Beaudry getting his picture taken! Yellow hat, yellow shoes, yellow plastic bag, and some other yellow stuff!
-J.L. Gazabat
Beaudry Being Photogenic
Turtles
Kam is all about the turtles!
– J.L. Gazabat
Getting to experience the Highline today was amazing. I love the idea that they are revitalizing the side of the city that wasn’t getting much attention anymore. It was so beautiful and going to the Chelsea Market it was like being back in Seattle at Pikes Place. I really need to go back and get myself a dinosaur necklace. Then heading out to the Whitney was definitely the most awakening thing so far. I’m not sure how to describe the feelings but it was fresh in a way. It was eye opening soo massive, so huge and open space that made it comfortable. (And I saw Jesse Eisenberg which wasn’t to bad) Being able to see Basquit in person and Peter Saul and seeing every room had such an organized thought. It was amazing. So overwhelming.
Gave me an idea of what is to come.
Sam
Pierre Huyghe
The Roof Garden Commission by Pierre Huyghe was my favorite exhibit. Pierre Huyghe (born 1962, Paris) will install the third in a new series of site-specific commissions for the Museum’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Huyghe has spent the past 25 years working across media to create ritualistic and immersive encounters with art. At the Met, his project will explore the continuous transformation of cultural and natural systems through a complex grouping of heterogeneous elements derived from the Museum’s collection, architecture, and its environs. A related installation, Pierre Huyghe: Human Mask, will present the New York premiere of Huyghe’s new 19-minute video, Untitled (Human Mask) , which portrays a mysterious creature’s resilience in the aftermath of natural and man-made disaster.
Day 2 Metripolitan Museum of Art
After visiting The Metropolitan Museum of Art <http://www.metmuseum.org/> yesterday I was feeling a bit overwhelmed. There was so much to see, I woke up this morning at 6am and and went for a run in Central Park to decompress. The awe of being is such a big, buzy city along with seeing tons of art makes me appreciate the PNW that much more. 
Getting to to the Chelsea galleries was so casual as in I got to just walk in and see Keith Harring and so many o the artists out of nowhere. Reminds me of going to Santa Fe and having the opportunity to walk the streets there too. I definirely need to go back to the market to buy a dinosaur necklace!
Sam
Yesterday
I had made a list of things I would like to see and this wasn’t even on it. I was taken entirely by surprise how mentally moved I was by this piece. I did not know how relatable the emotion and anger would be to my own work. They tell you that you have to see a piece in person to really get it and it’s true. I remember a younger me referring to this piece as “bullshit”.
Jonathon Borofsky installing Running People – New Whitney
http://whitney.org/WatchAndListen/Artists?play_id=1112
Above is a link to a video of Jonathon Borofsky installing the wall painting of Running People at the New Whitney.
-Julie M.
Day 1
Time Square
The Met.
MAD
After seeing Ralph Pucci’s: The Art of the Mannequin I was interested in doing a little research about the mannequin. After reading a few article I started thinking about our fascination with the human figure. The mannequin is merely a glorified coat hanger, yet a version of body manufacturing and production . We are constantly bombarded with idealized versions of the human body but we often obsess over these aspirations rather than what we actually are. There was lot interesting information on the censorship of early mannequins. Like most forms of media the goal is to get the viewer to identify with the mannequin.
Ralph Pucci, “Glamour and youth are still what sells.”
