Cool Cat on a Hot Met Roof

Frank Stella on the Roof is currently on display at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden located atop New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and will remain there until October 28, 2007. You should visit if you can, and here is why:

• The sculptures are a visual treat. Think of a Minimalist black painting that becomes gigantic, twists its own canvas into fantastic 3-D shapes, and then sprouts a stylish exoskeleton with which to support itself.
  (See a photo gallery of the installation.)
  
  
• Frank Stella is cool. Seriously cool. I love artists that flatly refuse to stop growing and exploring. There aren't too many (who come readily to mind) that decided to take up sculpture later in life rather than sooner, but Frank Stella is a bona-fide horizon stretcher.
  
  
• The view from the roof of The Met is equal opportunity awesomeness. Just think: for the price of suggested Museum admission you, too, can gaze across Central Park as do the owners of some of the most expensive real estate in the known universe. Plus this particular view comes equipped with fine Fine Art.
  
  
• "Roof service" (consisting of tasty sandwiches and ice cold bevs) is available from 10 AM until closing. We are talking high class picnic, here.
  
  
• No worries if it rains! Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture is concurrently on display, downstairs, until July 29. And, of course, the entire rest of the Met's displayed contents await you indoors as well.

What are you waiting for? Go! Enjoy!

Image credit:

Frank Stella (American, b. 1936)
(Front) memantra, 2005
(Back) adjoeman, 2004
Lent by the artist
Photograph: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/
Anna Marie Kellen