Calder with Reflections

I spent the last couple of hours this afternoon at  MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art in New York, after we'd driven down in the morning. On the way to my main objective I passed this scene: A 1939 work by Alexander Calder, Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, commissioned by the museum "for the stairwell" (doubtless not this one, since MoMA has been renovated umpteen times in the 79 years since then :)

My main goal was a marvelous, sprawling exhibition of the life's work of Stephen Shore (b.1947), a major American photographer (see his site for links to his work).  The extra gives a glimpse of a unique gallery in the show: hanging from the ceiling are over a dozen short books, each with ten or so images on a specific theme (e.g. Central Park, specific trees, the Mona Lisa in Paris). Shore was showing a few friends through the show, and I spoke with him briefly--what a pleasure and honor :)

Posted next afternoon at the Met--the internet hot spot we have in our apartment no longer functions :(