One of my favorite things to do is to go into the PS1, James Turrell installation Meeting, a square room with a rectangular opening cut into the ceiling. The images produced in that square never bore me. And it increases respect and awe of the universe.

So I was very excited to go to the Guggenheim to see the exhibit there. And the rotunda installions is great. A few years ago I purchased a string of holiday lights that were 2" balls that changed color and the Fort Place Deli on S.I. recently renovated their front signage to changing color lights. It is so calming to sit and watch the colors slowly change from pink to orange to yellow to green to blue to purple and then do it again. At the guggenheim the ceiling installation is set with lighting that similarly changes and is a meditative experience.

The museum also has several light installions on the second floor, one that definitely plays with your vision. Are you looking at light going into the wall or is it a glowing 3D cube?

To see the installation on the fifth floor required a wait of over an hour for us. As we approached the entrance a man exiting the installation told us that we would be better to leave now and not bother waiting any longer. We laughed at him, of course he could not be an appreciator of Turrell's minimal creations like we were, and so would not understand. But the room was an let down. A grey rectangle on the wall, a few lights projecting onto the side walls, the back wall was the best with a glow on the exit.

I went to MoMA last week to see the Rain Room and was told there was a six hour wait, but could see it from the side and get in within a few minutes. Going the quick route made me happy I did not do the long wait.

So the question is after you wait over an hour for entrance to an art installation, what should you be rewarded with? How big does the prize have to be?