Pelham Bay Park - Orchard Beach

Visited with my old college buddy and his family. The forecast was for rain, but it just turned out to be cloudy rather than rainy. We took a walk around Orchard Beach. It is before the summer rush, so it was nice and quiet.
It was good to be outside, reminds me I should get back into hiking again.

Pelham Bay Park - Orchard Beach
Where Urban and Untamed Still Coexist

Guggenheim Museum - I Want to Believe

Went with a friend to visited the Guggenheim Museum, to see the Cai Guo-Qiang, I Want to Believe exhibit.

A few shots of his Inopportune: Stage One exhibit before security started to jump all over me about photography being prohibited. It looked to me, like the days of prohibition considering every other person there seemed to have a camera in their hands and there was no sign indicating the restriction until you reached the ticket counter inside, after wasting the time waiting on the line from around the block outside.
The shots are blurry being shot hand held in low light.

Complaint out of the way, the exhibits using gunpowder were interesting, using a tool of deconstruction for construction. Some of the loftier goals of his Extraterrestrials project were interesting like the concept of a unified social structure without borders or boundaries, others I will probably never understand as I was rushed a bit since they were closing.
The scale of his works are impressive and if you have the time for contemplation, check it out.

Guggenheim Museum

Philadelphia Museum of Art - Frida Kahlo

Took a road trip with a few friends, to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to see the Frida Kahlo exhibit.

Although photography was prohibited of the Frida Kahlo exhibit, I took the opportunity to get some non related shots in.

Frida's use of painting as a tool of expression for the tragedies in her life, and as a method of trying to come to to terms with her beliefs and that of her environment is disturbingly honest, insightful and powerful.

One can only sympathize and hope she gained a form of transcendence from her angst, through her work, while she was among us.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Reading Terminal Market