NYC Day 1-pt. 1

@NYC I am in you once again!!!

I love New York City. While I'm not sure that I would have wanted to grow up here, it's certainly an amazing place to visit, and considering that my mom is from here, we come up pretty often. It has become a sort of tradition for my mom and me to visit for a few days here and there in the the fall/winter, and this year we've been extra good about it. We were here just last month for my birthday and to visit NYU (not sure it's for me) and we are back yet again for an art trip! But what the hell is an art trip? 

Basically, we're just going to hit as many museums as we can before we leave on Tuesday and take in as much artwork as humanly possible.  At least that's my plan. There will hopefully be a little bit of shopping here and there, but this trip is primarily reserved for museums and culturing myself. 😊

We started off strong and upon arriving, headed straight to the hotel to drop off out bags and then walked right over to MoMA. There were a few specific exhibits that I wanted to see there but for the most part we just walked around and wandered in and out of various galleries. The two I wanted to see were the Jackson Pollock exhibition and Ocean of Images . Here is my review of the Pollock exhibit, check back tomorrow for my review on Ocean of Images and a few other exhibits!

Having recently watched the movie Pollock on HBO, (very good and very accurate, I would definitely recommend if you're in the mood for an interesting story!) there wasn't a ton of information in the exhibit that I didn't already know. However if you didn't know Pollock's life story, the exhibit did a very good job of touching on the important parts of his life and how they shaped his work over the years. Additionally, the number of pieces on display was far more than one could ever hope for. From prints to sketches, the museum went above and beyond the usual "splatter paint" works one might originally associate with Pollock and told a story about his life with extremely representative pieces. In my opinion, 9/10. It only lost a point because of the crowds and the lack of  representation of my favorite piece, Number 1 (Lavender Mist); neither of which the museum could do anything about because the first issue is caused by Christmas-time in the city which always means big crowds, and the latter is due to the fact that it is hanging in DC where I saw it last. So overall I guess it does deserve a 10/10!

LC

ho ho ho!!

As I sit here writing this post Christmas music is playing in the background, I'm wearing a santa hat, cupcakes are in the oven, and I'm munching on white chocolate chips. I don't know about you, but for me, it doesn't get much better than that. Even though I don't, my best friend celebrates Christmas, so I went to her house today in order to get a genuine pre-christmas experience. We had such a good time wrapping gifts and baking peppermint cupcakes, the whole day made me really grateful for the good people in my life (cheesy I know, but had to be said). Here are some pictures from the day, merry Christmas Eve!

LC

CC 2.0

Welcome to the new and improved Chesapeake Classic! If you've been visiting for a while you might notice a bit of a change in the color scheme of the page, but overall not much has changed (other than the fact that I'm actually blogging, um hello it's been a few months!)

However as for me, I've been toying around with the idea of blogging again for a while now, I just felt as though I could never decide on which persona to present here. So I would choose one, but then feel as though I had to alter the entire appearance of the whole website, so I would do so, but never actually post anything because I was so exhausted from redesigning the whole damn site. And then it would begin again when I was in a different mood a month later. I swear, it's a vicious cycle.  Then eventually I realized that the whole point of blogging was to share yourself with the internet, not a persona. So why the     insert more dramatic word here if you wish     heck was I trying so hard, when honestly, the only person affected by this whole mess of a cycle was myself. So here I am. For the third time. Trying to share just myself. And just to play it on the safer side, I've created as neutral of a palette as humanly possible so as to avoid any future color rejections that I might have. 

Here's to decisions. And to the future, whatever that may be over here. Happy Christmas Eve Eve!

LC