Birthday Part 2 - Warhol!

On the Sunday before my birthday Rich and I were planning to go to the zoo and hang out for the day, unfortunately my birthday is right in the middle of winter and so it rained and rained and rained pretty much ALL day. So we decided to choose our "Plan B" and head to Te Papa and see the Andy Warhol Exhibition.

Rich and I are pretty lucky as this is the second time we have gotten to see an exhibition of Andy Warhol's work - the first time was when we were living in Seoul. The exhibition in Seoul was pretty great, although it was SO packed you had to fight to get to the front to even see the works. Fortunately for us, Wellington's population is MUCH less than that of Seoul. So we could see much more of the work.

We weren't allowed to take photos at the exhibition itself - but you sure knew that there was a Warhol exhibition happening at Te Papa.

I picked up a few fun things at the gift store at the Warhol exhibit - some "pop art" badges and an Andy Warhol card that I've sent to a friend.

Even though it was a freezing cold day, Rich and I decided we should head to the top of Te Papa and take on the view from the roof. It was freezing!

 Here's a could of views from inside Te Papa from the top floor looking down - it always gives me a bit of vertigo!

 I hope you've all had a good start to the week - Rich and I were both able to return to our offices today, which was good. We are luckier than some folks in the city who aren't going to be able to return to their buildings this week due to quake damage.

In the future, everybody will be world famous for 15 minutes

Some time ago we joined the Seoul Art Meetup group but never really got around to attending an event. Then I received an e-mail saying the group was visiting the Seoul Museum of Art to attend the Andy Warhol exhibit that I've been wanting to see so bad - so I figured it was time to head out and meet some new people and see some art!

The exhibition was great, it's a little weird seeing Andy Warhol's work though as it's been imitated so much. But it's fascinating to see his work up close regardless.


It was my first time to a major show at an art gallery in Korea and it was an experience as there were SO MANY people there, it was busy when we got there and it only kept on getting busier and busier. I guess Andy Warhol has more appeal in Korean than I thought he would - which is great.


After the gallery we went and had some dinner with the other people that attended the event - both Koreans and foreigners came along which was really great.


I'd like to finish my post with my favourite Andy Warhol quote - about consumerism and Coca Cola. They used this quote in the exhibition we went to see as well but somewhere along the line it changed from English to Konglish - but that's life in Korea!


What's great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good.