Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Nov 22, 2009, 5:16 pm
I’ve concluded that autumn is the best time of year for nature photography. Either that, or I simply had a very good day in terms of inspiration, stimulation, and visual perception. My Sunday st...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Nov 19, 2009, 9:55 pm
While I was skimming rather quickly through art images the other day, I paused when I came across this 1532 painting by Correggio. I glimpsed an unusual scenario taking place but had to stop and make ...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Nov 15, 2009, 9:56 pm
Ask me to do quick poses and I am a happy girl. I get to move and bend, stretch and gesture, twirl and pivot, and stomp and slide across the platform. Because I own that sucker. The timer ticks away, ...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Nov 13, 2009, 12:50 pm
It was entertaining, educational, adorable, innocent, playful, and fun. It was Sesame Street, the groundbreaking show in children’s television programming. It debuted on PBS on November 10th, 1...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Nov 11, 2009, 11:23 am
Hellooo, helloooooo! How is everyone? I’m fine, just fighting off a teensy sore throat/cough. Nothing major. I hope my usual concoctions of herbal and natural remedies will do the trick. A lot ...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Nov 7, 2009, 12:16 pm
contemplation |ˌkäntəmˈplā sh ən| noun the action of looking thoughtfully at something for a long time • deep reflective thought introspection |ˌintrəˈspek sh ən| noun the examinatio...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Nov 4, 2009, 12:53 pm
I don’t know what happened these past 48 hours but I just suddenly fell into gloom. Between the anxious thoughts in my head and the sadness in my heart, I can’t get a good night’s sl...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Nov 1, 2009, 6:07 pm
Happy All Saints Day, everyone!!!!!! :silence: Ahem. I SAID . . . Happy All Saints Day, everyone!! :sigh: Hello? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Okay, so I forgot to post something for Halloween and n...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Oct 29, 2009, 10:13 pm
George Clooney may fancy himself a dashing ladies’ man, but he’s got nothing on the Italian Renaissance master Raphael. Incredibly charming and good-looking by all accounts, Raphael was a ...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Oct 27, 2009, 7:10 pm
Whew. I’m tired. Two hectic days can really knock you out. Between Flora Giffuni’s memorial and my mother’s birthday and an art modeling double at Spring Studio today, I’m poop...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Oct 24, 2009, 5:15 pm
Edgar Degas was one of the finest pastelists of all time and also one of the great champions of the medium. But Degas died in 1917 and, based on a cursory overview of art history styles and trends, se...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Oct 21, 2009, 11:39 am
Helloooo friends! Posting today because I’m working a full day tomorrow at FIT and wanted to give a few Museworthy updates. So first, I recently started a Flickr account. Since I love taking pic...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Oct 19, 2009, 12:50 pm
I’m starting to think that the secrets to understanding- and coping- with life’s disappointments are found in two concepts: “perspective” and “attitude”. For highly...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Oct 16, 2009, 12:18 pm
Now and then, a distracting diversion comes at the most opportune time. I’m grateful when that happens. A big gathering of friends and family is taking place at my mother’s house Saturday ...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Oct 13, 2009, 9:34 pm
Who needs a doctor’s diagnosis when all your friends are artists? I trust their knowledge of human anatomy more than any MD. Plus it’s a lot easier to get an appointment During my short...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Oct 10, 2009, 6:56 pm
New art gallery shows open almost every week in this town. They’re everywhere, from midtown to Chelsea to Tribeca to SoHo to Brooklyn. Some of them are worth seeing, others not so much. But I am...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Oct 7, 2009, 6:28 pm
We have lost even this twilight. No one saw us this evening hand in hand while the blue night dropped on the world. I have seen from my window the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops. S...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Oct 4, 2009, 10:33 pm
A couple of years ago, a guy I had just met asked me what I did for a living and I told him I was a professional artist’s model. Then he asked me if I pose nude. Naturally, I answered “yes...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Oct 2, 2009, 10:39 pm
Hello my darlings! My honeys! I’ve been trying to get to you ALL DAY. I set aside this lovely Friday as a blog “posting day”, and was hindered by connection problems It started th...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Sep 29, 2009, 6:33 pm
It’s already 7:30 in the evening and I still haven’t put up a post for my brother’s birthday!! Couldn’t help it, I was out all day. But it’s still not too late. Chris was...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Sep 27, 2009, 5:26 pm
Hellooo, helloooooo!! Greetings from a rainy Sunday in New York. How is everyone? On the heels of Museworthy’s birthday bash, I’m sitting at home snacking on chips, spicy salsa, and avocad...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Sep 23, 2009, 11:46 pm
Well friends, here we are again, in celebration mode!! It’s a festive gala, a jamboree, commemorating this blog’s 2nd birthday. You know what this means, don’t you? It means Musewort...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Sep 22, 2009, 11:38 am
Yesterday’s modeling assignment took me on a nostalgic time travel journey. I was thrust back twenty years into my past, to a time when I was young, wide-eyed, and had my whole life ahead of me....
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Sep 19, 2009, 8:04 pm
While I’d like to claim credit for thorough, meticulous planning of each and every art post I compose, I must confess that, in some cases, my post subjects have been discovered purely by acciden...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Sep 16, 2009, 12:08 pm
Last Sunday night was the opening reception for Jordan Mejias’ art exhibit at Spring Studio. I confess that I don’t attend every art opening to which I’m invited. But I would not mis...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Sep 13, 2009, 2:17 am
How do we go about judging a famous artistic figure? Do we treat them as a stand alone individual, or do we evaluate them in relation to their peers? I’ve often grappled with this subject and, t...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Sep 9, 2009, 6:22 pm
I have some priceless words of wisdom to share with my readers. Are you all sitting down? Do I have your undivided attention? Are you prepared the take notes? Ok, here goes; riding a bicycle with a fl...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Sep 6, 2009, 11:18 am
Okay, maybe I spoke too soon in my last post. Yeah I had a rough first day at FIT, but I let it prey on my mind too much and impulsively posted my concerns on the blog. Ooops! Sorry everyone! You see,...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Sep 3, 2009, 10:05 pm
It’s arrived. The fall school semesters are upon us. Upon me. Even though I worked during the summer, albeit sporadically, this is the real deal. This is the full swing. This is the return of ma...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Aug 31, 2009, 10:52 am
Many thanks to my longtime reader and fellow artist’s model ColdSilverMoon for sending me this YouTube video. He presumed I’d find it interesting and amusing and he was right. The hosts of...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Aug 28, 2009, 12:48 am
Paris Hilton. Kim Kardashian. These “socialite” rich girls today are such a joke. Vapid, stupid, aimless, annoying. They are faux free spirits. Inconsequential. Pathetic lightweights when ...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Aug 24, 2009, 12:36 pm
I can’t get it out of my head. This bizarre dream I had last night. You know how the vast majority of dreams fade away within minutes of waking up, but then there are those select few which are ...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Aug 22, 2009, 12:31 pm
So I have a few hours of free afternoon time today, and I had hoped to use it productively, “hoped” being the operative word there. Two monstrous house chores have been unattended for week...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Aug 20, 2009, 9:57 am
What a marvelous two days I just had, and neither art nor art modeling was involved. Instead I was immersed in my other passion, animal rights advocacy. It began Tuesday night with an event I had mark...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Aug 16, 2009, 6:21 pm
“I loathe my own face, and I’ve done self-portraits because I’ve had nobody else to do.” -Francis Bacon Well Francis, you could have sprung for model’s fees and hired s...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Aug 12, 2009, 11:30 am
My last post turned out to be one of those “careful what you wish for” deals. I innocently puzzled over where the authentic summer “heat glob” had been all these weeks and, lo ...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Aug 9, 2009, 6:05 pm
We have passed the summer halfway point. For those of us in New York and the northeast, it’s been a bizarre season in terms of weather. Sooooo much rain and thunderstorms, cloudy overcast skies ...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Aug 5, 2009, 10:24 pm
Art and friends. Is there a better formula for lovely times? I think not. Works splendidly for me, since art and friends are two major components of my life. Last Saturday was an occasion of lovelines...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Aug 4, 2009, 9:50 am
To all Museworthy readers; if you have the opportunity, if a theater near you is showing it, I urge you to go see the movie “The Cove”. I saw it yesterday here in New York at the Angelika,...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Jul 30, 2009, 11:36 pm
Three years ago I was still modeling at the Art Students League. For New York models, working at that place is a rocky, volatile, unpredictable scene. And infuriating. I left that school largely due t...
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