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I really enjoyed the Society of Illustrators. I came into the museum with no knowledge of what it was. I didn’t prepare how I would normally prepare, looking at the museum’s website, seeing what’s on display, and any other information so I don’t feel out of place. But I went in blind. Indemnity I felt the difference from when I went to Whitney. The Society of Illustrators is extremely small, with only three rooms. The first two galleries had a wide variety of illustration, a lot of which I either recognized from my favorite children’s books or to the New York Times comics. The third \u201croom\u201d ,that was more of a hallway, had an exhibit from Anna and Elena Balbusso. When I first walked into the museum it felt closer to the Alice Austen house but as I moved through the connection faded. The galleries are packed with illustrations. The way the art was displayed made me overwhelmed from a distance so I was forced to be up close to the art. Due to being so close to the art I was able to see and really appreciate the detail that was put into each piece.<\/span><\/p>\n

My favorite illustration in the museum is a piece by Maurice Sendak. The piece is an illustration of a character from <\/span>Where the Wild Things Are<\/span><\/i>. <\/span>Where the Wild Things Are <\/span><\/i>is my favorite book from my childhood. However, prior to the visit I had forgotten about my connection to this book, so when I saw the drawing I immediately was reminded of when I used to flip though the pages looking at the picture. Being reminded of my childhood was a nice change of pace. Usually at museums I have to sit with the art and dig deep to find the connection. But with this piece I had already found the connection from my many rereads of the book, and seeing this piece brought that connection back out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When I visited the Society of Illustrators<\/span> it was mid day on Friday. I was alone and was one of 3 people in the museum. For the majority of my visit i was alone with the art.<\/p>\n

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I really enjoyed the Society of Illustrators. I came into the museum with no knowledge of what it was. I didn’t prepare how I would normally prepare, looking at the museum’s website, seeing what’s on display, and any other information so I don’t feel out of place. But I went in blind. Indemnity I felt … Continue reading Illan Grano<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/arts-in-new-york-salois-summer-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/arts-in-new-york-salois-summer-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/arts-in-new-york-salois-summer-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/arts-in-new-york-salois-summer-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/arts-in-new-york-salois-summer-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/arts-in-new-york-salois-summer-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/arts-in-new-york-salois-summer-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/arts-in-new-york-salois-summer-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/arts-in-new-york-salois-summer-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/arts-in-new-york-salois-summer-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}