefeller Center. Some kind of philantropist and his words of wisdom on display in front of Prometheus.

I watched Phantom of the Opera at the Majestic Theater. Fanastic costumes and hearing those familiar beautiful tunes live was surreal. Story abit complex at some parts.

End of the day eating MacDs fries and sundae in the middle of Time Square.