8/16/2013

Barbara Hepworth Museum - St Ives

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The Barbara Hepworth Museum & Sculpture Garden is one of the highlights of St Ives.  Makutu The former studio of the renowned Br...
8/13/2013

St Michael's Mount - Cornwall

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During our visit to Cornwall in July we went to see  St. Michael's Mount ,  a tidal island, close to the Cornish town of Marazion , Corn...
8/12/2013

Experimentation is our duty! (Alexander Rodchenko)

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In July, I went to see the  Alexander Rodchenko exhibit in Vienna’s Westlicht photo- and camera gallery.  The collection was quite imp...
6/01/2013

Clouds in Vienna

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"I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but ...
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2/06/2013

Dan Flavin: Situations

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Saw the exhibit (in January) at Vienna's Mumok of US artist Dan Flavin "Lights". Steve Morse, who had managed Dan Flavin...
3/08/2012

Anselm Kiefer - Only with wind with time and with sound

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I discovered (and blogged about ) Anselm Kiefer , born on 8 March, 1945, one of the most significant artists of our time, more than three y...
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2/10/2012

On Gerhard Richter's 80th Birthday

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It was Gerhard Richter’s 80 birthday yesterday, surely an occasion to bring into mind one of the world's finest and most interesting ar...
2/06/2012

The joy of books

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En-joy! It's also interesting to read a few explaining words here .
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1/08/2012

Bureaucratics

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Jan Banning made a photographic study of the culture, rituals and symbols of state civil administrations and its servants in eight countrie...
1/05/2012

Thomas Ruff - Stellar Landscapes

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Saw the impressing photo-exhbition "Stellar Landscapes" by one of Germany's best-known photographers, Thomas Ruff in Muenster...
1/03/2012

The Shapes of Stories

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I blogged twice about Kurt Vonnegut , both times on the occasion of his death in 2007 (links below). Today I came across a video in which ...
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11/19/2011

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst (HCB)

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"In a world that is buckling under the weight of profit-making, that is overrun by the destructive sirens of Techno-science and the pow...
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8/27/2011

The first woman to conquer 14 peaks without oxygen

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On August 23, 2011, the Austrian Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner reached the summit of K2 and thus became the first woman to summit all 14 of the wo...
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8/20/2011

Mountains

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As a person who grew up having a panorama of at least three parts of the Alps (the Karavanke , the Julian Alps , and the Carnian Alps as an ...
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8/19/2011

Herm

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In addition to Jersey , Guernsey and Alderney , the bigger Channel Islands, there are some smaller ones, Sark , as mentioned yesterda...
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8/18/2011

Mervyn Peake

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I came into contact with the works of Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) in the Guernsey Museum and Art Gallery , almost exactly on his centenary. ...
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