New York

I was lucky enough to spend 3 weeks in New York a few years ago.  It would be super to go back and see how it has changed.

The things I liked about the Big Apple included:

Central Park – of course

Going out to Long Island for a girly weekend (but the traffic jam coming back was amazing – and not in a good way)

Reuben sandwich in a kosher deli (no one told me one sandwich would be enough for several people!)

Going on a ferry round the Statue of Liberty – it may be corny but boy it was spectacular!

Shopping on 5^th Avenue!

Their parking signs 

Going to MOMA – and while eating lunch in the café realising that the little goat figure on the grass was a Picasso!

Things that I found a bit odd were:

Taxi drivers that wouldn't take you right to the building you wanted to go to but insisted on letting you off at a cross street even when you are alone and it's late at night!

Getting knocked over in broad daylight by someone running fast and absolutely no one stopping to help – I was even stepped over.  This was on 6^th avenue.  It wasn't a dodgy area or anything.

The noise at night – sure is the city that never sleeps!

MOMA – New York

MOMA in New York is my second most favourite gallery – second to the Musée d’Orsay.  MOMA stands for the Museum of Modern Art. 

It houses over 150,000 artworks – so it is clearly impossible to take it all in.  There are some massive Monet Water Lilies – which have to be seen in person – you just don’t get the same impression in a small reproduction.  Some of the other most striking art from my point of view is:

Joan Miro - Hirondelle Amour

Picasso - Girl Before a Mirror

Matisse - La Danse

Van Gogh - Starry Night



Jasper Johns - Flag

Kandinsky - Painting No 200

Paul Klee - Two Tents

Mondrian - A Composition

It also has a great store where you can buy a huge range of prints and modernistic gadgets like a super iPad stand.  They do have an online site although it seemed a bit unstable when I tried it recently.