NYC day 6 - Friday

I woke up a bit late today, watching vampire movies all night did wonders for my dreams. I had some good ones!! My sister was heading out for a doctor's appointment so I got my butt off of the couch and out the door. We rode the bus downtown together. She needed some help getting Ethan and the stroller on board. So we did that and parted ways.



I headed over to the Guggenheim Museum for attempt #2. When I got inside there was a huge line like Disney World or something. So I decided to wait a bit and headed over to the Cooper-Union Design Museum. This was a very good choice. Unfortunately half of the museum was under renovation but there was a good show called Re: Design. Each gallery had a different artist/designer making things out of sustainable material and how these objects could be produced without waste and with efficiency, etc. I hate to use the "G" word because it is such a BS term these days but yes.



After that, I tried to Guggenheim for a third time, the line was half as long so I decided to go for it. It was well worth the wait. They had a special exhibit about the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. As he is the architect that designed the museum, it was very cool to see a exhibit about an artist who designed the space that housed it...





Also, being from Chicago, I have a bit of home town connection to the great Architect. I was happy and sad to learn about some of the things he designed that are now gone and so many other things that were never built. His ideas are still ahead of their time and maybe, just maybe someday people will actually listen to his wisdom. His projects were often turned down due to the ballooning costs and it seemed like he would go so far beyond what the original commission, kind of like Michelangelo and his "Sistine Chapel" ceiling... Well if he would have been removed from duty or if the Pope would have stopped the project, imagine a world without that ceiling..




Maybe looking at the world we live in today with a cynical eye may have been much better if some of his projects would have gone through... who knows and maybe some day it will - check out the Birj Dubai tower.. cool stuff.