June 20, 2006

• New York, New York

  My friend from Boston asked me if I’d like to go to New York with her. She’s getting her PH.D in Art History with an emphasis in American Art and said she needed to go see the Whitney Museum of American art in New York. Of course, I said yes.

  I flew into Boston, and we took the Fung Wah bus. For those of you not familiar with the Fung Wah, it’s a bus that takes you from Chinatown in Boston to Chinatown in New York, and it’s only $15 each way which is significantly lower that any other transportation route. Regardless, it can be exhausting, as it’s a 4 hour bus ride, not to mention that Canal street in New York (where you get dropped off) is an insanely busy street with blocks of vendors selling faux handbags and rolex watches. But exchanging comfort for cheap transportation is what you do when you’re young, right?

  Amongst a variety of humerous things that happened, the kicker was when we arrived at the Whitney only to find that the entire permanant collection was closed! They are getting ready for their 75th anniversary show, and so that only thing that was available was a special Hopper exhibit on the top floor. Though the Hopper exhibit was wonderful, it was a big disappointment. And I’d also like to point out that we had checked the website a few times before we arrived and no where does it say that the museum is basically closed!

  All in all though, it was a lovely time, highlights which included eating at a Korean BBQ, seeing the Hopper and a Jackson Pollock exhibit of small works on paper, and being in New York in non-extreme weather conditions for the first time! (My first trip to NYC was in a blizzard, the second trip during a heat wave in August!)

  

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