The Nasher Sculpture Center has been the centerpiece of the Dallas art scene for a few years now. Well, at least in my opinion. The other large Dallas art museum is the Dallas Museum of Art. The DMA is in an old building, architecturally uninteresting and seems to have faded from its glory days when …
Art & Museums
Why is Montsec (in Catalonia) such a spectacular place for stargazing in Spain? And what makes this astronomy park & museum so interesting? Read on!
Barcelona, Potsdam and Brighton are all home to some important and extensive Orientalism & Chinoiserie architecture around Europe.
Near Stuttgart, the Ritter Sport chocolate factory has a museum dedicated entirely to squares. Museum Ritter embraces the Ritter square marketing in a fun way.
One of my favorite photography galleries in Berlin is the C/O gallery. While they’ve hosted interesting photography exhibits in the past, one of my favorite reasons for visiting the photo gallery is the building itself. The C/O gallery is currently housed in the old Royal Post Office (Postfuhramt) building. The building, on a prominent corner …
In my continued quest to find inspiration, yesterday I visited the Hamburger Bahnhof museum. The museum (in an old train station) exhibits mostly contemporary art but I hadn’t yet visited despite living in Berlin for who knows how long…. I was most interested in the temporary exhibit featuring work by the Japanese composer & visual …
When I visited Vienna last summer, besides almost immediately noticing how pretty and “put-together” the city appeared, I quickly became fascinated with all the posters advertising festivals, stores, exhibits and other miscellany around town. In a city renowned for its art, design & creative culture, the posters stood out quite a bit. One in particular …
Inside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art A view inside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. I spent over four months living in Tel Aviv, not far from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, actually. Like most things in Tel Aviv, it’s not the cheapest (TLV living expenses are on par with European prices), but …
Berlin has its fair share of quirky museums and other things, but the Sugar Museum must be near the top. Seriously. A museum all about sugar. Sugar!
I recently visited the Museum für Film und Fernsehen (Museum of Film & Television) here in Berlin. The museum covers a massive range of topics on the history of cinema in Germany. I particularly enjoyed parts from the permanent exhibit about German cinema during Nazi rule (the “National Socialist State”). I found one story in …