Sunday in the Park (And The Guggenheim Museum) | BEDA Day 11

Central Park Chess Pavilion

Guggenheim New York

How to Work Better

A few weeks ago my parents came to New York to visit family and celebrate my mom’s birthday. Minor travel issues aside, it was nice to spend some time with them and do the fancy things I only get to do when they’re in town. It was finally starting to feel a little bit like spring, so we decided to spend Sunday meandering through Central Park and the Guggenheim Museum.

I feel like I post a lot of pictures of Central Park on here, but it really is one of my favorite places in the city. It really is an oasis in an often-stifling city, and somewhere I feel like I can actually breathe. Everything was so perfectly lit in the mid-winter sun that I had to get a few photos. Plus, if I manage to capture the park in every season maybe I’ll turn it into a coffee table book of amateur photos that no one will buy. 

We made our way up to 88th Street, which was quite a feat after our brunch at The Plaza Food Hall. I actually hadn't been to the Guggenheim before, and I was happy to cross it off my New York bucket list. The museum, designed by legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright, is a work of art on it's own and features art from the mid 19th century to today.

The main exhibit on view this spring is Peter Fischli and David Weiss's "How To Work Better," a collection of multi-media works on how we perceive daily life. Honestly, I didn't get a lot of it as I'm terribly uneducated in the visual art world, but I appreciate the work. There were these little sculptures of women commuting to work that I found particularly striking and had to capture. I think we only made it through about half the museum, so I will definitely be back soon to tackle the rest of the gallery.