“Nude Descending a Wednesday One-Liner”

Man to date, seriously, looking at service door next to Jackson Pollock's painting: It looks like a door or something.

–MoMA, 4th Floor

Overheard by: Eric Arévalo

Man to girlfriend: We have a lot of differences! When I say "Rubens" you think of the painter, and I think of a sandwich!

–Riverside Park

Overheard by: Greer Feick

Man to security guard: Excuse me, could you tell me where I can find the Mona Lisa?

–The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Asian tween gal, in breathless monologue to boy pal: So you know I want to be an anime artist. But maybe I'll have to study cartooning. Which isn't anime, but anyway. Maybe I'll have to go to art school. Because you know what they say about anime, it comes from, you know, art…

–Uptown 1 Train

Overheard by: Susan Volchok

Woman to boyfriend, in reference to Willem de Kooning's "Woman, I": It's like neon PMS.

–MoMA, 4th Floor

Overheard by: Eric Arevalo