Birding While Arting July 13, 2025
Posted by judylobo in Zoo.Tags: animals, art, Art exhibit, Arting, birding, Birds, NYC, photography, wildlife
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My friend Donald and I have been ‘arting’ about once a week in the museums and galleries of NYC for the past 18 months. I thought I had made up the word ‘arting’ but recently searched its roots. It turns out the term ‘arting’ is not a standard English word, but it is sometimes used to refer to the act of creating art, or the process of using art to understand oneself and the world. Anyhow, it’s a good word and serves our purposes. From the beginning, whenever I saw a bird in a work of art, I would text that photo to one of my bird nerd friends. There is never any context in the text – I just send it to her. Sometimes she responds and other times she laughingly asks if I can buy it for her. So today’s montage features just a small number of these past texts. This was a fun montage to put together. Hope you enjoy these beautiful birds.
While at the Zoo 
🦜🦩🦤🐓🦢🦃🪿🐣🐧❤️
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Absolutely loved this montage! I also enjoy both ‘arting’ and birding, and I’m also always looking for birds in art; in fact, at the de Kooning exhibit at Gagosian Gallery on Thursday, Steve and I found ‘birds’ in two paintings. Not really, of course, but once we saw them, we couldn’t unsee them. A really fun montage — thanks!
Christina
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Glad you also like birding and arting. FUN!
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these are great … especially love the last one (!). forwarding (as have in the past) to two birder friends — my sister-in-law and her sister.
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Thanks Mark
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Great pics Judy. I got a great word from you. “Zoocation” Just love it. So glad Mark and I got to go on many zoocations.
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Thanks Deb
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