Guggenheim Museum - New York

In New York for the weekend visiting friends, I got my museum fix with a quick trip to the Guggenheim http://www.guggenheim.org/.

 Much of the museum was closed because they were between exhibitions but they had small exhibit dedicated to Paris and the Avant Garde that Sam and I could easily fit in between baby Theo's naps.  The exhibit featured about 30 pieces coming out of the Avant Garde movement in the early 20th century in Paris.  The show began with analytic cubist pieces by Picasso and Braque, but moved on to more colorful pieces that came later in the movement.  The pieces selected were, for me, a nice mix of the familiar and beloved (Miro and Calder) and lesser known artists (Albert Gleizes).   As a bonus, we got to walk off the 3 doughnuts eaten from the Doughnut Plant that morning(http://www.doughnutplant.com/) ...creating a square jelly filled doughnut with jelly all the way may not earn a place in the Guggenheim, but qualifies as its own brand of artistic genius.