Month: September 2017

Last Friday, I visited the museum at FIT. Even though the museum was pretty small, it had a number of exquisite dresses, bag and shoes. The exhibition “Force of nature” showed us how nature has inspired fashion designers as well as artists in their creation of such unique pieces in their works.  This includes the usages of feathers, fur, patterns and flowers in their clothings as well as hats and shoes. Fashion has always been a big industry that everyone patrons, we may buy clothes, shoes, bags more than once in a year and browse through a vast collection of clothes.  This gallery showcases where some designers get their inspiration from, from animals, from the sky and things that are in their environment. It is amazing how creative we can be, turning simple things from our environment into some masterpieces that wows many. I wish that the museum displayed more fashion pieces and perhaps explain to us more about the process of how such statement pieces are created.

I really enjoyed this experience at the museum and will probably visit it again when they change their exhibition.

-Rui Qi Sim

On September 1st I visited one of the best museums in NYC, the MET, or Metropolitan Museum of Art. It has been a while since I visited this museum and I did not remember much of it. Sadly, I was not able to complete the whole thing in just one day. Monet’s paintings alone took up nearly an hour! I did however make my way through a decent amount of exhibits, including a beautiful Cristobal de Villalpando selection (shown below), as well as Comme de Garcon’s fashion showing. These three exhibits stood out the most because of Monet’s beauty, the size of Cristobal’s paintings, and the abstractness of Garcon’s fashion line. Monet’s paintings while appearing to have no definitive lines still show every single detail inside the canvas. Cristobal’s painting, ” Moses and the Brazen Serpent and the Transfiguration of Jesus,” is a 28 foot tall canvas encapsulating two biblical events in one transitioning piece, truly breathtaking. As for Garcon’s fashion line, it was very interesting but I guess I do not understand her take on fashion art pieces. They were very abstract to say the least but gather quite a large crowd inside the exhibit.

The reason I like the MET is because  even after a prolonged period of absence, exhibits such as Medieval Knights remain a center-piece of the museum. This brings me a nostalgic feeling allowing me to recollect past memories when I used to visit the same exhibits with my relatives almost a decade ago. I enjoyed this academic experience, being able to (without any cost) experience and learn about contemporary as well as past art and compare the two in a single day. To anyone hesitant about visiting this jewel of NYC, take the 6 train to 77th street and see for yourself, I guarantee you will find at least one piece inside the museum that you will love.

-Konrad Szenfeld

This picture was taken at a Beta Alpha Psi’s general meeting last Thursday in the Newman Vertical building. Beta Alpha Psi is one of Baruch’s most prestigious and oldest business fraternity. At the beginning of the meeting, we all had to sign-in online and then the members and the board of the fraternity proceeded with talking about the qualifications of rushing the fraternity and what activities they do. They talked about the fraternity’s main goals of brotherhood, professionalism and community service. To be honest, I did not like the club that much because of the fact that they are interested in people who are finance, accounting or csi majors. I will not be joining the club because I am a biology major, but I would be interested in attending some of their future activities and events.  I am open to and would like to join new clubs in order to meet new people.