On the day to day, my taste tends to skew towards the “lowbrow”. Horror movies, comic books, 4chan, and the like. But I’ll admit it: I still fucks with museums sometimes. Especially when I stumble upon an exhibit that isn’t too high-fallutin’ for us common folk, some delicious black & white milkshake of culture.

Right now at the Museum of Arts and Design in Columbus Circle, there’s a really dope exhibit called Think Again: New Latin American Jewelry. Like how I use words like “dope” to spice up a post about museums? It first caught my eye when I was on their website and saw the above photo of the kid and the frosty ‘nana. I mean, doesn’t that look like a museum you wanna kick it at?

Not gonna lie, the rest of the collection was not as bling-oriented as I thought it was going to be. Luckily it was way more interesting than that probably would have been. I mean, there’s only so many socially-conscious takes on Jacob The Jeweler you can take in one sitting. The exhibit was instead filled with all kinds of different jewelry (term definitely used loosely here) that traced a pretty vivid portrait of the current state of Latin America, artistic and otherwise. That’s a brooch made of $100,000 Argentine bills from before their 2001 economic crash. The 2010 Argentine penny stuck on top is now worth more than all of those bills. Who knew jewelry could be so informative?

The exhibit is just small enough to be walked through before you get tired and try to sit on one of the odd looking chairs littered around the museum, which you would then be kicked off of because, yes, they are also part of an exhibit going on there by Phillippe Starck’s protege Patrick Jouin. Basically there’s a bunch of cool stuff going on at the Museum right now, so extricate your tuchus from its carefully honed couch groove and go absorb some culture and whatnot.

- Whole Milk