3 lines on a wall and they call it art. (The Museum of Modern Art MoMA)

Member Name: Dexter01

Product:	The Museum of Modern Art MoMA
Date:	22/10/09 (73 review reads)
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Advantages: Free on Friday, Central location.

Disadvantages: Packed full of people, is all a bit pretentious.

MOMA-The Museum of Modern Art. A relatively famous art museum in New York City. It is located in a rather non descript building on 53rd Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues. It is not to be confused with the grander looking Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMOA), which is located on 5th Avenue, set into Central Park.

Now, I am not an art lover by any means. In fact, I would go as far as saying it does bore me slightly. This does not put me off having my mind changed or trying new things, so on our recent trip to the city, we found ourselves heading for the MOMA. I shall be honest at this point though. We only found ourselves entering this art place, as it was free to get in. Between 4pm and closing every Friday afternoon, the museum is free to enter. At all other times, the prices to get in are : Adults $20, Over 65 $16, Students $12 and under 12's free. The museum opens at 10:30am and closes at 5:30pm, except on Friday, when it is 8pm.

As we went when it was free entry, this review shall focus on that. Having looked on the MOMA website before visiting, it advises arriving an hour to 2 hours after 4pm on the Friday, as the queue at that time is rather large. Now, taking that advice, we arrived at 5:30pm and found no queue, but the place was absolutely rammed with people. I did find it odd that you can't just walk straight in. We tried to go straight through the security barriers and were informed we needed tickets. So a little walk back down to the main lobby and grabbed 2 tickets off the side (as they are just printed out and placed on the side?!) and away we went.

Like I said, the place was rammed with people. Now, I have a strange disliking of people at the best of times and when it's crowded, it does get my goat up. We perservered though and after a 5 minute walk up some stairs, round some corridors, we found some exhibits. As I have said, I am not an art person, so it did all go above my head rather easily.

I only remember a few exhibits, mainly because what I did see was pretty dire to be honest. I really don't understand art at all. One exhibit was 3 different coloured straight lines on the wall. Seriously!!!! I can draw that. Another was a American Army Land Jeep, nothing done to it, just sitting there. Then there was a room of light shades, all of which I had seen in Ikea before.

Now, there were 2 pieces of art that I did like. The first was a picture of a person. Picture of a person you say. This was different in that it was made entirely out of cigarettes. All bent and unbroken into call shapes to make the person. It was very cool looking. Then there was a picture titled Mr Penis Head. I think you can draw your own conclusions of that picture, but it did amuse the inner child in me.

As the place was so packed, we decided after an hour of trying to get in everywhere that we would leave. If you enjoy art and understand it, then I would expect you will enjoy visiting here. If you are like me however, I would give it a miss, unless you go when it's free on the Friday.

I've given it a generous 3 stars, as it is a good place, but something that I don't enjoy. I can't fault something just because it's not my cup of tea.

Summary: The art really is modern.