Today, I went to the Guggenheim Museum in New York. It was a beautiful day, one of the first truly hot of the year, and a great day to see a museum so full of windows. As it is the 50th anniversary of the Guggenheim's opening, a huge Frank Lloyd Wright retrospective was the main exhibit at the museum. The building, designed by Wright, was breathtaking. Based on circles and spirals, it brought its viewers up to the top, and then back down, with exhibition rooms at every turn in the spiral. I loved the light and airy feeling the building evoked, and the unique layout to a museum; most museums tend to be boxy.
I was surprised about the other works of art in the Guggenheim; I didn't expect a Kandinsky gallery or a Monet picture (a wonderful depiction of the Palazzo Ducale in Venice) to be in there.
This trip, at the very least, made me much more appeciative of the space around me, and how gifted architects can truly be.
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