{"id":36219,"date":"2020-05-28T14:53:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T14:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=36219"},"modified":"2020-05-28T14:53:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T14:53:08","slug":"state-of-the-heart-a-virtual-museum-date-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/state-of-the-heart-a-virtual-museum-date-to-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the (He)art: A Virtual Museum Date to Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Editor’s note: dating during a pandemic poses certain social and spacial obstacles \u2013 especially for those who prefer to spend time with their suitors at cultural institutions, like museums and gallery shows. These environments provide opportunities for cultural mavens to suss out their dates: are they curious? Surprisingly knowledgable? Woefully clueless when it comes to the nuances of materiality?<\/em> Art world professionals and hobbyists alike have themselves been struggling to keep up with the massive influx of digital content replacing our usual IRL exhibition outings. Can casual dating stand the test of interactive platforms, slow loading speeds, and choppy video interviews?<\/em> It\u2019s a Thursday night in quarantine and frankly, I was feeling thirsty: thirsty for art, and thirsty for a date. I turned to my favorite black hole, the internet, which I\u2019ve been frequenting a lot more lately to find something to quench my thirst. The internet came through again for me, in more ways than one. It not only led me to my sweet spot, TimeOut<\/a>, where I found a comprehensive list of virtual museum tours, but it, or rather, technology, also gave me my guest for the night: a guy I had met on a dating app and have been casually dating during the 10 weeks (…but who\u2019s counting?!) of quarantine. As someone who used to work in special events at the Whitney Museum of American Art, I was well-versed in how to make yourself sound impressively smart when discussing art at a museum exhibit with a date. I recalled learning about the relationship between artists in the \u201880s, a tumultuous political time rife with public health concerns, from my experience working at the museum during the small but mighty exhibition titled Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s<\/em><\/a>. As soon as I got off the elevator to the 8th floor, I was greeted by two prolific street artists who created their own language of now recognizable symbols: Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) and Keith Haring (1958-90).
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