Fine Arts

Love and Art Museums

The artistic process mirrors the experience of falling in love, and each work reflects a greater truth about the human experience.
Love and Art Museums
Many European cities preserve layers of history in their architecture, providing greater context and beauty for the artwork housed in these buildings. Vlad G/Shutterstock
Walker Larson
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My love for art museums may have something to do with the fact that I fell in love in an art museum. Not only was an art museum the site of one of the first dates with my now-wife; it was also the place where I recognized that this woman had captured a part of me that I couldn’t get back even if I wanted to.

Falling in love is a little like an avalanche. There’s a long, slow buildup, a softening, a thawing, a stirring under a seemingly stable surface. Then, all at once, one is swept away.

Walker Larson
Walker Larson
Author
Before becoming a freelance journalist and culture writer, Walker Larson taught literature and history at a private academy in Wisconsin, where he resides with his wife and daughter. He holds a master’s in English literature and language, and his writing has appeared in The Hemingway Review, Intellectual Takeout, and his Substack, The Hazelnut. He is also the author of two novels, “Hologram” and “Song of Spheres.”