The new MOMA in New York

What do I think of the newly renovated and expanded Museum of Modern Art? I want to say I like it. I want to be all hip and "in the know" and talk about Yoshio Taniguchi's bold use of positive and negative space creates... but who am I kidding?

I grew up with the old place, and honestly, I just can't warm to the new space yet. Maybe I will in time -- I've only been there once after all. But as much as it was like greeting old friends to go up to the Brancusis and Chagalls and chuckle at the Duchamp again, I felt it wasn't a place I could happily wander away for hours as I used to. I think it reminded me too much of San Francisco's MOMA, which I often think of (institutionally) as a very arch and fussy cat.

One thing rather well done now is the arrangment of artworks more thematically than rigidly by artist or genre. I have much more of a fluid sense of interconnection now.

And don't get me wrong -- I'll be back there again, although at those admission prices -- $20 for adults-- I'll be asking my Dad to take me in on his membership card all the time.