A friend can become one’s gateway into a foreign world of art

Evidence

In my youthful arrogance and ignorance, I admit I was not the best supportive friend, but our friendship grew in spite of our differences. You might say Roberto became my ambassador to the world of fine art. Growing up in Jersey, all I knew of culture was the stuff they put in yogurt. … At first it was painful, as Roberto dragged me to every gallery and museum from California to New York, and then later from Rome to Paris, giving me my art history lessons. I have photos of me passing out from art exhaustion on very rare and precious art installations. I was almost thrown out of the Getty Villa for resting on a roped-off antique velvet love seat. But soon I began to see art through his eyes. — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 205

Categorization

• CANDY: The line ‘all I knew of culture was the stuff they put in yogurt’ plus being nearly thrown out of the Getty Villa for sitting on roped-off antique furniture are bright, tweetable moments.
• XREF: connects to: A rising friend’s career arc can tow an artist along into opportunities — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs: A Guide to Making It in Show…, 254; Foreign cultural immersion is widely held to stimulate artistic creativity — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2219; Vicarious cross-cultural learning may substitute for lived foreign experience to aid creativity. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2245 (+2 more)

Related

• Foreign cultural immersion is widely held to stimulate artistic creativity (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• A rising friend’s career arc can tow an artist along into opportunities #expands (0.85) — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 254
• Foreign cultural immersion is widely held to stimulate artistic creativity #expands (0.80) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2219
• Landscape beings raise a person into their sense of place and world #corroborates (0.75) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 83
• Vicarious cross-cultural learning may substitute for lived foreign experience to aid creativity. #qualifies (0.72) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2245
• Shared journeys among strangers create the sense of an imagined community #expands (0.72) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 223