I hope I don’t upset anyone with my opinion of The Guggenheim, but to be honest I was very unimpressed. The building itself is amazing, and from my new architecture minded point of view, I am astonished at Frank Lloyd Wright’s work and ideas. He was able to use space to portray art that within itself displays art, and move people through the space very efficiently. I noticed the walls didn’t go quite all the way to the floor, missing about 1/4″ or so. One of the volunteers told me they can move the walls when different exhibits are displayed, I thought that was pretty cool.
However, the art itself… eh. They had a very small amount of their permanent collection on display. However, there were a few works by impressionist painters that I enjoyed seeing. There were even two Pablo Picasso paintings that were done before his era of Cubism that I’ve never seen before. They were of the French working life in the early 1900′s and painted in a very solemn/subdued look, very atypical Picasso. The Lee Ufan exhibit that is on display now, and is the majority of what you see at the museum. It was kind of weird to me. I’m sure some people can find art in it and have a different view point, but I just didn’t get it. Rocks on pillows on the floor look just like that to me. Sad, I know.
There was also a Hugo Boss display of money. Yes, money. There were 100,000 $1 bills on the walls, facing both directions, layered on top of each other. They covered the 9 geometric sides of the room and 2 expansive columns inside the room. If I had that much money to put on display, I could do it too!
So yea, I bought a groupon to this museum 2 months ago and did not realize it was only good for the month of May. Sadly I lost my $12 groupon and payed $15 for a student ticket to get into the museum. Oh well, I enjoyed looking at the inside of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural wonder and I can I say I saw the Guggenheim! There was no photography allowed once you left the bottom floor, so this is all I have.
