BANNED: SITTING ON STEPS OF THE MET

Through April 2009 at least while it undergoes renovation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is forbidding people from sitting on its famous steps. What a travesty! The steps of the Met is one of the best places to sit on a warm day in all of New York City.

After I watched the guard shoo dozens of museumgoers from the steps, one young woman refused to budge, and remained sitting for a few minutes while guards stood nearby looking annoyed. After a short time the woman walked off. She told me she was a tourist from Montenegro and didn’t see any reason for the ban on sitting. And she was simply waiting for her friend to take her photograph on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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JEFF KOONS AT THE MET!

I find Jeff Koons's contemporary pieces completely enthralling and mesmerizing like the eye candy that they represent.  It was a highlight to see a collection of his pieces in LA and it really made an impact on me.  I find myself randomly pondering it.  So color me metallically excited to see that the Met is showing some of his pieces on their rooftop Cantor Roof Garden through the fall of 2008.  The Times is disapproving and critical of the rooftop placement where the NYC skyline dwarfs the sculptures.  And it's a good point, but I see eye to eye with them on this note:

Their setting aside, Mr. Koons’s sculptures remain intellectually and sensuously exciting objects — “Balloon Dog” is a masterpiece — and they are worth visiting under any circumstances.

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