Kirsten Alexander- MoMA Art Lab and Pollen exhibits

I came across an interactive exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York that looks really cool for both kids and adults. In the lab space you can learn about the ways artists represent the human form. You can work with others on an "exquisite corpse" wall drawing, use everyday materials to create a people-inspired project that you can take home when your'e done, make a giant geometric face on a magnetic wall and create a self-portrait with a new digital app by Microsoft.

I think this exhibit is really interesting because it is interactive. You can view art before going into the space and then learn about the art in a hands-on way.

Wolfgang Laib's Pollen from Hazelnut exhibit will be on view until March 11th. Wolfgang created this work especially for the Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium at the MoMA. The exhibit is a pollen installation and it will be Wolfgang's largest to date (18 x 21 ft). Laib has been collecting the pollen from areas around his home and studio in southern Germany since the mid 1990's. Laib's works are made from one or two natural materials that he collects. He likes using pollen because "pollen is the potential beginning of the life of the plant. It is as simple, as beautiful, and as complex as this. And of course it has so many meanings. I think everybody who lives knows that pollen is important."

I think that this exhibit is unique because it is more than 20 years in the making and it is a 2D installation, when I think of installation I immediately assume that it is 3D.