MoMA

For my last day in New York for a while (I fly out tomorrow for California, then on to China, returning August 11th) I went to MoMA to see the Adrian Piper exhibition. It's huge, and well worth the time it takes to engage it. Piper's a philosopher as well as an artist and each piece is a think piece, from early conceptual pieces like Nine-Part Floating Square (1967), above (can you see the pencil lines on the wall between the mounted squares, completing the grid?), to incisive work in many media engaging the perception and construction of identity, especially racial constructions. When I got out, a few hours later, the heat wave promising to engulf most of the country this weekend had started, so I basked in the spray of this fountain on Ave of the Americas.