Norman Rockwell

One Friday night in December, my friend Stacy invited me to go out to The Brooklyn Museum of Art. They were hosting a special night for JP Morgan Chase (one of the museum's sponsors and Stacy's employer)! It was totally free and included entrance to the museum, a glass of wine and a guided tour of their current exhibit on Norman Rockwell. The exhibit was amazing. It showed how Rockwell used photographs for his paintings. He would put so much effort into setting up the perfect photo...from the different props to how the people were standing. If the painting was supposed to be of someone running, he would have their legs propped up for the photo so they were in a running position. The detail that went just into the photos was amazing. And then he turned them into fantastic paintings! It was one of my most favorite exhibits at a museum ever!  We were not allowed to take pictures inside that exhibit, but you can see an example of his work on display there and how he used photography here.

We toured a couple of other exhibits at the museum while we were there and we were allowed to take pictures in those.  These were a couple of my favorite pieces...

After the museum, we were starving for dinner and ended up going to a brand new restaurant on the Lower East Side that we had both read about in an article that week. It was called Goat Town and was really cool! The food was good, too.  We both were starving because it was late and got big burgers....they were delicious, but I'd love to go back sometime and try some of the other interesting things on their menu!