Kena from Montreal sent us this great article about modern art.

The Ordinary Tourist's Guide to Appreciating Modern Art

I am not a modern art lover, so this article was a good help for me - maybe I will learn to enjoy it more.

Thanks Kena!

I especially like the suggestion of bringing children along. I've never considered that, but it might be very interesting to see what they have to say.

Kena, thank you so much! I really enjoyed that. I can't walk past a gallery without going in, my travelling companion knows this and always gives me time.

This is a great addition to Slow Travel. Thanks again.

Thanks for the feedback! Most of that article was written in my journal as I was visiting the Miro museum in Barcelona on my own last year. I was just overwhelmed by so much enthusiasm at rediscovering an artist I loved as a child that I needed to share it with someone... and that's how the article came to life!

Kena, that is an excellent article. Modern art is such a hurdle for so many people. I have best friends who are totally au courant in demanding music, difficult literature, etc., yet when they see any modern painting other than Norman Rockwell, they turn into cultural neanderthals. There is certainly a bunch of bad new painting out there, but one risks tossing the baby, great artists such as Pollock, Rauschenberg, and Judd, out with the bathwater.
Yrs, Robert

I should send this in to our local paper. The city has the possibility of receiving a donation of a large Keith Haring sculpture and letter writers to the editor are up in arms. It is the usual: my son who is 2 could do that 'art'. ARGH

Great article, Kena.

This past Monday, was my first time in the MoMA in NYC. It was a beautiful space, and I really loved the artwork on the 5th and 6th floors - just blew me away.

Here is the Jackson Pollack that I took a photo of. It was intense!