Colours and Light

The Guggenheim museum by Frank Lloyd Wright

To celebrate my birthday, Marion – in addition to gifting me with a yearlong membership to the MoMA, and a modern art class over several weeks in november – accompanied me to the Guggenheim Museum, where we finally saw James Turrell's installation (more on Marion's post on the subject!) after our very enjoyable failure last week.

Contrary to the trend in most contemporary museums, the Guggenheim still forbids the taking of pictures within the museum proper. While this has not been an issue for photographing the inner hall in the past, in this case, the whole of the inner space was taken by the Aten Reign, and was therefore off limits to cameras. The thing pained me; so much so that I snuck out my phone to take some illicit images of the wonderful play of colours and lights.

Aten Reign installation by James Turrell

A walk back through the park in a splendid autumnal afternoon and now the prospect of a nice evening with friends. I am content…