If you read the website fine print closely enough and make a few phone calls, then you might be able to weasel your way into the drawing study room of the Met museum for a 2 hour session as I somehow did yesterday. Sitting in an old and abused wooden desk in a corner in an office next to equally ill treated filing cabinets felt like being in detention. The principal difference being that if you open those cabinets which are arranged by nationality and name, and hand a card to the librarian, then a masterwork has to join you in time-out, so that you can think about what you wish-you-had-done.
Here is a sample menu:
Study for the Libyan Sibyl- Michelangelo Buonarotti
Study of a woman- P.P. Prud'hon
Hand ecorche- Rubens
Nude study- Rafael Sanzio
Nativity study- Leonardo da Vinci
St. Remy hallway- Vincent van Gogh
I think I learned something.
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