On October 5th, I went to the Whitney museum with a few friends and I didn’t know what to expect. I’ve been to a few museums before but I don’t remember any of them, so I’ll be looking at all of these art pieces with fresh eyes. The outside of the building was huge which was to be expected, it’s a museum after all. Everything looked elegant and fancy and upon entering the interior was just as big. I thought we had to pay for the tickets but luckily the tickets were free for CUNY students. After scanning our tickets,we arrived at the sixth floor and we were hit with a bunch of art from paintings, to photos, sculptures, and some video clips. The theme of the sixth floor was to show the incomplete protest of america. This was interesting as I got to see many different styles of expression. There were art pieces depicting things during the time of the Vietnam war and things from present day. On the seventh floor the themes were family and community, work, home, the spiritual, and the nation. There was a lot of different things going on in this floor and it was a lot to take in. But my favorite painting while roaming that floor was the white painting on a white canvas. It was really funny when we saw it because we were talking about this exact painting when we were walking to the museum. After that we walked outside which was basically a huge balcony. We also took this thine to walk up to the eighth floor and that floor was showing art in motion. Sadly we came too late and we couldn’t see the art pieces move and I was confused when we were roaming that area. I thought most of the art were huge baby mobiles when I saw them and when I asked my friends they told me it was about art in motion. Since this was the last floor we decided to leave and the elevator we took was massive. It could probably fit 50 people considering the size and the interior had a painting of a basket which was really unique. This experience was really cool, although it was mostly sight seeing I saw a lot of cool art pieces in the process.
