BEAT PIECE

Don’t cheap out and go to the Museum of Modern Art on the Free Friday’s. I did it last time and it was like hell – hoards of fat and clueless tourists dawdling aimlessly through galleries, talking loudly on mobiles, congregating en masse to take photos in front of an artwork they remember seeing once in a high school art book so that they can share it on Facebook and pretend to not look entirely self obsessed, because guys, it’s like, totally “culture”.

 

My last visit to the MOMA was like, totally more dignified.

 

The gallery is home to some pieces by a few of my all time favourite artists, including Egon Schiele, Mark Rothko and Alice Neel. I love the journey through the gallery, following the birth and evolution of modern art and it’s bliss still being surprised at how you can always find something new, passionate and electric in a piece of art that you might have seen a thousand times before (albiet on a computer screen or uni textbook).

 

We were lucky enough to catch the Yoko Ono exhibit this time around and that woman and her whimsical and intriguing ocean child of a mind never ceases to amaze me.

 

Listen to heart beat. Just do it.

NEW YORK CITY

Thanks to the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, I’ve just gotten back from a one month stay in the city that never sleeps! I was undertaking a performing arts mentorship with Horse TRADE Theatre Company, on the Lower East Side, and had an absolute ball! The city is utterly electric – throbbing with sound and colour and lights, and I was lucky enough to check out a handful of Broadway shows, heaps of live bands, and Billy Joel live at Madison Square Garden! An incredible experience, and one that I won’t soon forget.