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Monet and Venice at Brooklyn Museum

Lauren Panepinto

Happy Christmas, Solstice, Hanukah, Kwanza, or whatever other holiday you may celebrate. In my family, there's a run of family birthdays between the first week of November straight through Nov & Dec until my mother's birthday on December 18th. And most years I take the day off work and we go to a museum together. This year, we went to see the Monet and Venice show currently at the Brooklyn Museum. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1JNQTZCx30[/embed] Now, I respect…

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INSPIRATION vs PERSPIRATION

Greg Ruth

November 20, 2025 - As artists we always in making our work, dance with two partners, and we are often held to the same regard as most pop cultural ideas of art making, the artist pondering some vital landscape... the artist receiving like a ball of light the revelation of some new piece... When in fact more than 80% of the total experience of making art is sweat and grit and work. It speaks well of the distilled and potent superpowers that inspiration possesses that it would despite its marginal affect, occupy such a lofty and present sphere, but an idea with out tangible agency is a carpenter without a hammer. Inspiration: the Muse or the lightening strike... (or whatever you want too call it), hat out of no where blossoming of thought and invention whether it s a…

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