Manhattan

Today I had my first longer stay in Manhattan. Leaving the subway at 14th street, I started my walk along 5th avenue downtown to the Washington Square Park. It is a nice small park in Greenwich Village. When I arrived there in park's center at the fountain the sun had been begun to shine lovely and I was highly delighted about the unexpected warmth and brightness. That was a turning point at this day. Moreover I met four street musicians, who did a great jazz jam session there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1UTzpzgyIc

Direct next to Washington Square Park is the library of the NYU with access only for NYU students. However, I had a short view onto the entrance hall. The floor with classic shiny black and white tiles, marmor walls and long metallic stairs in front of a huge wall of big windows make the hall noble and unique. Compared to that the Grimm Center's entrance area is simple and boring. Maybe this comparison is not fair. Indeed, the hall's imposingness display the exclusiveness and prestigeousness which is characterstic for NYU's self-conception. However, I wasn't possible to catch the hall with a shot. The hall is  just too big.

In the New Museum of Modern Art at Bowery I visited the exhibition "ostalgy". Presenting different artworks like videos, photos, collages and sculptures of nearly 50 artists, the exhibition give various insights about how art was related to to the socialistic policital regime and  the ways it expressed the people's life in the Sowjet Union. The paintings of Sergey Zarva made a lot of impression to me. Combining Realism and Expressionism, he presents deformed faces with mutant obscureness, which display people's former self beyond surface purity and order.

Walking along Bowery downtown  I moved on to Chinatown. Being tired of the exhibition, I bought some food, chilled down at a playing field somewhere in Chinatown and took a nap. On my way to the subway station East Broadway, I suddenly realized that the East River still have been just a short track away. So I went to the riverside and made a nice shots of the Manhattan Bridge and Manhattans Skyline with Brooklyn Bridge...

New York is a really huge enjoyment for the eyes. Where ever you look you see something stunning and exciting!