Museum of Modern Art

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  "Seeing works from two of my loves, Van Gogh & Monet." In 111 reviews
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  "I saw the real Van Gough painting of "Starry Night." In 119 reviews
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  "Check out the sculpture Garden and also the films." In 71 reviews
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  "vangogh, warhol, lichtenstein, cezanne, picasso." In 144 reviews
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  "You can't beat free Fridays sponsored by Target." In 35 reviews
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  "Almost surreal to see these paintings up close." In 109 reviews
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  "The special exhibits are always pretty interesting." In 39 reviews
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  "The de Kooning retrospective was incredibly curated." In 20 reviews

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• Review from Nitya D.

  

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  • Nitya D.

  Somerville, MA

  

  1/31/2013

  MOMA makes me happy. (: I love modern art. I don't understand a lot of it, but in a way I think that's kind of the point. It's sort of a big old Fuck You to traditionalists who say art should fit some arbitrary rubric. If something deemed as art evokes a response - be it happy, sad, mad, confused - it is serving its purpose. This is what I think anyway. What do I know, I'm just a review.
  
  Six floors of cool art with all the famous paintings like Starry Night (super neat to be standing within 2 inches and examining the varied, almost frenzied, brush strokes), Warhol's soup cans, The Scream (with a whole bunch of associated lithographs), water lilies courtesy of M. Monet that span an entire wall, demoiselles d'avignon (Picasso, your porn looks funny), among many other such pieces. There is also a floor with design elements spanning from the 50s until now, featuring gorgeous Eames chairs and coffee tables to shiny, futuristic sleeping bags/pods.
  
  There are also a couple of places to eat (and rest your feet!) within the museum, which when I eat there, makes me feel fancy as hell. "HEY, look at me, I'm daintily sipping some sauvignon blanc and eating crudites while discussing Magritte's mastery of the trompe l'oeil."
  
  It's free on Fridays from 4-8 pm. You should get there around 3:40ish and wait in line. Yes, it is indeed a massively long line that bends around the block. But it moves really quickly, I promise! The gift shop is cool too...so many strange little items that always are good gifts for the person who has everything or the friend for whom you never know what to get. P.S. The design store (with jewelry, watches, etc.) is separate from the main gift shop and is across the street.
  
  Ah! Just writing this whole thing made me a little giddy. I'm weird, I know.

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• Review from Keith O.

  

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  • Keith O.

  New York, NY

  

  1/29/2013 1 Check-in Here

  I hadn't been to this museum in ages, and after watching a Dr. Who episode on Van Gogh, I decided to pencil in a visit.  I specifically wanted to go see Starry Night which I heard is consistently the biggest draw in the museum.  
  
  I'm not going to give a general review of the place, but will single out some great locations I found inside the museum:
  
  Sculpture Garden - Unfortunately my visit was during the winter when the pools were dry, but even then I could appreciate the serenity of this place.  The garden is large and overlooks the fine dining restaurant on the first floor.  
  
  Painting and Sculpture I - This place has all the famous works with values that rivals the GDP's of small nations.  Of course, there are some works in there that are priceless and you can see why.  There is no better collection of European Impressionist work outside the Met.
  
  Painting and Sculpture II - Jasper Johns, Warhol, Pollock, and Rauschenberg.  Enough said.  If you are enrolled in an art program, this is pretty much your classroom because all the greats are here.
  
  Tip - If you have small kids, the museum has a program where admission for your party is free (That's a huge savings for a family of 4) if you can get to the Education Center (it's on the street opposite the main entrance on 54th street) by 10 AM.  Probably a good idea to queue up a bit earlier than that but you get a one hour tour of some exhibits whereupon you get a movie ticket for the film of the day and a pass good for that day and a return visit.  Can't beat it.

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