Museum Magic: The Picasso Museum, Paris

While in Paris at the end of July, one of my many stops was the Picasso Museum. Filled with 5,000 of his works, including some of his most famous ones. I was able to see the Portrait of Dora Maar, The Kiss, The seated Woman with Crossed Arms, Head of a Bearded Man, and The Weeping Woman to name a few. I think the pieces speak for themselves better than I ever could.

Le Retour du baptême Le Nain

The Lovers

Still Life: bust, cup and palette

The Artist in front of the canvas, sketch

Picasso's own paintbrush/paint stand, just the way he left it

Still Life with Bull's head

The Kiss

Seated woman with crossed arms

Head of a bearded man

The weeping woman

Wounded minotaur, horse and figures

Minotaur and dead mare before a grotto facing a young girl with veil

Women in the bathroom

Portrait of Dora Maar 

Crucifixion

The Picasso museum is a very cool place to visit when in Paris, where you get to see Picasso's style evolve and develop into the cubism he is most known for. I tried to find most of the names of paintings I took photos of, but I could only recall and find out so many. 

Talk to you later,

-Karin xx

Museum Magic: The Guggenheim

I've been going to a lot of museums recently, enjoying myself and the astonishing feats I force myself to do, like walking 112 blocks and 4 avenues round trip to get from Penn Station to The Guggenheim without taking the subway to avoid the potential of getting lost and ending up in the Bronx or somewhere far far away from where I was supposed to be.

Anyway, 2 an venues and 56 blocks later, I get to The Guggenheim ready to be amazed. I also somehow got it in my head that Starry Night by Van Gogh was there, only to find out after going through the entire museum that it's actually at MoMA, which is also much closer to Penn Station. But nevertheless, I did get to see some Van Gogh, Manet, Monet, Degas, Cezanne, and Kandinsky works that were also pretty snazzy. I also didn't realize that you couldn't take pictures of the paintings, so I got away with 5 photos of paintings before being told I couldn't take pictures. But here is what I have for you.

Inside the Guggenheim

Right after I took this photos the security guard yelled at me for taking photos

Depending on what I'm doing next weekend, maybe I'll go to another museum or talk about one from my Paris trip!

Talk to you later,

-Karin xx

Fun things to do in Fall

So last week I talked about going to New York and experiencing Fall there, but this week I'm going to talk about what good old NJ has to offer.

Washington Rock State Park is always a great place to go if you want to get great views to New York City (all year round really)  and of the Fall foliage. 

Then on Friday, some of my friends went to the Red Mill Museum Haunted Village. We opted to get express tickets because when we showed up, the line was at least an hour and a half long. The express tickets cost $45 rather than $30, but with the student discount, you get $5 off. The haunted house is full of jump scares and frightening actors, which make the experience even more creepy. You are led through a series of different buildings, each getting more and more insane as you go through. I would definitely recommend going here, because its really worth it. Plus, the town is super cute and decorated for Halloween and a good place to walk around before and after the haunted house.

We, however, decided to go to McDonald's after, mostly because my friend was hungry and nothing else was open.  All in all it was a lot of fun and the interaction with the actors was too funny to forget. 

Talk to you later,

-Karin xx

Autumn in New York

The past couple weekends I've spent in both New York City and upstate New York. I visited my friend at NYU and then we headed up to the upper east side to go to the Met, and my favorite macaroon shop, Laduree.

At the Met, we 1) took pictures on the steps, and then 2) wondered around looking at masterpieces from Picasso, Degas, and Monet. (also ticket prices at the Met are only recommended, so we only paid a dollar total to get in)

I went here in July...

10/10 would recommend to anyone

Then this past weekend I went upstate for the weekend to my Grandma's house, which I can easily say is gorgeous almost all year round, but in my opinion, the autumn is the best season up there. Just take a look.

Sometimes I wish I could stay up there forever, but visiting makes the view better.  

Talk to you later,

-Karin xx