Saturday, May 15, 2010

I decided to get up early, have a shower and headed off on a walk around the city, I walked around looking for a cambios to change some US dollars but had no such luck, I found one but the rate they were offering was really bad so I held back. I went to the museum of modern art and it I thought that it was actually really cool, for a start I didn't have to pay, maybe I was lucky I don't know, all I know is that it shouldn't be free but I didn't have to pay. On the first floor were some cool etchings by Goya, some looked amazing if not a little creepy, cherubs with adult faces and lots of people with devil faces. The gallery was full of college kids and school kids, some making sketches, the rest just being noisy and getting in the way. The next level up had some sculptures, one of them stood out to me, it was by Carlos Cruz Diez and was of different coloured vertical stripes, some at slight angles with a mirror between, when you moved along it, the colours changed to almost a spectrum out of only three initial colours, I thought it was really clever and tried to take a photo and a film but got told off by the security guard. The rest wasn't that great, some really crap Botero paintings, there were Botero paintings all over Colombia.

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