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Imagine trying to become a master painter in 1872 in New York and there's no high resolution images on google to study but there is a collection of European paintings at The Met so you go there to look at them and they actually let you set up an easel and make a copy for you to take back to your studio. This is how artists have been learning for centuries, by looking at art, painting stroke for stroke. This program is still running at The Met and you can apply! Itās so special, you enter through the education wing with your materials and tell the security guards that youāre in āThe Copyist Program,ā thereās a special room you store your work in progress. You have a 4ā x 4ā canvas tarp that you lay on the ground and for 4 hours once a week for 8 weeks thatās your special little island to work from. Then thereās the special thrill of carrying a wet painting through the museum halls. Very sacred, very special!Ā
Sep 19, 2024
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How lucky was I to see a new echo come to life! (I visited on a Monday at 2 pm and came across multiple artists)
Mar 11, 2025
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If you just go for 40ish minutes, you get the perfect dose of āinspo-intelā without overdoing it. So many times Iāve felt inspired but then killed it by going for too long because in the end you really can only absorb so much. If you make the visit shorter, you have time to actually go to studio directly after and āwork it outā with your enlightened eyeballs. Plus when you treat it like a more frequent activity you start to have a more intimate relationship with the paintings on view. Itās the closest thing to actually owning a masterpiece.Ā
Nov 5, 2023
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The commission Iāve been grinding this month has mostly been done in coffee shops (I will share when I can pi.fyi, Iām very excited about it) but then I remembered I have shitty coffee at home that works fine and that I have a great art museum close by. When itās nice out Iāve got giant iron sculptures surrounding me. If itās not Iām making art next to the brain children of Albers and Richters and Dutch masters I canāt be bothered to memorize the names of. As inspiring as bad first dates and banal gossip is to me (not sarcasm, it fuels me) the great art and serene atmosphere is even more inspiring. Highly recommend
Feb 26, 2025
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My grandmaās word for word response when I asked her if she had any advice for living a long life. She lived to be 99 years old. Rest in Paradise Donna.
Dec 8, 2024
I am obsessed with this Art Deco Extraordinaire, a Polish-born painter whose glamorous figurative compositions came to life in 1920s-30s Paris. Influenced by Cubism and Neoclassicism, her worksāespecially her portraits of womenāblend beauty, strength, modernity, and a timeless cosmopolitan flair. After leaving Paris, she continued her career in New York, Hollywood, and Mexico. Now on view is her first American retrospective at the de Young Museum in San Francisco until February 9th.
Jan 5, 2025
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So fucking epic.
Nov 14, 2024