Artclub Artclub — Field Log

MAY 27 2026

Keith Haring @ The Brant Foundation

Keith Haring believed art should belong to everyone. His bold lines and unmistakable figures were inspired as much by the streets and subway stations of New York as they were by museums. Seeing his work together in such a huge space like the Brant Foundation showed us that even the simplest drawings can carry enormous energy and meaning.

After the show, we ran around Tompkins Square Park, ate corn dogs at Crif Dogs, stopped by Village Works, sketched in front of the Keith Haring Self-Portrait, spun the Astor Place cube, and saw Shantell Martin's Get Outside mural in Union Square.

MAY 27 2026

Haas Bros @ MAD

It's hard not to smile around the Haas Brothers' work. Their exhibition at the Museum of Art & Design was filled with fuzzy creatures, oversized furniture, playful sculptures, and objects that seem to exist between fantasy and design. Nothing looked quite the way we expected, which was exactly the point.

The Haas Brothers remind us that imagination doesn't disappear when you grow up. It just finds new materials.

MAR 29 2026

Museum of Modern Art

Every visit to MoMA feels a little different when you have a mission.

Instead of wandering the galleries, the artcubs set off on a scavenger hunt to find Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans, Salvador Dalí's melting clocks , Jackson Pollock's explosive paintings, and Roy Lichtenstein's comic-book worlds. Along the way we sketched, debated whether certain works were "even art," invented our own titles, posed like sculptures, and filled pages with sixty-second drawings.

The scavenger hunt allowed us to slow us down instead of rushing past famous artworks. We looked closer, asked better questions, and discovered that the best museum visits aren't about finding every masterpiece. They're about paying attention.

MAR 20 2026

Outsider Art Fair

Some artists go to art school. Others simply start making things.

The Outsider Art Fair brings together self-taught artists from around the world alongside galleries that champion work outside the traditional art world. Every booth feels different, and it's one of the few fairs where conversations with artists happen as often as conversations about the art.

We spent most of our time at the Court Tree Collective booth with sculptor Louis Sarowsky. Before carving stone, Lou was known for skateboarding. Now he transforms everyday objects into hand-carved sculptures. He passed his sculptures around, let the kids hold them, and answered every question they could think of. Spending time with the artist ended up being just as memorable as the artwork itself.

Watch Lou carve a hot dog.

MAR 13 2026

Whitney Biennial 2026

The Whitney Biennial is one of New York's biggest contemporary art exhibitions. Every two years the museum fills with new work from artists across the country, making each Biennial completely different from the last.

There wasn't a single theme we all agreed on, and that made it fun. We bounced between enormous installations, tiny drawings, paintings, sculptures, and video pieces that kept changing the day's pace. Some conversations happened in front of work we didn't immediately understand. Instead of rushing through, we spent time asking questions and hearing everyone's different interpretations.

JAN 19 2026

Tom Spoerndle

At first glance, Tom Spoerndle's work looks simple. Then you start noticing things. Shapes repeat. Colors overlap. Patterns appear where you didn't expect them.

Tom talked with us about building complex ideas from a small set of basic forms, proving that creativity isn't always about adding more. Sometimes it's about seeing more in what's already there. We walked out looking at circles, triangles, and rectangles much differently.

JAN 19 2026

MoMA PS1

MoMA PS1 has been introducing people to new ideas since it opened inside a former public school in 1976. It's a place where artists come to try things that might not fit anywhere else.

The second we stepped into the courtyard, the artcubs ran straight for Yto Barrada's Le Grand Soir. Within minutes, they were climbing it and playing tag around it, which was exactly what Barrada had intended. Inspired by the human pyramids of Morocco, the sculptures were designed to be used, not just looked at.

Before heading home, we spent time with Lady Pink's mural and pointed out some of the artists she included in it like SANE, ZEPHYR, REVOLT, and DALEK. One of the pioneers of New York City graffiti, she helped open doors for generations of artists who came after her. Seeing her work at PS1 is a reminder that ideas once meant for subway cars can eventually find their place on museum walls.

NOV 21 2025

Pioneer Works

Pioneer Works was started by artist Dustin Yellin inside an old ironworks factory in Red Hook. Rather than building another museum, he created a place where people can make things, test ideas, and share what they're working on.

We spent most of our time under Raúl de Nieves's stained glass tarot windows. As the afternoon light moved through the fifty panels, the whole room kept changing. The installation is inspired by tarot, transformation, and the idea that we're always becoming someone new.

NOV 21 2025

Pablo Power

There are a few chapters to Pablo Power's story that you won't find hanging on gallery walls. Pablo's paintings bring together a lot of different worlds. Graffiti, travel, photography, painting, and years of collecting all find their way into the same piece. The longer you look, the more connections you start to find.

His studio felt the same way. Every wall held drawings, books, photos, found objects, and works in progress. Pablo talked about paying attention, collecting ideas, and letting them sit until they found the right place.

It made us understand that making art often starts long before you pick up a brush.

OCT 02 2025

General Wear

There were a lot of buttons.

General Wear welcomed us into their embroidery studio to show us how artwork makes its way from a computer screen to hats, hoodies, and jackets. We watched industrial embroidery machines stitch thousands of tiny threads into finished designs and, whenever possible, the artcubs found another button to press.

Before a single stitch is sewn, every design has to be translated into instructions the machine can understand. Watching that process we found embroidery isn't just about thread. It's part drawing, part engineering.

SEP 24 2025

Coney Island

We took the subway all the way to Coney Island with sketchbooks in our backpacks and spent the day exploring the aquarium, the boardwalk, the amusement park, and everything in between. Along the way, we stopped to draw jellyfish, roller coasters, subway platforms, and whatever else caught our attention.

Some of the best sketches weren't made inside a museum. They were made on train rides, park benches, and while waiting for friends to finish their own drawings. It was a reminder that inspiration isn't tied to a building. Sometimes it begins the moment you leave the station.

SEP 24 2025

Brooklyn Museum

Sometimes we visit museums with a plan. This wasn't one of those days.

We started outside by climbing the Rappin' Max Robot, an 18-foot steel sculpture inspired by the first hip-hop comic book and built by apprentices from Bushwick's Welder Underground.

We wandered through Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200, revisiting old favorites and discovering a few new ones along the way. We sketched beneath a giant KAWSsculpture left over from his show five years ago, spent a few quiet minutes inside the Rubin Museum's Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room after its move from Chelsea, and eventually found ourselves standing in front of Jenny Holzer's glowing wall of text. The kids stared at it for a while, trying to figure out if it was art, a giant sign, or someone yelling at them. Maybe all three.

That's the nice thing about the Brooklyn Museum. You can go looking for one thing and leave remembering something completely different.

SEP 23 2025

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art houses more than 5,000 years of human creativity under one roof (and $95M worth of looted artifacts), making it one of the largest and most diverse art museums in the world.

Rather than trying to see everything, we picked a few places to slow down. The kids spread out across the galleries with sketchbooks, drawing Egyptian sculptures, ancient architecture, suits of armor, and anything else that caught their attention. Spending time with a single object turned out to be far more memorable than rushing past hundreds of them.

Afterward, we crossed into Central Park, climbed the rocks overlooking the city, and finished the afternoon at the East 72nd and Billy Johnson playgrounds. It felt like a fitting ending to a day spent exploring civilizations separated by thousands of years.

MAY 24 2025

Isolina Minjeong

Painting a mural looks a lot easier from across the street.

Artist Isolina Minjeong invited us to help paint sections of her Downtown Brooklyn mural, Fear No Frontier. Inspired by Korean and Peruvian folklore, it weaves together tigers, dragons, flowers, and symbols of protection into what she describes as "quiet blessings" for the neighborhood.

Most of the afternoon was spent crouched over the pavement with a brush in our hands, carefully filling in one shape after another. By the time we packed up, we weren't just looking at a mural anymore. We knew how much work it took to put one there.

MAR 31 2025

Museum of the City of New York — Martin Wong Collection

The Museum of the City of New York is one of those places that reminds you the city's history isn't just found in textbooks. It's written on buildings, sidewalks, subway cars, and storefronts too.

We visited Above Ground, an exhibition built around Martin Wong's legendary graffiti collection. Martin recognized that the artists painting subway cars in the 1970s and '80s were creating something worth saving. While the trains eventually disappeared, many of the sketches, canvases, and photographs survived because he believed they belonged in the story of New York.

Seeing the work together made it easier to understand why graffiti became one of New York's most influential art movements. It wasn't just about writing your name. It was about style, identity, and leaving your mark on the city.

JAN 29 2025

Noble Signs

Noble Signs is a working sign shop and the home of the New York Sign Museum. While the studio is still making signs by hand every day, the museum is busy rescuing the ones that tell the story of New York before they disappear.

We toured both spaces and got a look at the entire process, from sketches and layout to paint, gold leaf, and finished signs. Upstairs, old storefronts, neon, and hand-painted lettering showed how much personality used to live on the city's streets. It made us slow down and start noticing the signs we'd normally walk right past.

JAN 29 2025

Bushwick Print Lab

We arrived with drawings and left wearing them.

Bushwick Print Lab is a working screen printing studio in Brooklyn where artists, designers, and printmakers produce everything from fine art editions to tees and posters. Nothing is hidden behind glass. The presses are running, the screens are covered in ink, and every print is pulled by hand.

This was one of those trips where everyone got their hands dirty. We burned screens, mixed ink, lined everything up, and pulled our own prints. The kids quickly learned that every layer has to land in exactly the right place, and that even a small mistake can turn into something interesting. By the end of the day, they weren't just taking home prints. They understood how they were made.

NOV 19 2024

Jordan Seiler

We started the afternoon on the High Line, stopping to sketch Iván Argote’s giant pigeon, before walking downtown to Jordan Seiler's Chelsea studio. It turned out to be a fitting start to the day. Both artists ask us to take another look at parts of the city we usually ignore.

Most people walk past a payphone or bus shelter without giving it a second thought. Jordan has spent years turning both into works of art.

Several payphones from his Talk To Me project had found a second life inside the studio. The kids picked up the receivers, dialed, and learned how the phones once connected strangers across New York. Jordan also showed us his augmented reality photographs, artist books, and the custom tool he fabricated to open bus shelter advertising cases.

Then we headed outside, where he unlocked a sidewalk advertisement right in front of us. In a few seconds, something designed to sell us something became a place for art instead.

The city looked exactly the same when we left. We just noticed a lot more.

NOV 11 2024

Lena Imamura

Lena Imamura is a New York artist whose work explores light as a material, creating hand-bent neon sculptures while building spaces that support artists and creative communities.

Light isn't usually something you think of as a material.

At Lena's studio GLO, we watched glass tubes heated, bent, and transformed into glowing sculptures. What seems effortless in a finished neon sign turned out to be a careful balance of craftsmanship, patience, and years of practice.

The artcubs learned that light can be bent, shaped, and given form. Afterward, every neon sign we passed on the walk home felt a little less ordinary.

NOV 05 2024

Faust

FAUST has spent decades turning letters into one of the most recognizable voices in New York graffiti, proving that an alphabet can become an art form all its own.

Hidden above the streets of Chinatown, FAUST walked us through sketchbooks, paintings, lettering studies, and walls covered in works in progress. What looked effortless on the street turned out to be the result of years of drawing the same letters over and over until they became second nature.

The kids filled pages with their own alphabets, watched him break down the structure behind his handstyles, and asked the kinds of questions only kids think to ask. Before we left, they had each made a small piece inspired by what they'd learned.

Afterward, we wandered back through Chinatown, sketchbooks still in hand, looking at signs, storefronts, and walls a little differently than we had that morning.

NOV 01 2024

Fernando Lions - Street Dreams

Most kids don't expect to spend an afternoon inside a tattoo studio.

Fernando Lions welcomed us into Street Dreams and showed us that every tattoo begins long before it reaches someone's skin. We handled tattoo stencils, flipped through sketchbooks, talked about lettering, and discovered that behind every finished tattoo are dozens of drawings, revisions, and hours of practice.

NOV 01 2024

The Drawing Center — The Way I See It

Every artist has influences. KAWS just happened to put his on the walls of

Drawn entirely from KAWS's personal collection, The Drawing Center's The Way I See It show brought together hundreds of works by artists who have influenced the way he thinks, collects, and creates. It was a reminder that every artist starts as a fan first.

The kids spent the afternoon sitting on the gallery floor with sketchbooks, choosing favorite drawings and discovering artists they had never heard of before. Looking through someone else's collection felt less like visiting a museum and more like getting a tour of their imagination.

JUN 26 2024

Anthony Zollo Studio

Photographer friend. Ben Fractenberg joined us at Anthony Zollo's studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. A space brimming with stacks of lumber, partially finished furniture, and enough clamps to hold together a small city.

Seeing the journey of wood from rough board to polished piece revealed the art of craftsmanship in an intriguing light. Each cut, joint, and decision is intentional, and understanding this process makes you appreciate the beauty behind the details.

JUN 25 2024

Lehmann Maupin - OSGEMEOS & Barry McGee

This time we visited the Lehmann Maupin gallery in Chelsea. Walking between these two exhibitions felt like stepping into different conversations that somehow spoke the same language.

OSGEMEOS built dreamlike worlds inspired by childhood, music, and Brazilian culture, while Barry McGee transformed everyday objects, signs, and street influences into something entirely his own. The artists have been friends for more than thirty years, making the visit as much about creative community as individual work.

JUN 24 2024

Whitney Biennial 2024

There couldn't have been a better place to begin Artclub than the Whitney Biennial. Every two years, the museum brings together artists whose work reflects what's happening in American art right now.

We filled our sketchbooks, compared notes, and spent a little longer with the works we couldn't quite figure out. Some made immediate sense. Others took a little longer. That was kind of the point.

We finished the afternoon wandering through Little Island before heading home. By then, our sketchbooks were a little fuller, and so were our conversations.