I love going to New York City to see the great Art museums like The Metropolitan, The Whitney, The Guggenheim and The Museum of Modern Art.
Unfortunately I don't often have the time or money to get there. The MoMa's ticket prices are no joke, but luckily the NYTimes.com photo gallery, , lets me see a bit of what I am missing. Here is the gallery.
I hadn't heard of Miró before, but he apparently assaulted art. The images of his work are varied, being unfamiliar with his work, it is hard to know if it is representational of it as a whole.
I appreciate the chance to become more familiar with what is currently in the New York City museums. Not as good as the real thing, but still nice. I didn't realize until I was searching for a photo gallery that the NYTimes even offered pictures of current exhibitions.
I found a nice photo gallery on NYTimes.com entitled Grappling with Instability. The photos center around the conflict happening in Congo between rebel forces and the government.
I thought this was a powerful gallery because the images from Congo are ones that I rarely get the chance to see. I think photo galleries or audio sideshows in general are really essential for many readers to connect emotionally with an event.
Since August, the forces of Laurent Nkunda, the rebel general, have been battling Congolese government troops. Fighting climaxed last week, with rebel forces poised to seize Goma, the strategic city in eastern Congo. Congolese fled areas of fighting.
The captions are short and sweet, allowing a taste of the story, but is more fulfilling visually and emotionally than reading a large article about the same subject.
I've been here for about 45 minutes and none of them have updated so far but they are all focusing on the story of the $700 billion dollar bailout not passing.
Huff focuses more on it being a failure on President Bush and nominee McCain's part.
I'll check back in a few more hours.
EDIT: 8:30 pm. NYtimes and HuffPost both changed their pictures but keep the same story/headline. Drudgereport has stayed the same.
9/30/08
EDIT: 12:47 am. Drudge Report hasn't changed - headline says "DOWN IN FLAMES." Huffpost now says "THE BUSH ECONOMY - Dow Jones lower today than first day of Bush's presidency." NYtimes has same headline, has changed their picture to a graphic of the stock market at close.
EDIT: 10:50 am - Drudge Report's healdine reads "CALM RETURNS" (to the market.) NYtimes says "BUSH URGES CONGRESS TO PASS BAILOUT" (after it was rejected yesterday, HuffPost says "MCCAIN AT 'POLIITICAL END' AFTER BAILOUT FAILURE."
Very interesting they all made the same story yesterday but now each of the aftermath stories are taking new directions. Huff is concentrating on it hurting McCain's image. NYtimes seems sort of hopeful and non blaming. Drudge seems to think it's all fine and dandy.
While looking online about the founder of Drudge I found some claims that he might be sort of right leaning. Within the headlines I can see NYtimes tries to be unbiased, Huff is definitely left and Drudge does seem to support the right more.
Here's Mass State Rep Barney Frank speaking on the rejection of the bailout.
EDIT: 2:20 pm NYtimes is the only one who changed their top story. They are now saying senate leaders and pledging to work toward a quick bailout plan.
