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I do not like to give bad reviews. I usually do not do this, but I could not, due to my experience, do any less than give my honest opinion.
In addition, I have a confession; I guess I don't understand art as well as I thought.
I had watched the building of the MOCA with great interest, as it was just up the road from my apartment, and was curious as to what grand mysteries this shining, metallic black obelisk would reveal.
I got a chance to go check it out the other day during the semi-aborted EucFest that was supposed be held to showcase the new business and attractions of a renovated University Circle. It was moved inside the MOCA due to getting rained out, and I got in and I wandered...and was surprised.
Firstly, there are, at this point, only two small gallery spaces, spaces that would fit in and a tiny section of the current Cleveland Museum of Art with, I daresay, room to spare and then some.
The displays were interesting at first, but the vast amounts of empty wall space, and the evidence that it appears that the building is dedicated more to its investors than to the concepts of modern art, really didn't work for me. They do have a nice, rather mod gift shop, full of trinketry and somewhat pricey items, but that was it for anything of an artistic nature.
Also--and this is just my personal bias--I found some of the displays a bit pretentious. One such display was an item created inside the building, according one of the guides, and it was a wooden framework, painted white, slathered in pink and black paint and broken crockery. In an adjacent room was...a video...of the artist...in the process of covering the framework in said paint...and stomping on crockery. Another section had multiple videos of that same artist in the process of her artistic endeavor. In one, she was encased in a box made of drywall, and was kicking her way out. In another, she was posing in front of a canvas...and getting hit by what appeared to be fruit whilst a powerful fan was blowing.
I get it...and yet I don't.
Yeah...I know art is self-expression, but this whole display, from the first floor to the top, did not impress me, nor my wife. Again, I guess I'll have to limit my artistic appreciation to the old Cleveland Museum, where I got my first, and favorite, taste of the art world. I guess I shall be forever boring...
BTW, one other item. Parking.
I heard through a source that when the MOCA was created, they forgot something; to build a parking lot. University Circle has been seeing a dwindling amount of feasible decent parking all throughout the area, but when the built the MOCA, I had heard that they asked the folks who own many of the buildings in the area, were approached AFTER the MOCA was built they asked something to the effect of "where do we park our patrons?"
I believe the answer, to paraphrase, was "anywhere you can."
So, lack of displays, lack of effective parking, not really impressive...
Yeah, and at 8 bucks to get in, I'd say this...go to the Cleveland Museum of Art, you'll get more of your money's worth.
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