To continue with the art overload that I saw last weekend, I move on to another show that is taking place at the MET right now. Another show that continues with the "world is fucked" theme. Titled New Orleans after the Flood, the show is made up of photographs by Robert Polidori, an excellent photojournalist who traveled to New Orleans during the clean up.
The show is incredible. The photos are stark, powerful, mesmerizing, and horrifying. Each one is an emotional rollercoaster. You first feel awe-struck in their power, then incredibly depressed and sad, and then you feel like lashing out and starting a revolution to remove the idiots running this country. I tended to feel anger, per typical. However, they are also beautiful in detail and color.
One photo that stood out to me (pictured above) is actually one of the first photos you see because it is in the entryway to the show. The image is pretty much how I imagine the day after the end of the world to look like. No terrorists running amok in celebration. No people. No billowing smoke or fire. Just absolute destruction and desolation. The sky in the image is fantasticaly beautiful, though less so in the shit photo they put online. A bright hue of blue and clouds sits atop the incredibly polluted body of water with piles of trash and debris so high you can barely see anything else. The image is remarkable.
I would definitely recommend seeing the show if you are heading to the MET to see the Vollard show, but I probably wouldn't make a special trip to see it. So check off both from your Fall calender of things to do.
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