This past Thursday, I went to visit the Museum of Modern Art with my good friend Attilio. In all honesty, I did not have high hopes for the museum. Going through art exhibits is one of the last things I pictured myself doing in life, but it was fairly close to Baruch in comparison to the Museum of Natural history and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

We headed to the museum after our library class and were already annoyed once we walked into the building. We initially thought that since we are students, we would be able to go into the museum for free. That was not the case, we ended up having to pay $14 in order to enter even though we were students. The first exhibit that caught my eye was a gallery of naked women. I was unsure on what it symbolized since the rooms were just covered in boobs drawn in different ways. But there was one part of the exhibit that really made sense to me, the Spiral Gallery.

At first, It seemed like just another gallery that made absolutely no sense to me. But once I read the description on why the artist created it, it made sense to me. The artist stated that “the spiral is an attempt at controlling the chaos”. The way I took all of this was that the tightening of the spiral speaks to an emotional point of view in humans in that it expresses all the negative emotions such as tension or fear. In the exhibit itself, it appears that there is a human in the spirals showing that they are trapped and can not get out. So when the spiral loosens, It expresses the positive emotions as the human is now released and free. It could possibly express emotions such as giving trust and positive energy.

All in all it is not something I will be doing in my own free time, but it was definitely a learning experience for me. The work artists are able to create to express the way in which we feel is in a way extraordinary and something that really makes this museum unique.