NaBloPoMo Day 19: Man Ray at the Met

My Met membership expired. I could certainly have renewed online but I never renew museum memberships online. I membership-max. This means that when my memberships expire, I let 'em be expired until the next time I go to the museum. Then I renew at the membership desk. Why pay for a month or three months of zero museum visits? Might as well just start the new year of membership at the most optimal moment, ie when I need a museum membership because I am physically at the museum entrance looking to get in.

The only time this calculous changes is if you get a discount for auto-renewals and/or I'm guilted into it. A patron of the arts such as myself is susceptible to such mind games.

Anyway, I had an appointment on the upper east side the other day and wound up literally walking by the Met on my way back. So I decided to pop in to see this Man Ray exhibit I kept hearing everyone talking about. Which meant I had to renew my membership. Which I did. It was really not at all exciting.

I know nothing about Man Ray. And still kind of don't because I had very limited time and I just thought I'd walk through to get the vibe of the show, fully intending to come back with Bruce or Tom and take it in more slowly.

I guess Man Ray did a bunch with photographic techniques.

Man Ray was born in 1890 and died in 1976. He did a lot of work in the 1930s... I had always thought he was more of a 60's surreal kind of guy so call my quick tour a learning moment. 

I popped out of the other side of the exhibit and was extremely happy that the new Rockefeller wing was open because this made it easy to leave the museum. For all the years they had this wing under construction, to exit the Met from that side you had to go the whole way through the medieval area and back through great hall.  I mean, i guess you could have gone up to the second floor and come across and then down but still. You get my point.