Thomas Locke Hobbs

Currently: Buenos Aires

MoMA

On Sunday I went to the new MoMA for the first time. It was an oddly disembodied experience. I crawled out of bed, hungover, and went to the museum on a whim, thinking fresh air and light would do me good, before realizing just how queasy I felt. I shuffled thru the galleries unshaved, unshowered, wearing a baseball cap and listening to my mini-disc, head throbbing. Everyone else was well-dressed and intently engaging with the art, seemingly determined to get value out of their $20 admission. I'm spoiled by my free pass.

Some first impressions: Damn, they have a lot of Picassos, There's nowhere to sit, Minimalist art looks much better in large old factories [Dia], Contemporary photography looks better at exhibition [where you see a bunch of it side-by-side, altho I guess the same can be said of any artist, witness the whole room full of Picassos], the Contemporary galleries are BIG. On the plus side, they have a very generous photography policy; pretty much everything is OK, except, [oddly? ironically?] the Photography galleries.

BTW, if you know me, I can get you in for free. Just let me know.

Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Hi. I'm a 32 year-old American currently living in Buenos Aires. Before that I lived in California, Sao Paulo and New York and if you browse through the archives below you can see photos of all those places. I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures.