Think back about …
Art and Art Museums
Some of us are artists, and some are not, but we have all enjoyed art in one form or another in our lives. Think back … have you created art when you were a child or later as an adult? If so, what medium was or is your favorite? If you have just enjoyed art as a spectator, was it in museums, galleries, or some other place? Do you collect art yourself? Share your art and art museums stories forward.Stories on This Week's Writing Prompt
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Betsy Pfau
Before David had to devote his Tuesday and Thursday afternoons to Hebrew School, the Boston MFA offered a free art program [...]
Readers’ Choice

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Suzy
Instead of "thinking back" to my youth, here is a potpourri of some of my favorite museums visited in the last dozen years.

I was missing those illustrated elevator rides. I was regretting that we wouldn’t be able to go to lunch together after the [...]

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Risa Nye
Little Rock, Arkansas is the home of Central High, the Clinton Library—and the only dedicated purse museum in the United [...]
Vincent
At 53, if someone had asked me who Vincent Van Gogh was, I’d have said, “he’s the guy who cut off his ear.” Shortly after my [...]

When our son was a toddler many friends began fleeing Manhattan. They couldn’t imagine raising a child amid all the dirt and [...]

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Marian
I hadn't heard of this syndrome before it happened to me. At first I was surprised, but then later understood why it happened [...]
Art at Harvard?
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Khati Hendry
I always thought I had a knack for drawing. Someone encouraged this when I was twelve, a year when my family was [...]

A museumgoer and an artist, I think a lot about the symbiosis between looker and maker.

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Laurie Levy
My father instilled an appreciation for art in me, filtered through his lens of what constituted good art.

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Betsy Pfau
Since a young child, visiting art museums has always brought me to a place of peace and beauty. I, myself, can’t make [...]

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Betsy Pfau
I took a course on Northern Renaissance painting with Professor Ludovico Borgo in my last semester at Brandeis. For our final [...]

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John Shutkin
Having been an anthropology major (in the bowels of the Peabody Museum in Cambridge) and then -- formerly -- married to the [...]

In the early years of the 20th century a handful of European artists including the Russians Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimar [...]

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John Zussman
Only now does the sheer phallic audacity of that picture make me chuckle.

New Stories on Old Prompts

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Dave Ventre
A switch clicked in my brain. I have no idea why. I looked at Gina and said “I need to do that.”
Prompted By Finding Your Tribe
January 18, 2021
Past Stories You May Have Missed

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gsbate
In the summer of 1981, I went to the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland to hear Peter, Paul, and Mary. They had [...]
July 13, 2017

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Suzy
When I was little — practically from birth — I had a best friend named Bette. Her parents were good friends with [...]
Prompted By Friendship
May 2, 2017
Think back about …
Art and Art Museums
Some of us are artists, and some are not, but we have all enjoyed art in one form or another in our lives. Think back … have you created art when you were a child or later as an adult? If so, what medium was or is your favorite? If you have just enjoyed art as a spectator, was it in museums, galleries, or some other place? Do you collect art yourself? Share your art and art museums stories forward.Upcoming Prompts
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