- eat a lot of Italian food (like way too much Italian food)
- Guggenheim museum
Not that this makes it a bad visit, but this will probably be a shorter post. Because while the Guggenheim is super awesome from the outside…
…and includes a crazy spider sculpture that the artist made to represent her mother (in a good way, like how they keep mosquitos from spreading disease and are both strong and fragile at the same time), the art inside the museum is a little underwhelming.
There were a few things I really liked, like the Andy Warhol print of Marilyn Monroe's face, or a digital installation that was originally put in for a fundraiser for AIDS relief. The digital installation scrolls messages in English and Spanish on the front side in red, and in Basque (because we are in Basque country, after all) on the back in blue. It's all short phrases that are basically about being human–big themes like love and loss. It's just really interesting to read them, because they get strung together like a story.
And the art inside is not bad, but after visiting the Museo del Prado, Reina Sofia, and the Vatican Museum… It's just not quite up to snuff. Very interesting art though, there is no denying that. There was a pillow shaped like a piece of pie, or some incredibly crazy large pieces of metal that were made into huge spirals that you could explore. Just unconventional stuff, which was definitely interesting and we spent a while looking at it all.
Oh yeah, and there's a puppy and a giant stack of marbles outside the museum too. Fancy art. And at the top of the hour, a "fog sculpture" takes place, something installed by a Japanese artist who's been working with fog for something like 30 years… I'll just leave you all with that tidbit.
