Social distancing, WFH, and back-to-back video calls can be stressful. Here’s a bit of relief.
Over the years, I’ve really enjoyed working from home. When WFH was just one or two days each week those …
Design
Taking WFH breaks: The Met—100 curators talk about 100 works, 2 minutes at a time.
Before I joined T. Rowe Price as a writer eight years ago, I’d worked as a freelance or contract …
Keeping busy during WFH time: Museum of Modern Art and Louise Lawler offer a coloring book.
Working from home (WFH) is challenging for all of us. Here’s a great resource for you and your children—if you …
Feel the need to get away from current events? Spend 5 hours touring Russia’s iconic Hermitage.
Yesterday, I shared some avenues that you can use to visit museums virtually, while the institutions are officially closed over …
The world’s great museums are closing over coronavirus concerns—Here’s how you can still tour them.
I believe that art museums serve many purposes beyond being repositories for paintings, sculptures, and other works. For me, they’re …
Central Park features 23 statues of historical figures; not one honors a woman. That’s changing.
Actually, there are two figural statues of women in Central Park, but they’re monuments to Mother Goose and Alice of …
Online: NYC’s Museum of Modern Art is digitizing every exhibition since MoMA’s opening in 1929.
Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh was name of the inaugural exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art when it opened …
Video: On restoring Alexander Calder’s mobile, Red Lily Pads (1956), at the Guggenheim.
The Guggenheim’s Nathan Otterson, Senior Conservator, Objects, and Tracey Bashkoff, Director of Collections and Senior Curator, describe the demanding process …
Explainer videos are exceptional or awful. 1950s explainers were films and usually pretty great.
Today, corporations make short explainer videos fast and on the cheap. And, most of them look it. While popular data …
The one about a banana duct-taped to a wall. And, that Cattelan person—crazy, crafty, or clever?
In describing Maurizio Cattelan, The Museum of Modern Art says, “In the grand tradition of Italian comedy that stretches from the …
Joy, Joy, Joy. And, Happy Holidays! Here’s a video visit to the 2019 Christmas Windows in New York City.
From Bergdorf to Bloomingdales and Macy’s to Saks—take a video stroll through Rockefeller Center and down Fifth Avenue. @JamesandKarla bring …
Read a good art book lately? The Getty has over 300 for you to download, read, and keep.
Since the Getty Museum launched its virtual library in 2014, its publications have been downloaded more than 400,000 times. The …
Nibs, barrels, grips, and feeds. Today is National Fountain Pen Day. Here’s a write-on memory.
My broad-nib Montblanc Meisterstück 149 died a few years ago. On a cross-country trip, it was frozen in my luggage …
The non-linear, video chapters of an iconic business are beautifully illustrated in L’Odyssée de Cartier.
Cartier. The Maison. By taking over his master’s workshop, Louis-François Cartier founded Cartier in 1847. Since then, the iconic brand …
Looking for photos that are copyright free—available to use and reuse? Don’t overlook loc.gov.
The Library of Congress (LOC) is a treasure trove of images. And many are available for you to download in …
Cuban-born American artist Carmen Herrera, “I never met a straight line I did not like.”
At age 104. Carmen Herrera says, “I waited for my bus for 94 years.” She’s referring to the saying, “if …
At NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 9 through September 8 — CAMP: Notes on Fashion.
What do John Waters’ movies, Cher’s stage shows, and Dame Edna Everage’s comedy all have in common? Camp. Camp, as …
An early ’70s working trip to Florida introduced me to an engineering marvel—The Polaroid SX-70.
I’d been a 35mm film photographer—one who knew his way around darkrooms—for quite a few years before my first SX-70 …
From our front door to yours: Have a wonderful New Year’s Eve and do epic things in 2019. Cheers
Jacob made our New Year’s wreath this year and it’s all silver, smart, and stunning. I love the sparkly top …
