NYC-Boston 12-28Dec12 (Day 3)

Still not over the jet lag yet, we left the hotel at about noon again. Decided to take it easy and start the day at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Very cool architectural icon. When I entered, the spiral interior looked so familiar I swear I've seen it in a movie before. Some action-packed scene with shooters shooting across whilst hiding behind the low walls. What movie was that??? Ah wells.

The ongoing exhibition was Picasso Black and White and we loved it. It gave us a chance to see the other side of Picasso and how he developed his style from his early works.

"This comprehensive exhibition focuses in depth on Pablo Picasso’s career-long exploration of a black-and-white palette. Surveying his oeuvre from 1904 to 1971, Picasso Black and White comprises some 110 works, including painting as well as sculpture and several works on paper." -taken from guggenheim website

"Picasso Black and White is the first exhibition to explore the remarkable use of black and white throughout the Spanish artist’s prolific career. Claiming that color weakens, Pablo Picasso purged it from his work in order to highlight the formal structure and autonomy of form inherent in his art. His repeated minimal palette correlates to his obsessive interest in line and form, drawing, and monochromatic and tonal values, while developing a complex language of pictorial and sculptural signs. Picasso’s palette reveals the development of a unique working process, which he pursued until his death on April 8, 1973, in Mougins, France." - taken from exhibition website

Thereafter, we took a bus down to Madison Avenue and Fifth Avenue area. Randomly popped into a Japanese restaurant for a hearty meal (new york food just doesn't fail us). At one point we reached the Rockafeller center and spotted its famous lighted angel decorations and a christmas tree. I was too busy taking photos to realize a crowd growing and suddenly we were stuck. Turned around and saw everyone waiting eagerly for the Saks animated window displays! It lasted a minute or two but okay quite a cute thing to chance upon. We then quickly escaped the crazy human traffic.

Tired, we cabbed (ny taxi is actually not THAT expensive) to Lincoln Center and hung out at a nearby cafe before our War Horse show. The play caught me by surprise and I never knew a (horse) puppet could look so real. Something different so I'd say go catch it.

Since we stayed near Times Square, we decided to take a detour from the train station and pack some deep-fried supper from Bubba Gump. Plus some shopping at Hard Rock. What a long day :)