Photo: Stedelijk Museum
It's a contemporary art museum that is currently under construction, and they have a temporary exhibit by Centraal Station (trains/trams). We went to see the Andy Warhol exhibit.
Photo: Warhol flyer
It consisted of screens of his movies, film screen tests, and tv shows. There was also exhibits of pictures, his famous Campbell's Soup Can photograph, and the Marilyn Monroe pictures. Let's just say, Derek and I both agreed that he's weird! And we do not get "contemporary art". The coolest part was a room of "silver clouds" which were these big helium filled balloons that you can play with. Not really sure what the relevance of it was. Then we decided to check out some of the non-Warhol exhibits. We open one door into a small room with a little statue icon sitting in the middle watching a tv. Freaky!! Should've realized we were in over our heads. That room was not to be messed with, so instead we found another area with a random assortment of "art". For example, one was a movie screen of a woman running, called 'Pursuit'. The camera focuses on different parts of her, but she just keeps on running. Nothing else happens. When we walked back by it awhile later, it was a man running. Can you explain this? After wandering through here and realizing we had no idea what the point of any of it meant, we decide to leave. Except here all of a sudden we see that there are no people around. As we try to leave, the only way we're getting out of hallways and rooms is because the doors aren't actually locked, so Derek can pry them open, even though there's no handles. We finally go through a dark hallway lit with red lights and Warhol posters, into the locked up gift shop!
Photo: Can you tell we're freaked out?
Yeah, the museum totally locked us in their weird freaky art museum! There was no way I was walking back through that exhibit to find another exit- way too creepy! Especially because you know that statue watching tv would come alive! When a person walked by, we banged on the door, and security finally let us out. After the fact, a pretty funny experience. During, kind of nerve-wracking. There's no way we would've lasted the night in there. It was weird, a majority of the exhibits used electricity, whether a video camera recording a still photo (yeah, seriously, don't get it) or a tv screen showing a man washing his hands continuously on a loop (again- wth?)
We followed this up with a night at Werck- casual dance club with 80's dance remixes. Quite fun!
Photo: Us at Werck!!
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