Museum Trip

Well.....where do i start? The trip to the new museum in New York was quite an expensive adventure. Took the train to NYC Penn Station, walked like ten blocks in the rain, took the subway and wined up walking some more. When I arrived at the block where the museum was located, I was surprise to see this silver like structure building with rainbow text that read "hell yeah". I thought to myself, is this the new museum? Sure enough it was. Walking in the museum it looked very sophisticated and people friendly. The room was big and white, there were chairs and like a mini cafe in the ground floor so it was nice scene. I was a little mad that I had to pay 8 dollars being that the fact that I already spent money on the train and subway, but I mean it is for art so its worth it.

One piece that stood out to me was in David Goldblatt's Intersections Intersects: Photography exhibit. I don't really remember the name of the piece, but there was a short description of the piece that read, " A non-white family who were illgeal residents of Hillbrow Johanneburg...in bed on a sunday morning August 1978".The photograph that I seen was of a family that was indeed like the decription said a non-white, who were all laying in bed. The mother, the father, the son in the middle and the baby on the side by the mother. Both the mother and the father were reading the newspaper in bed as the son is in the middle of the parents wondering what thery were reading. What made this picture interesting to me is that on the side by the mother was the baby in a basket on top of the dresser, and on the side of the father side was just a radio. Now to some people this probably means nothing but to me if I was to interpret this photogaph I would say that it gave the feeling of gender roles. Having the baby on the mother's side displayed the mom as being the caretaking, nauturer, and stay at home housewife. Having the radio on the side of the father displayed him as being one with socitey and having interaction with it as far as listening to the news, sports, or whatever it was he was listening to. It almost as if the the mom had this connection of staying home and being a mother with the baby by her side and the son in the middle of the bed, as the father had this connection with society and the outside world. Maybe the father was looking for a job which is why he as listening to radio and reading the newspaper and the mother was probably helping him find a job too, who knows. Or maybe he was just listening to the news or sports, but either way it gave the father the sense of being aware of the outside world with the radio by his side.