Summer 2008 Day Six: Museum Mile Festival

I don't know that I would actually CALL the MMF a "Festival." It's kind of on the dull end of the Festival spectrum...alongside "Lecture Series" and "Book Club" but it was a cute way to spend the evening. What's actually fantastic about it is that admission to the museums along Museum Mile becomes free at 6PM. The Met, the Guggenheim, et al...Free. I had no plans whatsoever to visit any museum other than the Met, but it was nice to know I could have.

The reason for my visit to the Met was an exhibit I'd heard about a few weeks ago and was actually really excited about it. It's called Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy. I was hoping that this, too, would live up to the hype. Unfortunately....not really. It was definitely interesting, but an exhibit without Shalom Man is simply...lacking! It was actually fairly dull on its own, but very pretty to look at. This isn't MY video but it pretty much captures the experience though, perhaps, a little faster than I went.



So, yes, it was over before I knew it, and I headed out through another gallery. The Met seems much harder to navigate than AMNH. Perhaps because one wing of modern art has the potential to look just like the next and, if you're not paying attention, Greek and Roman sculpture can look identical.

Once I finally made it out of the Met, I headed uptown along 5th Avenue which had been so wonderfully cut off from traffic. There were kids playing in the streets, drawing on the street with chalk, people dancing, clowns, etc. etc. It was kind of fantastic, but not as fantastic as your everyday street fair. All in all, it was not a complete failure, but once I got to 97th I hopped on the crosstown so I could catch the 2 lest I be stranded along Lexington waiting for a rogue 5 train.