Welcome to our very first Brunch together! I could not be more delighted to have you at the table.
On today’s menu we have the kick-off to a new weekly series exclusive to Brunch at Sera’s: my top art picks, starting with artistsposters.com, the source of 80% of my art and a notoriously difficult website to navigate (which is why I’ve done it for you). These recommendations are divided into three different weight classes (aka, up to you to decide how much money you’re willing to spend — or how much you need to save up). I’ve also included a category on art I don’t like — huge gasp from the audience!
Now that there’s a nice crisp in the air, you’ll also find my fall wishlist and a few thoughts on what I’m grateful for.
Kismet
I recently turned 31 and in (as non-fatalistic a way as possible) it’s encouraged me to take stock of my life*. *This is quite possibly due to the fact that I got stung by a wasp (for the first time ever) on my 31st birthday, to which I developed a delayed anaphylactic reaction, and now, somewhat comically, suddenly have to tote an EpiPen around so that I don’t spontaneously combust again.
My favorite quality about myself is how optimistic I am which, in turn, has made me pretty resilient. I think this is because at some point in my 20s in New York City, I started to believe that everything that happened to me (good or bad) was just a sign from the universe. I love the word “kismet” because it has the same meaning in Turkish and English — fate. I think of it as a beautiful tool to keep rejection from swallowing you whole and instead allows you to fully embrace re-direction. I always tell myself when I get a piece of disappointing news, that if it’s truly meant for me, it will find me. For example, I’ve had it happen when I didn’t get an apartment I had applied for in the Lower East Side of Manhattan that I thought was my dream home (I instead ended up taking a room in an apartment in Gramercy that led to me meeting one of my best friends), and when I didn’t get the job I thought I desperately wanted (I don’t remember the name anymore, but the company ended up going bankrupt six months later — lol).
I’ve even had kismet kick in with my current apartment, my true dream home, where I’ve been lucky enough to live for the past three years. My landlord initially gave it to someone else, and I was in Potsdam, visiting Sansoucci for the first time when I found out. I was totally crushed, but I didn’t want it to ruin my day, and I reminded myself that if it was actually meant to be, it would certainly find its way back to me. 48 hours later, I got a text from my landlord telling me that if I still wanted it, it was all mine.
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Art of the week
For this inaugural brunch, it seems only right that I do a deep dive on my favorite website and my almost exclusive art dealer — the one, the only, artistsposters.com. This is, as surely all Brunch readers have heard from me ad nauseam via my many forms of social media, the source of my “Nehmen Sie Dada Ernst, es lohnt sich”(“take Dada seriously, it’s worth it”) gun poster.
There is no single e-commerce site more valuable to me than artistsposters.com, which, despite the somewhat spammy sounding name, is actually a very real gallery based in Cologne, Germany.
And no, I do not get any kickback from sharing these links (can’t say it wouldn’t be cool if I did, though).
To kick off this weekly series, here are my top eight picks for art under 50 Euros:
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