The restaurant gathered this group of nearly strangers for our welcome dinner. Forcing us into a crammed table at the back of the restaurant. The great food, music and good vibes set the tone for the trip.
Family style was defiantly the way to go!
Bailey Carrell
Walk to Milon
What an amazing introduction to NYC. The walk to 1st Ave. with the golden light peering through the buildings made NYC feel magical. Little did I know this feeling would quickly subside with the constant “noise” of the city.
MoMA PS1
Samara Golden: The Flat Side of the Knife
On view October 26, 2014–September 7, 2015
Los Angeles-based artist Samara Golden (American, b. 1973) creates immersive installations that explore what she calls the sixth dimension, where a multitude of pasts, presents, and futures exist concurrently. For The Flat Side of the Knife, Golden presents her largest installation to date, filling the double-height of MoMA PS1’s Duplex Gallery with staircases, beds, couches, lamps, musical instruments, video, and sound.
http://momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/390
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans
Book for Architects
Wolfgang Tillmans’s installation Book for Architects (2014) is on view at the Metropolitan Museum for the first time since its debut at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. Over a period of ten years, Tillmans (German, born 1968) photographed buildings in thirty-seven countries on five continents to produce Book for Architects. The 450 photographs are presented in a site-specific, two-channel video installation projected onto perpendicular walls.
http://metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2015/wolfgang-tillmans
Fatal Attraction
Piotr Uklański Selects from the Met Collection
This installation of works from the permanent collection was organized by the New York–based artist Piotr Uklański (born Poland, 1968), whose photographs are on view in the current exhibition Fatal Attraction: Piotr Uklański Photographs. His chosen theme is Eros and Thanatos—the intertwined concepts of life force and death wish that Sigmund Freud interpreted as warring within each individual and within Western civilization as a whole. Although long since discredited as psychological truth, Eros and Thanatos is a hardy cultural construct—from the quintessentially French description of climax as “la petite morte” to Richard Wagner’s “Liebestod” from Tristan und Isolde to Woody Allen’s Love and Death.
http://metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2015/piotr-uklanski-selects
El Museo
UNDER THE MEXICAN SKY: Gabriel Figueroa—Art and Film
On view March 4, 2015 – June 27, 2015
From the early 1930s through the early 1980s, the Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa (1907–1997) helped forge an evocative and enduring image of Mexico. Among the most important cinematographers of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, Figueroa worked with leading directors from Mexico, the United States and Europe, traversing a wide range of genres while maintaining his distinctive and vivid visual style.
In the 1930s, Figueroa was part of a vibrant community of artists in many media, including Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, Edward Weston and Manuel Alvarez Bravo, who sought to convey the country’s transformation following the trauma of the Mexican Revolution. Later, he adapted his approach to the very different sensibilities of directors Luis Buñuel and John Huston, among others. Figueroa spoke of creating una imágen mexicana, a Mexican image. His films are an essential part of the network of appropriations, exchanges and reinterpretations that formed Mexican visual identity and visual culture in the mid-twentieth century and beyond.
The exhibition features film clips, paintings by Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, Manuel Rodriguez Lozano and José Chavez Morado, photographs, prints, posters and documents, many of which are drawn from Figueroa’s archive, the Televisa Foundation collection, the collections of the Museo de la Estampa and the Museo Nacional in Mexico. In addition, the exhibition includes work by other artists and filmmakers from the period such as Luis Buñuel, Sergei Eisenstein, Edward Weston, and Tina Modotti that draw from the vast inventory of distinctly Mexican imagery associated with Figueroa’s cinematography or were heavily influenced by his vision.
http://www.elmuseo.org/under-the-mexican-sky/
Museum of the City of New York: JUN 17, 2015 – NOV 29, 2015
In the 1950s and 1960s, folk music blossomed in New York City, especially in Greenwich Village, where clubs and coffee houses showcased singers like Pete Seeger and Odetta and nurtured a generation of newcomers, including Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Dave Van Ronk, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, and Peter, Paul and Mary. The multi-media Folk City: New York and the Folk Music Revival, featuring original instruments, handwritten lyrics, and video and film footage, traces the roots of the revival, its growth in New York, its major players, and its impact on American politics and culture during the tumultuous 196 http://www.mcny.org/folkcity
Hosteling International Student Contract: Rules of conduct
Hostelling International: NYC
Amenities: http://hinewyork.org/about-hi-new-york/
Virtual Tour: http://hinewyork.org/look-inside-hi-new-york/
Questions: http://hinewyork.org/about-hi-new-york/faq/ 
A Series of Events “Art Sale”
Second Event in “A Series of Events” Hosted by Western Students to Fund NYC Travel
Art 497E Fundraising
Metro Art Access: NYC
What: Back2Bellingham “Art Sale” – Prints, Drawings, Small Crafts & Portraits
Where: WWU Campus – Booth outside of Fine Arts
When: Saturday, May 16, 2015 9am-6pm
Participating Students: Beaudry Allen//Bailey Carrell//Minerva Dimla//Melissa Hand//Rebekkah James//David Johnston//Julie McPheters//Ella Ordona//Kameron Peck//Hannah Pylate//Celeste Siebenbaum//Maxwell Singler
BELLINGHAM – A group of Western Washington University students, enrolled in Art 497E Metro Art Access: NYC, have planned a series of fundraising events to support their travels to New York City.
The second event within this exciting fundraising series will be an “Art Sale” hosted during Back2Bellingham on WWU campus Saturday, May 16, 2015. The sale will include various works made by students such as prints, drawings, and portraits. Size and prices will depend on the work.
The funds being raised will contribute to the students’ travel expenses for the summer course Art 497E Metro Art Access: NYC. During this program students will have the wonderful opportunity to visit commercial galleries, unique site-specific installations, and major institutions in one of the world’s greatest art centers. Some of the sites students will experience include: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim, The Frick Collection, New Museum, The Museum of Art and Design, MoMA PS1, DIA Beacon, and The 911 Memorial Museum.
Upcoming Fundraising Events:
Art Walk Exhibition: 201 Grand Ave. June 5, 2015
Portrait Day: WWU FI Room 108, June 13, 2015
Contact: Bailey Carrell at 970.819.1111