{"id":26835,"date":"2025-06-30T10:07:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T10:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/26835\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T10:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T10:07:14","slug":"sketchbook-an-artists-view-of-the-riches-of-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/26835\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketchbook: An Artist\u2019s View of the Riches of New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first came to New York when I was twenty-four. I didn\u2019t know anybody, which was scary, but that came with a perk: the city belonged to me alone. I soon discovered that drawing was a useless medium to reproduce its dizzying level of detail. But here\u2019s what I found drawing can do: it can convey the rhythm and texture of New York. It can capture the disorienting, intoxicating experience of stepping out of Grand Central Terminal, or of being in downtown Brooklyn on a dark, hard February day, or of walking through the Lower East Side with dozens of layers of the city\u2019s history visible simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>Times Square.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I first came to New York when I was twenty-four. I didn\u2019t know anybody, which was scary, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,8936,4180,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,23398,23397,23399,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-26835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-inverted","tag-magazine","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-onecolumnnarrow","tag-sketchbook","tag-splitscreenimagerightfullbleed","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}