Taking a Breather During the Holiday Madness
Sneaking off to see Monet in Venice at the Brooklyn Museum is the best gift I've given myself this year
Hello, Gorgeous!
Earlier this year I posted about a new habit I’d hoped to get into more regularly, something I called Art Bathing. The idea resonated with many of you.
Taking an art break before the holiday chaos
Despite my best intentions though, I haven’t been indulging in as many museum visits as originally intended.
Last month we went to see Monet and Venice at the Brooklyn Museum for my mom’s birthday. The show is a big deal, since it’s the first major exhibition in over a century dedicated to Claude Monet’s Venetian Cityscapes. Drinking in all that beauty — and soaking up the fascinating and poignant backstory — allowed my chaotic world to shrink into the rear view mirror for a few hours.
“Venice… no…I will not go to Venice.”
~Claude Monet
Monet in Venice
By the time Claude Monet reached 68, he was cranky and somewhat uninspired. In the fall of 1908, his wife Alice dragged him (practically kicking and screaming) from his gardens in Giverny to Palazzo Barbaro in Venice, for his only v…
