Category: Art
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On Mark Rothko and Kol Nidre
The first time I saw a Mark Rothko painting in person I was 20 and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. I wasn’t unfamiliar with him as an artist. I’d been lucky enough to study Abstract Expressionism in both high school and college (the latter being the organizer of said trip to…
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A New Speed
I’ve forgotten how to go to museums — or at least, I’m not good at it anymore. It’s not that I don’t enjoy it, but now that I go to one five days a week for work, I don’t excel at it the way I used to, which makes museum-going as a social activity difficult.…
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Scout’s Must-See Artworks in NYC
I spend a lot of time in museums ( it helps that I work in two of NYC’s largest). I also have a degree in art history. And thus I feel somewhat qualified to advise you, gentle reader, on what to see in this intimidating city of art. There’s practically a museum on every corner,…
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A New Colossus: The Tenement Museum
The best thing about working in a museum is, of course, working around world-class art and important pieces of history. But the second best thing about working in a museum is that you get into other museums for free. An acknowledgment of our shared love of learning and our measly non-profit paychecks, this reciprocal admissions…
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Gilded City
There’s a corner of the American Wing at the museum where I work that has always been my favorite. It’s the one that highlights John Sloan, William Glackens, George Bellows, George Luks, and the rest of the artists known as The Ashcan School. The corner in question features scenes of city life — crowded thoroughfares…
Zelda & Scout 