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To those people I would say there are a thousand ways to live and the only life you should live is the one that makes you the best possible version of yourself. If, as I’ve heard said, we should keep a distance from those that we love but try to take care of them, too, then at least I’m doing part of that right. I thrive on living abroad. The travel. The challenge. The people I meet. I love it all. In order to have a good life as an expat you have to commit to it. I’ve seen a lot of people come overseas and not give themselves all the way, pining for their home country — for its food, its government, its pedestrian customs — and they live a kind of half life. Not here but not there, either. It’s the ones who stop wishing for home who make their lives work abroad.

Bart Schaneman , in Thought Catalog

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Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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Students talk about how they love art and the Art in Action program.

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Because two Degas are better than one (at The Courtauld Gallery)

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magical London nights. 🎶 The Staves and (a very proud) Justin Vernon at the Wilton's Music Hall.

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"When b&w are colours and not races, people will still fall in love and discriminate between partners and feel sad and bad and need art that breaks your heart and takes you to those places where pain becomes beauty." #Dumas @tategallery (at Tate Modern)

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This. 

Reasons not to work in a museum

As I started to think about this Tumblr and what it could be… the sort of things I might want to post and reblog… I decided to go through all the blogs/articles/texts I have been saving since I started to get into museums. 

John Orna-Ornstein’s post on the Arts Council England Blog has resonated with me for a long time. 

"Why would anyone choose to work in a museum?”

I remember after I got my first internship in the Education department of a museum, I met up with some friends and while I was excitingly talking about the workshops and the guided tours I was doing, someone turned to me and said “Is that why you spent all this years studying? To guide people around?”

Idiotic comments aside… years later and after numerous attempts to get into the sector and actually find a stable job, I keep asking myself: why do I want to work in a museum?! When it’s so hard and when there are not that many jobs (certainly not permanent ones), when you will have to do extra hours and more that it’s stated on your job description and when the paying is not that great. 

Why? 

Well… exactly because of all that! Because like John said “These are indeed challenging times for museums, but they’re also full of hope.” The people who work in these institutions often live under the threat of a short term contract or the potential local authority cuts. But they go the extra mile regardless of that. They stay late, they do whatever needs to be done and they work together for a common cause. But most importantly, they carry on with an inspiring love for this profession. 

And because I believe museums are extraordinary places that can change people’s lives! I’ve seen it happen… Museums can bring a community together by engaging them with their common history; museums can help children learn without the constrictions of a classroom that are not a good fit for all students; museums can inspire and empower people by providing a space to create something.  

I agree with John, “There’s nowhere better than a museum to work.”

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Sargent sure had a way with a brush.

I found this treasure while going through old photos I took at the Getty. Sargent sure had a way with a brush.

John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Thérèse, Countess Clary Aldringen (1896)

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If art fatigue reflects apathy at feeling left out of a conversation around art, then one must try to avoid writing about it in a similarly disenfranchising language.

Amy Whitaker in Museum Legs

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