Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Feb 6, 2012, 11:02 pm
This is not a complaint by any means, nor a boast, but my modeling schedule is really rockin’! It’s 11:00 on Monday night and I am working a 12 hour day tomorrow I also got calls and emails today for more bookings. Woo hoo! Of course, my concerns about my physical deterioration are becoming m...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Feb 2, 2012, 12:48 am
Helloo, helloooo!! How are my dear Museworthy friends? I’ve been immersed in a busy art modeling schedule which has been going smashingly, I’m happy to say. Have a few blog posts in the works about some pretty cool topics. They are all currently in unfinished draft form. I will get to them as so...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Jan 28, 2012, 1:18 pm
if i believe – e.e. cummings if i believe in death be sure of this it is because you have loved me, moon and sunset stars and flowers gold crescendo and silver muting of seatides i trusted not, one night when in my fingers drooped your shining body when my heart sang between your pe...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Jan 23, 2012, 4:28 pm
Charlie “Bird” Parker, the legendary jazz saxophonist and bebop giant, famously said, “If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn”. Assuming that’s true, I could play a hell of a song right now about modeling for art classes. I have no clue what a song like that would sound l...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Jan 19, 2012, 7:57 pm
I have neither the will nor the energy right now to discuss at length the unhinged madness of the world in which we live. Who am I kidding using the word “discuss”? There is no discussion. There’s only hysteria, fear-mongering, verbal abuse, and the insidious effects of groupthink. In my lifet...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Jan 16, 2012, 3:57 pm
For today’s Music Monday, I am posting a video that I have fallen so in love with I can’t even estimate how many times I’ve watched it. With over five million views on YouTube, this is musician Drew Arcoleo jamming with his friend’s dog, a golden retriever who clearly digs the music. If th...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Jan 14, 2012, 12:17 pm
Happy Saturday y’all! May I ask that you take a brief break from your weekend football viewing preparations to read Museworthy? You can buy beer and chips later, ok? Just passing on word that I’ve been hearing from several folks in my art modeling travels, that the Renaissance Portrait exhibit...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Jan 10, 2012, 12:53 pm
Hello friends. This post was supposed to go up yesterday for Music Monday. I planned to write it when I got home from work but something came up that put me in a crummy, unsettled mood. It’s not a big deal, I just have a sensitivity to old unwelcome emotions being stirred up. So I sulked most of t...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Jan 5, 2012, 11:06 pm
Hey gang! I was just chatting on the phone with my Mom and I casually mentioned that I’m due for a new blog post. When I told her I would procrastinate and do it Friday night, she suggested I get it up now. Oh snap! My Mom doesn’t mess around. So, under extreme pressure from my momma, I’m post...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Jan 1, 2012, 11:50 am
2012 has a nice ring to it, don’t you think? Look at it written out: twenty-twelve. It sounds really fresh and sharp, but also has a tone of valor and assuredness, optimism and resolve. The alliteration and concise rhythm add to that tone. Twenty-twelve. Of course neither I nor anyone else knows ...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Dec 27, 2011, 11:30 pm
Hellooo my darlings! Quickie post here. My mama and I are leaving early in the morning for Boston to see the Degas show at the Museum of Fine Arts and to visit a dear family friend, Karla. We’re staying at Karla’s just one overnight and will be back in NYC late Thursday. It’s a short little tr...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Dec 26, 2011, 1:03 pm
Remember when you were nine years old and your cool, awesome Aunt gave you a harmonica for Christmas? Well, my niece does. It happened yesterday at Grandma’s house: She’s a Hajian through and through. Brava! Filed under: personal, photos Tagged: children, photography
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Dec 24, 2011, 6:13 pm
So I thought I had planned my pre-Christmas 48 hours thoroughly and methodically. The goal was to have ALL shopping and errands done so I wouldn’t have to leave the house today. I wanted to avoid the stores, the streets, the crowds and just stay home so I could wrap presents, prepare food to bring...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Dec 21, 2011, 3:51 pm
The great Bill Veeck famously said, “There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.” As a baseball fan myself I can somewhat relate to the sentiment. Winter. Ugh, winter. That bleak dormant interval between the last out of the World Series and the first pitch of opening day. Winter gets su...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Oct 30, 2011, 1:15 pm
Hellooooo!!! Happy Sunday my friends! Hope everyone is well. So this Tuesday, November 1st, is the deadline for Museworthy Art Show submissions. Now if someone submits on say, Wednesday or Thursday, of course it will go in the post. I’m not a strict rule-enforcer. But the thing is that starting M...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Oct 26, 2011, 12:24 am
I do believe today is October 26th, and that means one thing here on Museworthy: Happy Birthday Mom! She’s 76 years young today and Frank Sinatra is going to sing for her in a moment. But first I just want to say a few things about this great lady. She is both spunky and sensitive, monumentally ge...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Oct 24, 2011, 12:34 pm
Hi everyone! This week’s music will be posted on Wednesday instead of Monday, due to a special occasion. Stop by then and check it out Today I’d just like to share some goodies with all of you, cool stuff I’ve discovered through Twitter, Tumblr, email, and around the web. Hopefully some of i...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Oct 20, 2011, 10:42 pm
Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring, Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish, Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?) Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the strugg...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Oct 17, 2011, 6:58 pm
A new biography of Vincent Van Gogh is causing quite a buzz in the art history world. The authors present new speculations about the Dutch artist’s death by gunshot in 1890, long believed to have been an act of suicide. The new theory suggests that Van Gogh may have been shot by another person, po...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Oct 13, 2011, 12:35 pm
While New Yorkers are swooning over and raving about the de Kooning retrospective at MoMA, the good people of Boston have an art exhibition of their own to celebrate. The Museum of Fine Arts is now showing “Degas and the Nude”, and it looks fantastic. If de Kooning is considered a “must-see�...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Oct 10, 2011, 12:44 pm
Hellooo everyone!! Greetings and salutations! Before I get to Music Monday, I want to thank those of you who have already submitted your works to the Museworthy Art Show. They’re great! And it’s really exciting to see them in my email inbox To everyone else, you still have plenty of time to su...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Oct 6, 2011, 12:45 am
In the early 1980s, we students at Ryan Junior High School in Queens, NY were required to take a class called simply “Computer”. Our teacher was the sideburned, bell-bottom wearing Mr. Berkowitz. The class, in a word, sucked. And I sucked at it. The only reason I passed was because Berkowitz d...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Oct 2, 2011, 1:45 pm
Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest. So after a long art modeling double at Spring Studio yesterday I plan to indulge fully in the rest decree. I slept late which means I’m off to a good start! As for the rest of the day I intend to do absolutely nothing that involves physical activity. I got ...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Sep 28, 2011, 1:35 pm
In Woody Allen’s latest film “Midnight in Paris”, the actor Adrien Brody does a memorable cameo as Salvador ... forth from the 21st century to the 1920s. Brody’s Dali, speaking in almost indecipherable heavily- ... in the 1950s. In “Midnight in Paris”, Adrien Brody almost seemed to un...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Sep 24, 2011, 2:21 am
Here we are again, dearest friends. Commemorating  another Museworthy blog birthday We have completed four marvelous years. Who would have thought that the life of an artist’s model could inspire enough material for steady blogging? I sure didn’t! Yet, here we are. Here I am, after all this t...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Sep 22, 2011, 12:43 pm
The pastel portrait workshop I posed for last weekend was a great experience for many reasons. It was my first ever modeling job at the Art League of Long Island. The people enrolled in the class were incredibly warm, enthusiastic, and congenial. And best of all, the instructor was my very dear frie...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Sep 19, 2011, 9:50 am
Hellooooo!! How is everyone? I am in the middle of a work crunch. Did the whole weekend with the portrait workshop and now, like the Energizer Bunny, I keep going: two drawing sessions today, then tomorrow, and THEN I can break a bit on Wednesday I wish I could write a little more but I’m leavin...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Sep 15, 2011, 12:05 pm
I am so thrilled over the enthusiastic response to the Museworthy Art Show! Everyone, thank you so much. I’m really excited for this now So I was thinking that we’ll make the deadline for submissions on November 1st, which is a Tuesday. Then the show post will go up a week after that, on Novem...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Sep 11, 2011, 8:46 am
  RIP Tim Welty. FDNY Squad 288 in Maspeth, Queens. Husband, father of two, carpenter, skier, bungee-jumper, fearless individualist . . . usher at my wedding. “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any f...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Sep 9, 2011, 12:16 am
Hey gang! I mentioned in a recent post that I had a neat idea for this blog, so here it is. Are you ready? :drumroll and fanfare: I would like to invite any and all Museworthy readers to submit an artwork for an “art show” blog post! I really hope this interests many of you. I have readers who a...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Sep 5, 2011, 12:47 pm
Hello everyone! Won’t you join me for a Music Monday here on Museworthy? Today we pay tribute to the uniquely American musical genre known as “ragtime”. In our imaginations, we associate rags with the lively, danceable piano music played at the turn-of-the-century in saloons, music halls, caba...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Sep 2, 2011, 7:43 pm
Welcome to the weeeeek-end!!! A holiday weekend that is. Mine got off to a pesky start; first a malfunctioning refrigerator this morning, then a wild goose chase in search of a specific cordless phone battery (don’t ask), and then a “vandalized” section of my garden apparently caused by some r...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Aug 30, 2011, 1:12 pm
Epilogue - Robert Lowell Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme - why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled? I hear the noise of my own voice: The painter’s vision is not a lens, it trembles to caress the light. But sometimes everything I write with the thr...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Aug 27, 2011, 3:19 pm
So I had a little modeling company the other night while posing for my friend Bruce in his studio – his adorable smoky grey cat Ika When Bruce has a model over, Ika (pronouned “EE-ka”) wanders into the studio seeking attention. She meows, jumps up, and investigates the naked person on the pl...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Aug 23, 2011, 12:35 pm
Guess what everybody? I am now on Twitter! I may be avoiding Facebook like the plague, but I have nothing against Twitter. I’ve only been on it for two days, but so far it’s pretty fun! For those of you who are also on Twitter please follow and I will happily reciprocate! And for those of you n...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Aug 19, 2011, 7:47 pm
Ah, the workshop went really, really well. It was long posing of course, but it was a great pleasure working with Dennis Cheaney. And the class was so sweet! Such nice people. They were the types who, if they were leaving the building on a break,  generously asked me if I wanted coffee or something...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Aug 15, 2011, 7:20 pm
Hey gang. I’m posing for a figure workshop at the New York Academy of Art this whole week – an excellent booking for a model to have in the middle of August. This month is usually an idle, no-work wasteland, which is why I’m super grateful that the school gave me the gig. That’s 30 hours of ...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Aug 13, 2011, 7:26 pm
I just spent a lovely afternoon at The Cloisters with my good friend Fred Hatt. It was a great day of looking at art, taking pictures and enjoying the woodland sanctuary found in the northernmost section of Manhattan island. For those of you who are gardeners, like me, you know how even the most we...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Aug 9, 2011, 6:50 pm
I think Museworthy could use a little sprucing up, don’t you agree? Nothing major. It’s just that I haven’t made any changes in the sidebar/links in a really long time, nor have I updated the About page, Events and News, or introduced any new features. I have been lazy and neglectful  But I�...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Aug 5, 2011, 11:19 pm
Museworthy friends!!!! Hello my darlings! I have returned! And I miss Nantucket already Our family vacation was absolutely, positively wonderful. One of the best ever, and much needed by all of us. I took pictures, pictures, and more pictures. So for those of you who enjoy looking at vacation pho...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Jul 30, 2011, 12:28 pm
Well my friends, it has finally arrived! I leave tomorrow morning for Nantucket In 24 hours the family and I will be among the beach umbrellas, sand dunes, grasses, boat basins, harbor seals, shorebirds, and the wonderful friendly people of the island. As much as I love New York, it’s nice to ge...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Jul 28, 2011, 7:34 pm
Hellooooo everyone! Hope you’re all well. My art modeling jobs are finally winding down to make way for . . . SUMMER VACATION!! Woo hoo! Really excited. Just a couple of more days before the sunny beaches of Nantucket But the summer gigs have been terrific so far. Not plentiful, but top-notch. I...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Jul 24, 2011, 2:15 am
I’m sure you’ve all heard that Lucian Freud, the acclaimed British artist (and grandson of Sigmund) passed away on Wednesday at the age of 88. Often referred to as “a painter’s painter”, Freud was, by any measure, a giant of 20th century figurative art. Freud got up close and personal – ...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Jul 22, 2011, 1:05 am
How did I get to be 43 years old? It seems like just yesterday I was wearing braces, learning long division, and harboring crushes on every cute boy in school I was going to get all deep and introspective in this blog post. But I’ve had a hectic couple of days and it’s hot as hell from the sum...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Jul 18, 2011, 1:18 am
I am finally getting into the sketching habit. I’m NOT an artist, mind you, but it really is fun to scribble and sketch the things around us in our daily lives. Got a pad, pencil, brush? Make a little picture. Why not? So I’ve just been sketching whatever appeals to me. Cats are awesome, which...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Jul 14, 2011, 8:22 pm
“Bond. James Bond.”. You can hear the deep, manly voice of Sean Connery speaking those words, yes? But can you envision, like my mother has many times, the strapping, shirtless bod of Sir Sean? Well you can now. A long forgotten nude painting of Connery from 1952 has been discovered and will soo...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Jul 10, 2011, 11:42 pm
As much as people hate to admit it, everyone loves a good scandal. The more sensational the story and the more depraved the players, the better. What comprises a “scandal” these days is little more than an idiot NY congressman sending pictures of his dick over Twitter. But “old school” scand...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Jul 6, 2011, 2:47 pm
For those of you who are interested, my guest post is now published on the blog Little Seal. I’m still beyond flattered that Emily Rapp invited me to contribute. Writing the piece was a gratifying experience for me. Thanks so much for the opportunity, Emily. I look forward to hearing about Spain!...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Jul 4, 2011, 11:32 am
Happy Birthday America!!!   The Fourth of July falls on a Monday this year, so you know what that means – a patriotic Music Monday! I’ve got a great one for us. It’s a clip from the classic 1942 film “Yankee Doodle Dandy”, starring the amazing, multi-talented, iconic, beloved American a...
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Claudia H. posted an article on Museworthy - Jul 1, 2011, 11:58 pm
Hi everyone. I’m being terrorized by a mosquito right now. Aargh. Get outta here you bastard! Anyway, the July 4th weekend has arrived and I’ll be heading upstate tomorrow morning with the family, right after I make my famous kick-ass cole slaw. My niece will enjoy swimming in the lake, while ...
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