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Art Tours Nadja Hansen/Art Explorations provides immersive and interactive private art and history explorations at museums all across NYC.

Tours can be themed, special exhibitions, customized, or general museum collection highlights.

04/16/2025

I got a sneak peak before the grand re- opening of the Frick Collection. I've missed you for 5 years!!! Most beautiful museum in America. Feeling very VIP, brought my ride or die. (All the flowers are hand made from porcelain) this a smallllll slice... Can't wait for all my clients to see this!

04/10/2025

Today I gave a tour of Impressionism at the Met with an emphasis on influences and the artistic evolution of various artists including Manet, Monet, Renoir, Pissaro, Degas, Cassat and my favourite Berthe Morisot. We all had a terribly fun time.

04/03/2025

Finally made it to the really interesting Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery in DC. Filled with wonderful works and clearly a huge effort to lift up underrepresented voices. I was there when Trump was announcing his plans to "take over" to make sure there are no black or native or female stories told basically and the place would be a really boring morgue without them.

04/02/2025

Bucket list item ✔️

03/17/2025

Erin go bragh! Painting by Irish modernist Mary Swanzy (1882 - 1978)

Although Swanzy had at least 15 solo exhibitions during her lifetime and showed her work in group exhibitions alongside figures such as Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Raoul Dufy and Henry Moore, she was both modest and a woman – a double burden for an aspiring artist. Nor did she have a bohemian legend to bolster her name: she may have studied in Paris in the years that fauvism and cubism were invented, attended Gertrude Stein’s celebrated salons and watched Montmartre become the centre of the art world, but she did not join in the rackety goings-on. “You did not sit up at night carousing and drinking and making a fool of yourself,” Swanzy later said. “I couldn’t afford to. I couldn’t afford the time to be idle.”

03/03/2025

This weekend I gave my first tour of the beautiful Caspar David Friedrich exhibition at the Met. An early 19th century German artist, he is famous for his ability to paint the "sublime," meaning the beauty, majesty, and terrifying power and magnitude of the natural world. He was a great practitioner of Romanticism's ideas: how do humans fit into the natural world and existence in general?; how can we emphasize and depict the things we can't see and easily categorize like: emotions, the mystery of existence, moods, dreams, imagination, memories.
Here you see a stand in for the artist? For the viewer? He's gazing out from an unprotected craggy rock on a peak at the mountains as a heavy mist moves in.
No guardrails here, we can only imagine what he's feeling... Friedrich said he wanted to create space in his paintings for the imagination to interpret it. Sounds like a very modern sentiment for someone painting in 1808. Can't wait to give more tours of this show.

02/09/2025

I love all my three new Christmas kitties but I have a special place for the brave intrepid one, Sly. I absolutely love snowy days like this.

02/08/2025

NY Masters Week comes to a close. Always a highlight of my year. It's the one week of the year that all the old masters galleries have an exhibition up concurrently and dealers from London and Paris come over to NY with their best pieces. It's the gallery hopping week par excellence. This year was especially good.

02/07/2025

Gave a tour of the brilliant permanent collection at the Whitney museum this week. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney grew up in the outrageously wealthy Vanderbilt family in NY and at the Breakers mansion in Newport and married into the Whitney family who'd moved to America in the 1630s and later invented the cotton gin. She was expected to be a mother and hostess and instead became a professional artist and a collector and supporter of young American contemporary artists. She opened a studio and gave young American artists a place to show their work, she bought their work and in 1930 opened a museum of American contemporary art hiring a woman to be the director. She died in 1942 but the museum has continued to thrive as an exciting progressive avant-garde institution very much as she would have wanted. The permanent collection is stellar! I prefer it to MoMA. Room of Hopper, room of O'Keefe and a brilliant collection of female and black artists whose work was under-appreciated in its time and now blows your socks off for its creativity, originality and energy.

02/06/2025

I gave a lecture today on an exhibition of one of the greatest choreographers of all time : Alvin Ailey. The discussion ranged from black beauty, ingenuity and excellence to his ability to incorporate West African rhythmic beats, European ballet, shimmering Brazilian religious dances, Haitian voudou concepts , blues, soul, jazz, black Baptist Church, modern dance, and themes of struggle, revelation, strength, sacrifice, joy and triumph into dance. As a long time fan of Alvin's Ailey's immense gift to the world it was a privilege to share this exhibit with clients.

02/04/2025

The Old Masters sale preview exhibition at Christie's. Absolutely nothing like the masters. It was a morning of pure indulgence.

02/03/2025

My work today was to look at fabulous art at the Whitney. When I needed a break I would pop out to the terrace to soak in a little sun and look at a different kind of art. What an interesting designed world we live in.

01/23/2025

I'm having fun giving tours of the Kafka show at the Morgan. His stories are straightforward and yet at the same time totally surreal. Matter of fact about being absurd. He's the PERFECT author to read during this insane time in America... this Kafkaesque nightmare... This is a Warhol image of him that's in the show. I had to read The Trial in high school and have thought of it so many times since especially concerning Guantanamo... Now I find myself returning to him... To find comfort in the fiction of discomfort.... What have you read of Kafka?

01/22/2025

In the new and fresh layout of the American wing of the Met there is a section designated 'Silhouette and Surface' highlighting star pieces of truly beautiful and interesting American furniture of the 18th century. It's all about the gorgeous materials, craftsmanship, and the flow of the lines. Really worth coming to see. I'll include it in my next " favorite things " tour.

01/17/2025

They totally changed the American wing at the Met. It's now done by theme instead of chronology and all these artworks by indigenous , female and black artists have come out of the basement or just got bought. They brought in modern art and impressionist art by Americans and incorporated them into the american story instead of the modern story. It's fabulous. I gave a tour to some of my most long time clients and they were totally fascinated. I am so glad the Met is evolving.

01/13/2025

Last chance to see the exquisite works in the Siena show. All the works truly radiate beauty and sincerity and every tour I've given of the show felt special.

12/28/2024

My whole heart many times over. The couple that asked me to marry them because we were so close came all the way to CT to celebrate Christmas as a family. That we are.

12/27/2024

What a dreamy little Christmas with my newest additions.

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