My experience at the Sidney Mishkin Art Gallery wasn’t what I expected. Thursday afternoons are known as club hours and most of us from LC 20 didn’t want to put our time to waste. We decided to head to 22nd street and check out the widely talked about art gallery.
When we arrived to the gallery, there was about ten or eleven LC 20 members; the gallery was empty. We had a short five minute introductory tour from Dr. Sandra Kraskin. She was very kind and she told us about the gallery’s theme, social groups. As said above, our first thought was Facebook; however, Dr. Kraskin was expecting for someone to say family because we are all close to our family. Most of the pictures were ordinary pictures. Each photograph represented something different. There were pictures of Swedish soccer fans, naked people playing baseball, religious people praying; it was unexpected. When I heard “art gallery” I was expecting some crazy art work that we could find in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and etc. The small space of the Mishkin art gallery was comforting. It was a nice, calm, and quiet room. Much less pictures than I thought but I enjoyed the theme of the gallery. The space made me feel secure. I can’t really say much about the space in the gallery.
As stated a few posts below, this gallery about social groups portrayed the importance of the groups. It also taught us that we should be thankful for whatever riches and technologies we can afford because there are millions of people worldwide that aren’t as fortunate as we are. Despite a small gallery and a shorter than anticipated visit, I enjoyed the Sidney Mishkin Art Gallery; I think we all did. It was a nice workshop. I’m looking forward to the other workshops as well!
-Robi Baazashvili
