MoMA was extremely crowded.
Featured artist was Salvador Dali: his paintings and film.
Featured artist was Salvador Dali: his paintings and film.
Dali is one of Zic's favourite artist, you can imagine how excited he was:
Photography was not allowed in the exhibition but this is one of his most famous paintings which I saw upclose! "The Persistence of Memory"... it is only 24cm by 33cm! It is so much smaller than I thought it was!!!:
Other exhibitions allowed photography.This was by... *drumrolls*.... Pablo Picasso; "Girl before a mirror":
Frida Kahlo; "Self Potrait":
Rene Margritte; "The Menanced Assasin":
Picasso again; "Seated Bather":
Piet Mondrian; "Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red":
Piet Mondrian; "Composition 10":
Piet Mondrian; "Broadway Boogie-Woogie":
Claude Monet; "Water Lilies":
Pablo Picasso; "Three Musicians":
Giorgio de Chirico; "The Song of Love": 
Giorgio de Chirico; "Great Metaphysical Interior":
Frida Kahlo; "Self Potrait":
Rene Margritte; "The Menanced Assasin":
Picasso again; "Seated Bather":
Piet Mondrian; "Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red":
Piet Mondrian; "Composition 10":
Piet Mondrian; "Broadway Boogie-Woogie":
Claude Monet; "Water Lilies":
Pablo Picasso; "Three Musicians":
Giorgio de Chirico; "The Song of Love": 
Giorgio de Chirico; "Great Metaphysical Interior":
Giorgio de Chirico; "Gare Montparnasse":
Picasso's "Three women at the Spring":
Marcel Duchamp:
Marcel Duchamp; "Bicycle Wheel" and "In advance of the broken arm":
Henri Matisse; "The Piano Lesson":
Henri Matisse; "Goldfish and Scuplture":
Henri Matisse, "Still Life after Jan Davidsz de Heem's Dessert":
Henri Matisse, "Sculptures":
Wassily Kandinsky, "Picture with an Archer":
Who doesn't know this one? Its Vincent van Gogh; "Postman - Potrait of Joseph Roulin":
Van Gogh again with "The Olive Trees":
I could not find my favourite van Gogh painting, "The Starry Night"... its supposed to be in MoMA!!!Umberto Boccioni; "States of Mind I: The Farewells":
Umberto Boccioni; "Dynamism of a Soccer Player":
Umberto Boccioni; "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space":
Pablo Picasso; "Green Still-Life":
I think it will take forever for me to annotate all this... Picasso's:
One of his more famous paintings; "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon":
Picasso; "Ma Jolie":
Picasso, "The Architect's table":
George Braque; "Man with a guitar":
Juan Gris; "Grapes":
Pierre Suerat; "Port-en-Bessin: Entrance to the Harbor":
Paul Signac; "Setting Sun: Sardine Fishing":
Henri Rousseau; "The Dream":
Andy Warhol, "Campbell's Soup Cans":
"OOF" by Edward Ruscha and "Girl with Ball" by Roy Lichtenstein:
Andy Warhol:
Andy Warhol, "Gold Marilyn Monroe":
Jasper Johns; "Flag":
Jackson Pollock; "One Number 31":
Picasso's sculptures:
"Helicopter":
Another exhibition:
Showcasing furniture and architecture:
Toyo Ito's "Berkeley Art Museum":
Paul Rudolph's:
Daniel Libeskind's "Jewish Museum Berlin":
"Moebius Building" by Peter Eisenman:
And finally Zaha Hadid's doodlings:
Sculpture Garden:
Then we rushed downtown to take a ferry down to Liberty Island. But we missed the ferry that docks on the island by half an hour, instead we got a ship that took us around Hudson River around Manhattan:
Weather wasn't looking too good:
This is probably where you would be able to see the Twin Towers if they were still around:
Tallest building in New Jersey (also where Ching Hei's uncle works): 
It was raining cats and dogs by the time we got beside Liberty Island, you can't even see the statue!:
Brooklyn Bridge...:
Washington Bridge:
Under the Brooklyn Bridge... Feeling miserable!:
Just as we were about to dock back in the ferry terminal, the sun came out again...:
See the rainbow on the right?:
What a bitch, right?:
Now we could see it...:
I have a series of "pissed-off-at-other-tourist" shots... and this is one of them. Maybe I should dedicate one entry to all these shots:
Castle Clinton:
Downtown Manhattan is where places like Ground Zero and Wall Street are.
Zic the Superman?:
The famous bull that everyone had to queue up to take pictures with...:
Bullshit...:
The church at Wall Street:
Wall Street!!:
New York Stock Exchange:
Worship me, you money-grabbing slaves:
They filmed the finale of Heroes here FYI:
This is Ground Zero:
Train Station under the former World Trade Center: 
Umberto Boccioni; "Dynamism of a Soccer Player":
Umberto Boccioni; "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space":
Pablo Picasso; "Green Still-Life":
I think it will take forever for me to annotate all this... Picasso's:
One of his more famous paintings; "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon":Picasso; "Ma Jolie":
Picasso, "The Architect's table":
George Braque; "Man with a guitar":
Juan Gris; "Grapes":Juan Gris; "Guitar and Glasses":
Paul Cezanne, "The Bather":
Pierre Suerat; "Port-en-Bessin: Entrance to the Harbor":
Paul Signac; "Setting Sun: Sardine Fishing":
Henri Rousseau; "The Dream":
Andy Warhol, "Campbell's Soup Cans": "OOF" by Edward Ruscha and "Girl with Ball" by Roy Lichtenstein:
Andy Warhol:
Andy Warhol, "Gold Marilyn Monroe":
Jasper Johns; "Flag":
Jackson Pollock; "One Number 31":
Picasso's sculptures:
"Helicopter":
Another exhibition:
Showcasing furniture and architecture:"Metropol Parasol", a redevelopment project by J. Mayer H. in Seville Spain:
Moshe Safdie's:
Toyo Ito's "Berkeley Art Museum":
Paul Rudolph's:
Daniel Libeskind's "Jewish Museum Berlin":
"Moebius Building" by Peter Eisenman:
And finally Zaha Hadid's doodlings:
Sculpture Garden:
Then we rushed downtown to take a ferry down to Liberty Island. But we missed the ferry that docks on the island by half an hour, instead we got a ship that took us around Hudson River around Manhattan:
Weather wasn't looking too good:
This is probably where you would be able to see the Twin Towers if they were still around:
Tallest building in New Jersey (also where Ching Hei's uncle works): 
It was raining cats and dogs by the time we got beside Liberty Island, you can't even see the statue!:
Brooklyn Bridge...:
Washington Bridge:
Under the Brooklyn Bridge... Feeling miserable!:
Just as we were about to dock back in the ferry terminal, the sun came out again...:
See the rainbow on the right?:
What a bitch, right?:
Now we could see it...:
I have a series of "pissed-off-at-other-tourist" shots... and this is one of them. Maybe I should dedicate one entry to all these shots:
Castle Clinton:
The damaged "Globe Sculpture" found in Ground Zero by Fritz Koenig marks the memorial ground for the World Trade Centre:
Downtown Manhattan is where places like Ground Zero and Wall Street are.
Zic the Superman?:
The famous bull that everyone had to queue up to take pictures with...:
Bullshit...:
The church at Wall Street:
Wall Street!!:
New York Stock Exchange:
Worship me, you money-grabbing slaves:
They filmed the finale of Heroes here FYI:
This is Ground Zero:
Train Station under the former World Trade Center: 
We ended that night with shopping at Century 21. Its this shopping mall beside Ground Zero. It is the BEST place to shop in Manhattan. Designer proucts for less than half the price!!! Seriously! You can get anything from Versace to CK to Hugo Boss to Armani! The best kept secret in all Manhattan! I so wanna go there again when I am in New York!
Die die must visit!
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