tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51759429440240831932024-03-05T01:50:08.064-05:00Xtreme Art TouristXtreme Art Touristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575440062797655355noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175942944024083193.post-81687879226928440272020-02-20T11:36:00.000-05:002020-02-20T11:36:17.589-05:00Myanmar 2019Last Fall, I took a trip to a different corner of the world. Beginning in Myanmar, I also visited Singapore, Sydney, Honolulu, and San Diego. Some stops were more Art-oriented than others, but I will try to take you through the whole trip. a piece at a time.<br />
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<u><b>Myanmar</b></u>, formerly known as Burma, stretches from the Andaman Sea in the south, well up into China in the north, sandwiched between Thailand and India. From 1962 to 1988 the country was isolated from the rest of the world by its dictator, and the infrastructure suffered badly. You can see abandoned buildings from the British occupation wherever you go. But first, lets look at some Art in the airport at San Francisco:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Thinking of Balmy Alley</i> by <b>Rigo</b>, 1999</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Sanctuary </i>by <b>Juana Alicia</b> and <b>Emmanuel Montoya</b>, 2000</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Mondrian Meets the Beatles </i>by <b>Kota Ezawa</b>, 2017</td></tr>
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A layover in Kunming, China, did not yield any Art, but the terminal structure was certainly artistic.<br />
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I landed in <b>Yangon</b>, the capital and largest city. That said, it didn't feel all that big. I explored mostly by foot, but also took rides in taxis, which were inexpensive, as well as bicycles with small sidecars, because some of the streets get jammed with food stalls and pedestrian traffic. No Art museums, I let the city and the people provide the pictures.<br />
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I should mention that the above scenes are not from a market. These are people doing their thing wherever they can, but they do congregate. They say you should see Shewdagong Pagoda last, because it is so beautiful. But it was the first Sunday of <i>Thadingyu</i>t (Festival of Lights), so there were lots of families at the enormous complex filled with stupas. A "stupa" refers to any Buddhist structure which you cannot enter. While a "pagoda" is a temple that can be entered. Finished in the 6th century C.E., this is also the largest pagoda in the country.<br />
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There are seemingly countless Buddhist shrines of all sizes and shapes throughout the city. I could not keep track of them all.<br />
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One day I walked to the bank of the Yangon River, where I found the wholesale banana market, as well as the markets for sugar cane and coconuts. <br />
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Upriver, was the boat depot and fish market.<br />
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I spent a day in <b>Bago</b>, about fifty miles northeast, which has some very nice temples.<br />
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The Hindu temples are few, but much more colorful than the Buddhists'.<br />
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Then I flew to <b>Mandalay</b>, about 400 miles north. A new city, built in 1857 when it became the national capital, it was the last royal capital as the British took over in 1885. It is both the economic center of Upper Myanmar, and the cultural center of the whole country, with the most monks. Yes, monks are everywhere begging from stores, street stalls, pedestrians, and passing cars. But that's what the religion is about, apparently. I found varied scenes around the city. </div>
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And took a day-trip south to visit the world's longest teak bridge in world, a plethora of temples on the other side of the Irrawaddy River, the monks of <b>Amarapura</b>, and <i>Werawsana</i> - the jade temple, which was built with the aid of my driver, who found me the day before on the side of the road in Mandalay. He gave a most excellent tour.<br />
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It takes all day, depending on the water-level, to take the boat from Mandalay down to <b>Old Bagan</b>. A very pleasant day, interrupted by a visit to a pottery shop along the way. While the tourists came to watch them make large water pots on foot-powered equipment, the pots were for use around the country, where you can always find a pot of water, if you are thirsty. They had very little to sell the tourists, except crude little animals.<br />
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Old Bagan is an ancient city and a UNESCO World Heritage site with more than 3,500 religious structures within the 16 square miles. It was still<i> Thadingyut</i> and this was to big weekend. Mostly, everyone goes to their parents and have family get-togethers and light fire-crackers, candles, and sky lanterns. The old temples seemed to swarm with visitors.<br />
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And then it was time to leave Myanmar. Next stop: Singapore.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Haymaking </i>by <b>Kazimir Malevich</b>, 1928-29</td></tr>
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About an hour south of Eindhoven, and just east of MAASTRICHT, is the <u><i>Ronald McDonald House</i></u> in the town of VALKENBURG AAN DE GEUL. This is significant because it was designed by <b>Hundertwasser</b> and completed in 2007, seven years after his passing. Another masterpiece.<br />
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No interest in the show at the <u><i>Bonnefanten museum</i></u>, so with no other art attraction in Maastricht, we opted to walk around.<br />
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Other side trips included one to TILBURG, where we found the <u><i>Museum de Pont</i></u>, a former factory space with lots of small rooms with doors, lots of big open space, lots of twists and turns. And contemporary art.<br />
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Examples by <b>Ai Weiwei</b> and <b>Howard Hodgkin</b>, gave the collection some international appeal.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Grapes 2010</i> by <b>Ai Weiwei</b>, 2010.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Learning about Russian Music </i>by <b>Howard Hodgkin</b>, 1999</td></tr>
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<b>Vincent van Gogh </b>lived in Tilburg from 1863-66, where he went to school and was allegedly taught to paint. The house is marked and there is a special couch outside.<br />
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And then there was Eindhoven. A vibrant city with Art all around. Well, Art and other things:<br />
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Then we began our time in Belgium, beginning with a stay outside ATH, in Arbre. Walking around Ath, an ancient city surrounded by a square moat, we discovered <i>Triennale de l'Art et du Végétal</i>. This was the fourth edition of a show featuring art installations by eleven artists utilizing mostly natural materials all over the city. Such as:<br />
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Side trips included one to the hippodrome outside MONS, where we saw a lot of jumping.<br />
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And a visit to LESSINES, which is not only the birthplace of <b>René Magritte,</b><br />
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There was some sort of Art show going on involving a group of artists called "Less'Art." We visited a few venues and Marie made some purchases.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">by <b>Magali Rousseau</b></td></tr>
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And then there was this fabulous band playing in the doorway of <u><i>Centre Culturel René Magritte</i></u>.<br />
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And a little bit more of Lessines:<br />
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We were in GHENT on a day filled with festivals, most of which we could not find. But it was Saturday, so there were Bachelorettes and the Belgian team was playing for third place in the <i>World Cup</i>. Here are a few shots:<br />
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We visited the <u><i>Fondation Folon</i></u> in LA HULPE. Belgian artist <b>Jean-Michel Folon</b> installed over five hundred art works in the <i>Ferme du Château de La Hulpe</i>, just twenty minutes outside Brussels. Folon opened the renovated 1833 farmhouse as a museum in 2000, five years before he died.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Symbol</i> by <b>Folon</b>, 1988</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>L'Homme Qui Plantait</i> <i>des Arbres </i>by <b>Folon</b>, 1982</td></tr>
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And we dropped in at the <u><i>Hergé Museum</i></u> in OTTIGNEIES-LOOUYAIN-LA-NEUVE. <b>Georges Prosper Remi</b>, known by the pen name Hergé created the universally popular <i>The Adventures of Tintin</i> and the museum is a delight.<br />
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We ventured up to BRUGES to see the Triennial (May 5 - Sept 16). The theme:<i> Liquid City</i>. Most pieces, which were largely architectural, were in, on, or next to the canals. We did our best to find them all:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Infinity </i>by <b>Peter van Dressche Atelier4</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Brug (The Kissing Bridge</i>) by<b> Jaroslaw Kozakie</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Selgascano Pavilion </i> by <b>Selgascano</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Bloom</i> by <b>Bloom Games</b>, 2012.</td></tr>
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Our base of operations moved to a farm compound in a field in POTTES. I should say "former" farm, because although there are donkeys residing there, in addition to the main house, there are now a music studio, a stage for performance, a forge with two anvils, a clay studio with two wheels, and the donkeys are "mini." I could go on and on about <u><i>Ferme du Ruisseau</i></u>, but this is an Art blog. I will say that, together with its proximity to the River Scheldt and the bike paths on either side, this was a most extraordinary stay.<br />
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We visited the city of TOURNAI the first few days we were there. Less than twenty kilometers south of the farm (half-hour by car, one hour by bicycle), we found this city of about 77,000 fascinating.<br />
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Known as <i>Tornacum</i>, in Roman times, it is also called DORNIC by Belgium's Flemish residents. The Scheldt runs right through its center.
Their five-spired cathedral is it's most prestigious building. Construction on <u><i>Notre Dame of Tournai</i></u> began in 1146, and they're still working on it. I might suggest that the best building is the <u><i>Musée des Beaux-Arts</i></u> which was designed by famous Art-Nouveau architect, <b>Victor Horta</b>.<br />
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Regardless, there are several other museums, and lots of fun buildings, as well as generous pedestrian areas leading to the riverfront and its gothic gate. And look as hard as we may, a piece of litter was not to be found on any street. Let us begin with the <i>Musée des Beaux-Arts</i>. Since it was 1928 when the museum opened, Horta had shifted his focus from Art-Nouveau and the design represents a transition to Art Deco. The only museum he ever designed, Horta died just a few months later. Here are a few shots from our visit:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Argenteuil</i> by <b>Edouard Manet</b>, 1874</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Jeune femme accoudee (Marie Valette, amie du peintre) by Louis Anquetin, 1890</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Oliviers a Montmajour</i> by <b>Vincent Van Gogh</b>, 1888</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <i>La greve du bas butin a Honfleur (Marine)</i> by <b>George Seurat</b>, 1886</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Portrait feminin</i> by <b>Armand Rassenfosse</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i> La dame en gris</i> by <b>Jean Winance</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Perimele (Ondine on la nymphe de Capri) by Leonce Legendre, 1864</td></tr>
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Outside we found a statue honoring local painter <b>Paul Gallait</b> and later found one dedicated to Tournai-resident <b>Rogier Van Der Weyden</b>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Vieux Marché aux Poteries - monument à Roger de le Pasture dit "Van der Weyden</i>" by <b>Marcel Wolfers</b>, 1936</td></tr>
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We were in Tournai for <i>Belgium National Day</i> (21 July) and celebrated with the locals.<br />
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And we got <i>Le Clovis</i>, a local spicy cake named for the first king of the Franks. <u><i>Le Quenoy</i></u> was recommended as a good place to get one. The shop was beautifully Nouveau and very near the train station.<br />
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Across the river from Pottes, in SPIERE-HELKIJN they celebrate the arts with <i>Kunstzomer in de Leiestreek</i>, four months of arts activities around the area. One venue, that day, was an old pumphouse and facility for the old (1935) swimming pool overlooking the river, that had been recently fixed up for a show of art by <b>Carlos Cauluwier</b>.<br />
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Next to it was the ruin of the huge public swimming pool where there was an installation.<br />
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On the other side of the village is <i>Kunstkerk Bossuit</i>, an arts venue born from an old church. Without the roof or windows. The design of the terrazzo floor recalls the church that was destroyed during the war. The space is used for a variety of events. Black & white photo enlargements by <b>Tom Linsteron</b> were hung on the exposed walls for us to see.<br />
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Back at the ferme, Anne-Mie (our hostess) threw a couple of plates in her studio so that Marie could paint on them the following day.<br />
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We went to the Belgian shore at MIDDELKERK, where we found a few pieces of sculpture:
The is <u><i>Beeldenparc Beaufort</i></u> (Beaufort Sculpture Park) which, in 2018, celebrated its sixth edition with sculptures all around the region.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>I can hear it </i>by <b>Ivars Drulle</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Caterpillar 5bis </i>by <b>Wim Delvoye</b>, 2004</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Olnetop </i>by <b>Nick Ervinck</b></td></tr>
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And just down the coast in OOSTDUINKERKE watched men trawl for shrimp from the backs of enormous Belgian draft horses, as well as women doing the same but while walking through the surf on their own two feet.
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We drove to TOURCOING in search of the <u><i>Muba-Eugene Leroy Museum</i></u>, which, unfortunately, was closed for three months to set up new show. So we continued on to BETHUNE, over the border in France.
A woman there told me that, with the temps nearing 100 degrees, it was the hottest since 1943. And there wasn't much to see, besides the Art-Deco <u><i>Grand-Place</i></u> which was rebuilt in 1923 after it was completely destroyed by German bombing during WWI. The Belfry was about all that remained.<br />
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Similarly, when <u><i>Saint Vaast</i></u>'s was rebuilt in the twenties, stylish mosaics were included.<br />
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We returned to France to explore LILLE and found a free parking space across the street from the <u><i>Palais des Beaux-Art</i></u>s. A neat old place, admission was just over four euros for both of us. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Portrait of a Woman</i> by <b>Paolo Caliari, dit Veronese</b>, 1560-1565</td></tr>
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One of the first art museums built in France, under Napoleon, the Palais is one of the largest in the country. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Vanite</i> by <b>Alfred Agache</b>, 1890</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i> Les Vaches </i>by<b> Vincent Van Gogh</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i> Le Silence </i>by<b> Odilon Redon</b>, c 1895-1900</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Dans l'atelier, la pose du modele</i> by <b>Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Berthe Morisot a l'eventail</i> by <b>Edouard Manet</b>, 1874.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>C'est n'etait pas mon temps...</i> by de <b>Patricia Zurini</b></td></tr>
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<b>LaM</b> is the <u><i>Musée d'art moderne d'art contemporain et d'art brut</i></u>. It began as the collection of Roger Dutilleul which was then added to by his nephew and heir, leading to the current museum. Outside are a few nice sculptures including two by <b>Calder</b> and one we liked which was done by <b>Picasso</b>. <b>Flanagan</b> contributed a horse on a sidewalk and a pair of rabbits (inside museum).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Guillotine pour huit</i> by <b>Alexander Calder</b>, 1963</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Femme aux bras ecartes </i>by <b>Pablo Picasso</b>, 1962</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Between Fiction and Fact</i> by <b>Richard Deacon,</b> 1992</td></tr>
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Inside were a few true paintings of modern art with too many Picasso, lots of Leger,
Braque, and Modig. Fun museum with strange layout that worked (addition designed
by Ms. Manuelle Gautrand) included lots of Brut art, a couple of rooms
of contemporary, and galleries of art from recycled material.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>La Roche-Guyon </i>by <b>Georges Braque</b>, summer 1909</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Le Mecanicien</i> by <b>Fernand Leger</b>, 1918</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i> Femme lippue</i> by <b>Kees van Dongen</b>, 1909</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>La Danse I & 2</i> by <b>Andr<span class="st">é</span> Derain</b>, c 1906</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Nu assis a la chemise </i>by<b> Amedeo Modigliani</b>, 1917</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Boxers</i> by <b>Barry Flanagan</b>, 1985</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Totem women </i><i><span class="st">à <i>tê</i></span>te zoomorphe</i> by<b> Theo Wiesen</b>, 1972-77</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Architecture inachevee</i> <b>by A.C.M.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i> Arm</i><i><span class="st"><i>é</i></span>e des Indes avec </i><i><span class="st"> <i>élép</i></span>hant,</i>c 1976</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">no title by <b>Marie-Rose Lortet</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Site aleatoire avec deux personnages (F77)</i> by <b>Jean Dubuffet</b>, 1982</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Selene</i> by <b>Norbert Treca</b>, 1994.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Field Day 2</i> by<b> Barry Flanagan</b>, 1987</td></tr>
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We enjoyed an adventure in MELDERT-AALST at the <u><i>Belgium Paardenprijskamp</i></u> (translates to Horse Prize Camp). This was a national competition for Belgian draft horses.<br />
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On the abutting field, the <u><i>49th International Pikkeling Festival</i></u> began in the afternoon. There were displays of tractors and other farm equipment, demonstrating artists like lace tatter, basket maker, etc., but we found this charming recreation of harvesting grain in the old days.<br />
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In KORTIJK, in Flanders, they were playing the <u><i>City Game</i></u>, which involved young people of different age groups to interact with artistic installations all around town. Actually it was pretty confusing, but here are a few shots from around town:<br />
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Time to leave our nest in Pottes and head east to SOMME LEUZE, where we had a very nice apartment.<br />
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Our first day trip was to LUXEMBOURG for the street a(rt)nimation festival - "arts de la rue." Not buskers, mostly, but street performers; performance art.<br />
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Then to DINANT, birthplace of Adolf Sax, inventor of the Saxophone:<br />
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In CHARLEROI, we went to the Palais de Beaux Arts. Both an art museum and a concert hall, it seems to more of the later than the former. Above the entry to the concert hall is a set/series of small sculptures that may be by Ossip Zadkine.<br />
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We did some hiking through the beautiful Belgian countryside while looking for sculptures which were part of Les Sentiers d'Art.
Begun two years ago with a route featuring 20 sculptures that adopted natural materials, mostly site-oriented in the western part of the district, this year they added 20 more and are planning 20 more for 2019. I wish we had the stamina to hike the whole route, but we were able to see almost all of them by parking our car nearby and hoofing it to the sculptures' sites.<br />
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Durbuy claimed to be the "Smallest City in the World" but I seriously doubt it, as there were so many stone buildings filled with restaurants and shops. There was also the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Durbuy which was small and had only one show featuring two locally-connected artists.<br />
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LIEGE is an interesting city. Split by the River Meuse, it is the birthplace of Charlemagne, the Boulette (a large meatball featuring Sirop de Liège), and a superior waffle to the Brussels-style.<br />
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La Boverie is a modern art museum located on the southern end of the island in the middle of the Meuse. It began as a modern art museum which merged with the fine art museum which then merged with the local museum, all the while occupying the building at the tip of the island which was originally the fine arts building for the 1905 International Exposition. Lots of Magritte:<br />
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In other non-Art related adventures, we spent a day at the 35th Journée des Confréries at the Maredsous Abbaye near DENEE, northwest of Dinant. There were nearly 100 gastronomic brotherhoods each offering its typical specialty based on ancestral recipes and local products. And the Abbaye is no longer an abbey, but home of Maredsous brewery.<br />
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We happened upon one of these gatherings years ago in Bidart, just outside Biarritz, France, though it was much smaller. This was much different. Unlike our previous encounter that was exclusively speeches and marching into the church, here we found tent after tent of food and drink being offered by the various confréries - brotherhoods with common interests in some kind of food or drink, such as beer or cheese or escargot.<br />
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Returned to Liège for "Fetons le 15 Aout," What began as a celebration honoring Mary's Ascension is mostly about drinking "peket," the local firewater made from juniper berries, like gin.<br />
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There were some nice "géants" in the parade - a cross between a giant puppet and a float with men inside. Here are some shots from the day:
After eating our Boulette and frites, we had time to find Art Nouveau around town:<br />
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Another day we visited NAMUR and, after taking pictures of Bayard and the Four Sons of Aymon by Oliver Strebelle (1957) which overlooks the Meuse and the statue of the Namur Stilt Jousters by Guy Leclercq (1999), we stopped in at the Musée de Félicien Rops (1833-98).<br />
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We found two floors and several rooms of Rops paintings, drawings, photos, etc. Seemed pretty well done. Plenty of skeletons and other horrid things. Plenty of near-porn. Even a few landscapes. Old Felicien was a fairly strange guy.<br />
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Time to move on, back to Ath. Ath is known as the "City of Géants," as their giants, who filled the streets for La Ducasse. The giants are bigger and offer more artistic quality, we thought.<br />
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And so we say "au revoir" to Wallonia and Belgium Xtreme Art Touristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575440062797655355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175942944024083193.post-71766436349088916312018-11-24T07:55:00.000-05:002018-11-25T04:24:45.163-05:00Europe 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our European adventures of 2018 were not designed for their artistic opportunities, but during our three-month long journey in <u>The Netherlands</u>, <u>France</u>, <u>Croatia</u>, and <u>Belgium</u>, we found an interesting variety of Art, nonetheless. Because, however, it was such a long trip, I will try to be brief and keep this mainly about the Art we saw. Here is my best attempt to present it to you.<br />
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We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to DEN HAAG - The Hague, in The Netherlands. Car-free for a week, we were able to see much of the Art the city had to offer. Let's start with sculpture:
The Sculpture Gallery is a display of sculptures, placed on pedestals, placed every twenty-five meters in the pedestrian area of the <u><i>Grote Markstraat</i></u>, <u><i>Kalvermarkt</i></u> and <u><i>Spui</i></u>. Forty Dutch sculptors have been or will be invited to produce a sculpture for this area. The pedestal creates a bond, both literally and figuratively, between the urban environment and sculpture. As each artist is required to conform to the same dimensions, visual coherence is maintained within the diversity of solutions on an urban scale. In 2011 artist <b>Andre Kruysen</b> took over as curator of the sculpture gallery. Here are a few of them:<br />
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The timing of our visit was dictated by the <u><i>World Championship Sand Sculpting</i></u> competition which was held in Den Haag for the first time. We got to the site on <u><i>Lange Voorhout</i></u> just as the forms were being removed from the giant piles of damp river-sand, and the nine artists began their sculptures.<br />
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Then we visited just about every day after to check up on their progress: <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Max Gazendam</b>,The Netherlands</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Thomas Koet</b>, U.S.A.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Katsu Chaen</b>, Japan</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Baldrick Buckle</b>, U.K.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Benjamin Probanza</b>, Mexico</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Ilya Filimonstsev</b>, Russia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>JOOng Tan</b>, Singapore</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Fergus Mulvany</b>, Ireland</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Radovan Zivny</b>, Czech Republic.</td></tr>
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The <u><i>Gemeentemuseum</i></u> is a modern palace of Art. The Art Deco building opened on 29 May 1935. During the war, the Germans used it for a warehouse, returning to its original purpose in 1946.<br />
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With 160,000 works of art, the Gemeentemuseum is one of Europe’s biggest art museums. In addition to collections of international modern and contemporary art, with more than 300 works by <b>Piet Mondrian</b>, this is the only museum where Mondrian’s life and progress towards abstract art unfold before your eyes. Here are a few:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Poppyfield</i> by <b>Vincent Van Gogh</b>, 1890</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Self portrait with hat and veil </i>by <b>Paula Modersohn-Becker</b>, 1906-07</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Twee Aronskelken </i>by <b>Piet Mondriaan</b>, 1918</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Oannes </i>by <b>Odilon Redon</b>, c 1905</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Czardas Dancers </i>by <b>Ernst Ludwig Kirchner</b>, 1908-20</td></tr>
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And while there are many other museums of Art in Den Haag from the <u><i>Mauritschuis Royal Picture Gallery</i></u><i> </i>to the <u><i>Escher Museum</i></u>, we chose to find the more obscure. Such as this jewel near the sea, just outside the city limits, in WASSENAAR.
We took a bus to the end of the line, then followed someone who knew where he was going, as we crossed the divided roadway, entering a coastal park of sand dunes and scrub pines. Eventually we found ourselves lost until a woman on a bicycle stopped to help. But she didn't know the directions, so we continued walking through the wild park. Soon, however, the woman, now with her partner, found us, insisted that I ride her bike with Marie on the back, while she jumped on her friend's bike and he led the way to the museum. She even left her purse in the basket of the bike she lent me.<br />
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We found <u><i>Museum Voorlinden</i></u> not out among the dunes, but in an elegant, pastoral setting. (After sharing a Coke, Monique and Peer returned to their bikes and went on their way, having been to the museum not so long ago.)
Founded by collector Joop van Caldenborgh on a forty-acre estate, the museum was opened in 2016 by King Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands. The collections are contemporary, but likeable.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Jonge Vrouw met Sigaret</i> by <b>Jan Sluijters</b>, 1929.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patrons enjoying <i>Dawn</i> by <b>John DeAndrea</b>, 1985</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Coca Cola Vase</i> by <b>Ai Wei Wei</b>, 2015</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Open Ended</i> by <b>Richard Serra</b>, 2007-8</td></tr>
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The grounds were gorgeous and natural.<br />
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Also in Wassenaar is <u><i>Renbaan Duindigt</i></u> where we caught a few races. Flats and harness.<br />
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The city of Den Haag also includes the seashore neighborhood of SCHEVENINGEN where, in addition to the <b>Tom Otterness</b> sculptures along the boardwalk:<br />
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and the artworks displayed in the dunes:<br />
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We find the <u><i>Museum Beelen aan Zee</i></u>, the only Dutch museum of contemporary sculpture. Collectors Theo and Lida Scholten opened the museum in 1994 and the collections now contain more than 2,000 works of art.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <i>T<span class="st">ê</span>te de femme</i> by <b>Ossip Zadkine</b>, 1922</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Boer met blauwe muts </i>by <b>Karel Appel</b>, 1975</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Kopf I</i> by <b>Martin Matschinsky</b>, 1974</td></tr>
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While they recently had a show of <b>Anish Kapoor</b>, we saw <b>Johan Creten</b>'s <i>Naked Roots</i> display.
While there, we ran into Monique and Peer, also enjoying the museum.<br />
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Another interesting museum we found down by the shore was the <u><i>Panorama Mesdag</i></u>, not really a museum after all. But a tourist attraction painted by <b>Hendrik Willem Mesdag</b> in 1881. It is a 360-degree vista of the sea, the dunes and the fishing village of Scheveningen as it was at the time. Now, it is the oldest panorama still at its original location.<br />
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For no extra charge, we got to see the artwork of Mesdag's wife, <b>Sientje Mesdag van Houten</b>.<br />
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She, like her husband, not only received instruction from <b>Willem Roelofs</b> but also from Hendrik’s cousin the professional artist, <b>Laurens Alma-Tadema</b>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <i>Pile of Stones</i> by <b>Hendrik Willem Mesdag</b>, 1868</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Construction of a Breakwater</i> by <b>Jan Giesen</b>, 1926</td></tr>
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We were delighted to find the first-ever <u><i>DuneArt</i></u> festival, where else, but in the dunes. There, after our long trek, we found white tents filled with demonstrating artists creating with a variety of natural media and/or subjects. There were watercolorists, sculptors, textile artists, and many others. Here are a few shots:<br />
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Angeline and Rennie have been friends since their teens, though they each went to a different art school. They were doing this project together.<br />
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There was a special workshop for Seniors held on Friday that we attended and had a good time making decoupage and friends. <br />
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We were being serenaded by a trio of jazz musicians who played very well, but we had to stop making art in order to clap.
Inside the Water Tower itself, was an exhibit of work by the participating artists, some quite nice and fitting the space well. But the space was cold and I was eager to get out.<br />
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Back in the city, another special art event was taking place. Something called <u><i>Festival Holaa!</i></u> Billed as "an intimate, small-scale art festival" there were maps to help find contemporary art in unexpected places. We did a lot of walking all over Den Haag. Some we were able to locate, others we did not. Some were open, some not. Some were good, some much less.<br />
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Among the interesting was one where the door was locked, so Marie rang the bell. Eventually a bare-chested man opened up and explained that they were closed, but he opened up the show for us anyway. Our host, <b>Denis Oudenjijk</b>, is an architect of tiny houses during the day. But here, he explores. Basically, he has this strange long, tall space between two block walls less than three feet wide. He has offered a variety of exhibitions in this space over the years. Now the walls are lined with stick lights around two feet long, red, green, white. Part of the space is inside, some is outside <br />
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Since we had transportation passes, we took advantage. We took a bus to KIJKDUIN and found <b>James Turrell</b>'s <i>Celestial Vault</i>, which he did in 1996. At thirty by forty meters, is was difficult to photograph, so I used an aerial view I found online:<br />
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Took the tram out to the <u><i>Hoek of Holland</i></u>, a piece of Rotterdam jutting out into the North Sea. Some vehicles were lining up for the ferry to England<i>, </i>but we opted for a tour around the harbor:<br />
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We took a train to DELFT, home of <b>Johannes Vermeer.</b> There were no museums that appealed to us, so we opted for a walkabout.
So many other things to point out, such as these couches, which we found wherever we went in The Netherlands.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Het Melkmeisie</i> by <b>Wim T. Schippers</b></td></tr>
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Here are a few more shots from around Den Haag:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Thom Puckey</b>, <i>Thorbecke monument</i>, 2017</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">bike shop</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Toorop Park</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">untitled by <b>Jan Goeting</b>, 1972</td></tr>
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And, finally, the finished sand sculptures:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i> Love Forever</i> by <b>Benjamin Probanza</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>New Dimensions in Beauty</i> by <b>Joong Tan</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Road from Scheveningen</i> by <b>Baldrick Buckle</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Dream caused by the flight of a bee </i>by <b>Ilya Filimonstsev</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Guernica-Picasso Reviewed</i> by <b>Radovan Zivny</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Celebrate Dutch Tolerance </i>by <b>Fergus Mulvany</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Exploring New Dimensions </i>by <b>Thomas Koet</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Past and Future</i> by <b>Max Gazendam</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Bijinga...Japonisme</i> by <b>Katsu Chaen</b></td></tr>
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Next, we flew to BORDEAUX for <u><i>Le Fête du Vin</i></u>. Where the previous festival we attended here heavily involved the big art museums, this year, there was no such relationship and there was either nothing we wished to see in the museums or had already seen the exhibits. But there is always more to see in Bordeaux. For starters, we found another festival called "Chahut" which was explained to us as an unbirthday party for the city. There were all kinds of "events" around the city, in addition to the winefest.<br />
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There was also the <u><i>Bernard Magrez Cultural Institute</i></u>. An historic Château converted to house the institute in the spring of 2011 houses the Institute's artists in residence and exhibitions of modern and contemporary art.
Street Artists were featured throughout the Château and on the grounds:<br />
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Oh yes, the wine festival was just fine. Not as nice as the last one,
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The big attraction, this year, were the Tall Ships:<br />
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After the tall ships departed into the mist, down the Garonne to the sea, we drove our rented car across the river to see the cave drawings of <u><i>Grotte de Pair-non-Pair</i></u>. Our reservation was not until 3:30, so we spent some time in Bourg and dropped into a gallery.<br />
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There were less than a dozen others on our tour, <i><u>Grotte de Pair-non-Pair</u></i> which is good, because the entire cave is only about 20-30 feet deep. The front part of the cave filled in eons ago. This cave was discovered in 1881when a cow's foot got lodged in a hole. It is known for remarkable prehistoric engravings - petroglyphs of horses, ibexes, bovines and mammoths). Dating to between 30,000 and 25,000 B<i>.</i>C.E., they "rank among the most ancient examples of art made by prehistoric" humans.<br />
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Next stop Croatia. The Island of VIR, to be more precise. Less than thirty km up the coast from the city of Zadar. While Vir was a nice place to stay and perhaps watch a World Cup game with the locals, there wasn't much to do on Vir.<br />
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Nearby was NIN, the oldest of Croatian Royal cities, founded in the ninth century B.C.E. It is a round near-island, surrounded by water with a causeway leading to the mainland. There are Roman ruins and old churches.
We discovered a statue of Grgur Ninski by the great Yugoslavian sculptor <b>Ivan Meštrović</b>.
But that was about it for Art. It was the day of the Summer Solstice, so there was a celebration at the <u><i>Church of the Holy Cross</i></u> (9th century C.E.)<br />
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We continued on to ZADAR. Overlooking the Adriatic Sea, it is oldest continuously inhabited city in Croatia. Before crossing over to the old city, we found the <i><u>KvartArt Festival</u></i>. We were surprised to see so few people there and the lack of activities. The Art Market was a half-dozen tables with women artists selling their wares. We were delighted, however to meet some of the ladies and bought a few pieces. <b>Silvijana Dražovic</b> sold us three small pieces for 200 kuna ($31). I later learned that Silvijana, besides being a well-known artist, is a language teacher, politician, tour guide, and has appeared on television as an amateur chef.)<br />
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The sidewalks, like Dubrovnic, are made of marble worn so smooth that kids are always trying to slide on it. There was a show of <b>Warhol</b> that we did not visit opting instead to walk the streets.<br />
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The biggest attraction in ancient Zadar was constructed in 2005. Architect <b>Nikola Bašic</b>'s "Sea Organ" uses the action of the waves to trigger tubes installed under the long marble steps to play musical tones. When a boat came near causing bigger waves, the notes and volume increased.<br />
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We later purchased a cd from <b>Alen Pračić</b> who explained that it starts with a minute of sea organ, then he plays his guitar along with it adding some <i>klapa</i> voices (traditional Dalmatian singing), then finishing with church bells. A very nice recording.<br />
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There were side trips to PAG and SKRADIN, but that's about it for Art in Croatia. Here are a few shots from our stay:<br />
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Xtreme Art Touristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575440062797655355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175942944024083193.post-27593275945752342762017-04-15T11:56:00.002-04:002017-04-15T11:56:23.145-04:00Europe 2017Art et cetera from<u> Amsterdam</u>:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Schrijver en rijksadvocast</i> by <b>Jacob van Lennep</b>, 2006</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">untitled by <b>Michiel Schierbeek</b>, 1986</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">typical Amsterdam, but look closer</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Gold in your mind, gold in your feet</i> by <b>Mirjam Janse</b>, 2004 </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Bruldsjurk</i> by <b>The Kunstenaarscollectief Patchwork.</b> 1994</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>I am at home</i> by <b>Asnate Bockis</b>, 2008</td></tr>
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Art et cetera from <u>Athens</u>:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">at Athens airport, <i>Two Incredible Sitting Black Snowmen</i> by <b>Tom Classen</b>, 2000</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Four Seasons </i>by <b>Rob Birz</b>a, 2000</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">by <b>Mark Hadjipateras</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">art by <b>Georgia Sagri</b>, 2017</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The only Art I found at documenta 14: <i>Naughty Children</i> by <b>Edi Hila</b>, 1970</td></tr>
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The <u>Frissiras Museum of Contemporary European Art</u> was founded in 2000. From the collection of 4,000 pieces from the 2nd half of the 20th century, they put together a show called "New Horizons," part of a series called "The Identities of Others." The was a great quote about finding identity, but I didn't write it down. There was art on every floor, artists from Poland, Moldavia, Greece. Some good, some not so good, but much better than documenta.<br /></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Rich Bitch II</i> (with a dog) by <b>Glowacka Viola</b>, 2014</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Cycle Meeting</i> by <b>Szczekan Ewa</b>, 2012</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Gorilla's Garden</i> by <b>Glowacka Viola</b>, 2016</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>B.P. Jungle</i> by <b>Glowacka Viola</b>, 2016</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another piece of documenta: <i>Food for Thought, Thought for Change</i> by <b>Rasheed Araeen</b>, 2016-17</td></tr>
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One of the first rules of Xtreme Art Tourism is to expect the unexpected. Both good and bad. So as hard as it was to get started early in the morning after Marie’s Retirement Party, and even though we got to<b> Nashville</b> shortly after six, it didn’t take long to discover that the <i>Art Crawl</i> would be taking place the following night. It appears the articles I saw about moving to Friday pertained to last year. We had a little look around before heading out of town, however.<br />
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We arrived in <b>St. Louis</b> on Saturday morning just in time to see the beginning of the <i>VP Parade</i> reach the endpoint.<br />
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The excitement of seeing the 134th annual <i>Parade of the Veiled Prophet</i> quickly wore off as it became evident that while the girls were cute, the floats were old and worn; the units were few (even the Shriner's sent just a couple of mini-cars), and yes the sky threatened and eventually it began to rain lightly, but the crowd was awfully thin for most of the route, which we saw as we walked toward the beginning. I mean they didn't even have the Budweiser Clydesdales so I cannot imagine how they can call this "America's Biggest Birthday Parade." <br />
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It worked out fine for us because we found ourselves at the far end of <u>CityGarden</u> - two blocks of park from 6th to 8th Streets with two dozen works of Art by well-known artists.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>untitled (Rubged Figure)</i> <i> Four Rectangles Oblique IV</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> by <b>Keith Haring</b>, 1987 by <b>George Rickey</b>, 1979</span><br />
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We began the next day at the <u>Mildred Lane Kemper Museum</u> on the campus of <u>Washington University</u>. In what I think is an unusual timeline, the museum was founded in 1831 as the University Art Museum, and later became the City Museum. It grew and moved to Forest Park in 1914 as the new St. Louis Art Museum, borrowing art from University's museum, which then reestablished itself on campus and evolved to the present day facility.<br />
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The collections feature some of everything. Here are two of interest:<br />
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<b>Jackson Pollock</b> without drips and squiggles, and <b>Harriet Hosmer</b> who was a sculptress in 1854. In America! I would also like to take the opportunity to recognize another painter we found there.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Bridge I</i> by <b>Lyonel Feininger</b>, 1913</td></tr>
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When visiting the <u>National Museum of Modern Art</u> at the <u>Pompidou Centre</u> in Paris, many years ago, we found that American painters were represented by a couple of mediocre <b>Georgia O'Keeffe</b>s and a few pieces by <b>Lyonel Feininger</b>. "Who's Lyonel Feininger?" we asked, while seeing a variation in style from child-like to sophisticated. Seemingly unknown in the US, Feininger, though born and died in NYC, lived most of his life in Europe. Berlin specifically, working as an illustrator for both German and American publications. He showed at the <i>Berlin Secession</i> as well as with <i>Der Blaue Reiter</i>, not leaving until Hitler declared his art <i>Degenerate</i>. Fittingly, since there is a strong German heritage in the region, Feininger's Art will be seen in other museums on this trip.<br />
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Due to the invasion of the VP Fair (featuring several stages of entertainment headlined by Eddie Money), access to the <u>St. Louis Art Museum</u> in Forest Park was cut off. But after parking outside of the park (scene of the famous 1904 Fair) and hiking in through the vendors' parking lot, we found our way.<br />
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I have already given the history of this museum, and the collections are extensive. There are a few wonderful Van Goghs and work by other well-known European and American artists, but I would like to highlight their work by <b>Max Beckmann</b>. SLAM, after all, has the largest collection of Beckmann in the world. Perhaps this is due to him teaching at Washington U. after the war. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Sinking of the Titani</i>c by <b>Max Beckmann</b>, 1912-13</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Acrobats</i> by <b>Max Beckmann</b>, 1939</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Fisherwomen</i> by <b>Max Beckmann</b>, 1948</td></tr>
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Our pleasant visit was soon terminated when guards proclaimed that the museum was closing and harshly herded the angry patrons out the doors. There was nothing posted nor previously announced about this early closing. Our guess is that they didn't want the drunk concert-goers to use their bathrooms.<br />
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Sculpture outside included this neat<b> Andy Goldsworthy</b>:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Stone Sea</i> by <b>Andy Goldsworthy</b>, 2012</td></tr>
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There was still time for us to hit the <b>Saint Louis University Museum of Art</b>. Though only established in 2002, SLUMA presents very well with, appropriately, contemporary art.<br />
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On Monday we visited the <u>Missouri Botanical Garden</u> (founded in 1859) and found some Art amongst the blooms:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Walla Walla Onions </i>by <b>Dale Chihuly</b> and <i>Two Girls Dancing</i> by <b>Carl Milles</b>, 1917</td></tr>
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We cruised, with friend Joan, through neighboring <b>Clayton</b> in search of more Art:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Shoe of Shoes</i> by <b>Victoria Fuller</b>, 1999, in front of Brown Shoe Co.</td></tr>
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By the time we got to the <b>Laumeier Sculpture Park</b> it was full on pouring rain. But that didn't stop us. Look who we found!<br />
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Among the Caro, di Suvero, and Borofsky, there were a few pieces by <b>Ernest Trova</b>, a self-taught sculptor who worked as a window-dresser in a local department store. Born in Clayton, he never left the St. Louis area. Here are a couple of his pieces:<br />
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We wound up our St. Louis visit with frozen custard at <u>Ted Drewes</u> (founded 1930). The "concrete" wasn't exactly set on that hot, humid evening, but it was delicious nonetheless.<br />
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Though we did not go, I want to mention that the <u>Pulitzer Foundation</u> has contemporary art, the <u>Museum of Russian Art</u> features religious icons, and the <u>Museum of the Dog</u> is just dogs.<br />
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Tuesday morning and we were off for <b>Kansas City</b> (four hours west) and we went straight to the world-famous <u>Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art</u>. Problem was, they're not open on Monday or Tuesday. We shot some sculpture on the grounds:<br />
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Then we headed over to see another <u>Kemper Museum</u>. This time it was R. Crosby Kemper Jr. and his wife, Mary who provided the collection that became the core of the museum. <u>The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art</u> opened in 1994. <br />
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We had lunch at the museums cafe where we were surrounded by a project by<b> Frederick James Brown</b> entitled <i>The History of Art</i>. And indeed, it looks like he's got it covered with 110 canvases, personally commissioned by Mr. and Mrs. Kemper, interpreting some of Art's greatest works.<br />
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The <i>Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art</i> on the <i>Johnson County Community College</i> in <u>Overland Park, Kansas</u> is the largest in the four-state region. It is also in the top ten nationally for public art on campus.<br />
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The museum opened in 2007. There was an interesting show called <i>Super Indian: Fritz Schoulder 1967-1980 </i>which focused on Schoulder's paintings of that time.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> Indian with Dog</i> by <b>Fritz Scholder</b>, 1972</span></div>
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Art was everywhere, throughout the campus.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Hare and Bell</i> by <b>Barry Flanagan</b>, 1988</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Still Standing</i> by <b>Anthony Gormley</b>, 2000</td></tr>
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JCCC is also dedicated to exhibiting the work of
contemporary Native Americans, and we were able to view several displays thanks to a heads-up from Doreen, a volunteer.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Raven Steals the Moon</i> by<b> Preston Singletary</b>, 2003</td></tr>
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The next day we tried the Nelson-Atkins again. Another institution with an interesting history, a series of bequests at the beginning of the last century led to its opening in 1933. One of the main reasons the NAMA has such outstanding collections is because Nelson's legacy came in land for the museum and cash. There is something by everyone is the best way I can describe what we saw. So many wonderful examples of famous and obscure artists. I chose just a few:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Winged Genie Fertilizing a Date Tree</i>, Nimrud, 884-860 bce</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Pavonia-Jersey City</i> by <b>Reginald Marsh</b>, 1928</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> The Green Domino</i> by <b>Albert Bloch</b>, 1913 <i>Portrait of the Artist's Sister</i> by <b>Thomas Hart Benton</b>, 1913</span><br />
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I included this last painting by THB because he did it when he was 24 and learning to paint in NYC. His sister, Mildred, was studying at Barnard. Albert Bloch exhibited with Der Blaue Reiter.<br />
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After exploring all the galleries of the original beaux-arts/neoclassical building, we entered the concrete world of the Bloch Building (2007). Gallery after gallery of Modern, Classic Contemporary and Neo-Contemporary Art.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> Woman IV</i> by <b>Willem de Kooning</b>, 1952-53 </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> Turin</i> by <b>Franz Kline</b>, 1960</span></td></tr>
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If you look at the other pictures I took, you will see what I mean about something by everyone.<br />
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We checked out the <u>Crossroads Art District</u>, which is about twenty blocks south of downtown. And while I'm sure things are hopping on their First Friday openings, it's pretty much a wasteland during the day. <br />
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Had lunch at <u>Grinders</u>, founded by an artist named Stretch (MFA at VCU in 1990) whose work is pretty nice and around the country. Pizza was thin, but unexciting. And Satchel has nothing to worry about when it comes to wild artistic ambiance, for sure.<br />
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Thursday morning and we were on the road to <u><b>Des Moines, Iowa</b></u> (three hours). We visited the <u>Des Moines Art Center</u>. Established in 1948, the original architect was Eliel Saarinen (father of Eero, designer of the St. Louis Arch). Additions were designed by I.M. Pei (1968) and Richard Meier (1986) who is famous for the Getty Center. The collections are focused on Contemporary:<br />
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<b>Walt Kuhn </b>you may recognize as one of the organizers of the Armory Show. Jawlensky was a member of <i>Der Blaue Reiter</i>.<br />
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There are also a few pieces on the grounds, including work by <b>Henry Moore</b>, <b>Richard Serra</b>, and at least the third copy we've seen of <b>Carl Milles</b>' <i>Man and Pegasus</i>.<br />
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In addition, however, DMAC also runs the <u>John and Mary Pappajohn</u> (no relation to the pizza) <u>Sculpture Park</u>, closer to downtown. There are twenty-eight sculptures over two blocks (much like St. Louis) including Butterworth, Bourgeois, Flanagan, and on and on (<a href="https://goo.gl/photos/4bL9B71KCscNkcYx8"><b>CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE</b>)</a>. Here's another by Haring:</div>
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But I really wondered about this guy.<br />
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We enjoyed a <i>King Pork Tenderloin sandwich</i> at <u>Smitty's</u> (1952):</div>
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and a<i> Peppermint Stick Bar</i> at <u>Bauder's Pharmacy</u> (1916).</div>
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before heading to the track at <u>Prairie Meadows</u>.</div>
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The <u>Anderson Gallery at Drake University</u> was closed for the summer. So we were off in search. The city has online maps of their public art, but we couldn't find much of what was promised. But we did find a few.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Crusoe Umbrella </i>by <b>Claes Oldenburg</b> and <b>Coosje van Bruggen</b>, 1979</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">untitled by <b>James Rosati</b>, 1972,</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A World of Possibilities </i>by <b>Viola Frey</b>, inside 801 Grand Ave </td></tr>
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The <u>Principal Riverwalk</u>:</div>
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And <u>American Enterprise Art Park</u>.<br />
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Then it was time to make tracks for<b> Minneapolis</b> (3.5 hours NE) where we began with the <u>Minneapolis Institute of Art</u>. This Beaux-Arts edifice was designed by the famous architects McKim, Mead and White in 1915. With around 80,000 items, it is one of the largest in the country. Even more than Nelson-Atkins, there are too many wonderful examples of every kind of Art. I cannot even list them all, however, I have chosen a few of the less well-known artists for inclusion here.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Married Life </i>by <b>Roger de la Fresnaye</b>, 1912</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Differential</i> by <b>Manierre Dawson</b>, 1910</td></tr>
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Often referred to as the<i> First American Abstractionist</i>, <b>Maniere Dawson</b> was working for a Chicago architectural firm when he took his only trip to Europe in 1910. As you can see from the above picture, that while he may have been influenced by all he saw (including a soiree at the Steins) he had an original vision. Upon return to the US, he met <b>Arthur B. Davies</b> and was invited to hang a painting in the Armory Show. Dawson, however, thought he had nothing worthy and declined. This began his most productive period which ended with him becoming an apple farmer in Michigan. Here are two more I shot later at the <u>Milwaukee Art Museum</u>:<br />
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In 1879 Thomas Barlow Walker began showing his art collection to the public at his home which led to him building the Walker Art Gallery in 1927. The now Walker Art Center opened in 1940 with the latest building dedicated in 1971. Also on the grounds is the Minnesota Sculpture Garden. This part, unfortunately, was closed due to complete renovation. The Center is renown as a Contemporary Art center, but they have many wonderful galleries of Modern Art, as well.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Le Grand Cheval</i> by <b>Raymond Duchamp-Villlon</b>, 1914</td></tr>
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Two of the first pieces we saw hold special significance to us because both <b>Franz Marc</b> and <b>Raymond Duchamp-Villon</b> lost their lives - for opposing sides - in World War I.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Barfusserkirche II</i> by <b>Lyonel Feininger</b>, 1926</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Still Life with Flowers</i> by <b>Florine Stettheimer</b>, 1921</td></tr>
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<b>Stanton Macdonald-Wright </b>is given credit as the co-founder of <i>Synchronism</i> which he, along with fellow student, Morgan Russell, developed from their teacher, Canadian painter <b>Percyval Tudor-Hart</b>, while in Paris (1911-1913). Though others say they merely borrowed from <b>Sonia</b> and <b>Robert Delaunay</b>'s <i>Simultaneity</i>. <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/D4RLM1179mj9EcqM9"><b>CLICK HERE FOR A FEW MORE</b>.</a></div>
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We visited <b>Anoka</b> for a craft fair, which was fairly crafty but not very interesting. Even these locals look bored: </div>
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Then to <b>Robbinsdale</b> for<i> Whiz Bang Days</i>. There was back-alley bocce:<br />
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A teaching museum since 1937, the <i>Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum</i> opened its new Frank Gehry-designed building on the <i>University of Minnesota-Twin Cities</i> campus in 1993. Among the more than 20,000 items are lots that caught my eye.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Dawn</i> by <b>Niki de Saint Phalle</b>, 1997</td></tr>
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They have lots of <b>Marsden Hartley</b>s and more <b>Alfred Maurer</b>s than I have seen before.<br />
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Although consistently referred to as <i>Disappearing Statues</i>, the title of the work is <i>Spannungsfeld</i> or <i>Area of Conflict</i> by <b>Julian Voss-Andreae</b>, 2014.<br />
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Just over forty years ago, the <i><b>Hmong</b></i> people began arriving in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region. They are now more than 66,000 making them a major ethnic group. The Hmong lived in southwestern China for thousands of years until the mid-1600s when China began limiting their freedom. They migrated south to Laos, Thailand, and other countries. During the Vietnam War, the Hmong agreed to aid the United States in fighting the Communists in the "Secret War," but when the war was over, the Communists took revenge. Thousands died and thousands more fled. They are farmers and <b>Mike Hazard</b> shot some wonderful pictures for his show at the <u>Minnesota Museum of American Art</u>, <i>Seeds of Change</i>.<br />
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Marie contributed some seed art.<br />
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Although I can't tell from their website, the MMAA is apparently closed, so what we saw was a "project space." The receptionist insisted that it was the whole museum. Nonetheless, it was interesting to learn about the Hmong,<br />
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It was a busy day in Rice Park.<br />
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This is <b>Herb Brooks</b>, coach of the U.S.A.'s <i>Miracle on Ice</i> hockey team that beat the U.S.S.R. Born in St. Paul.<br />
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And this is <b>F. Scott Fitzgerald</b>, born in St. Paul. <br />
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<b>Charles Schultz</b> was also born in St. Paul.<br />
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Before we leave downtown St. Paul, take a look at this classic:<br />
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Our next stop in St. Paul was <u>Como Lake Park</u>, home of the the <u>Marjorie McNeely Conservatory</u> (1913).<br />
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The next day we dropped into the <u>Mall of America</u> - the largest in the US. Other than the amusement parks, it was much like any other mall. Only a little uglier.</div>
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We drove northeast to <b>Stillwater</b>, on the <u>St. Croix River</u>.<br />
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On our way to Taylors Falls, we came upon a welcome surprise:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Skallagrim</i> by<b> Peter Lundberg</b>, 2015</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Fibonacci Wannabe III </i>by <b>Nam Trong Le</b>, 2011</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Parade </i>by <b>Mike Rathburn</b>, 2013</td></tr>
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Franconia Sculpture Park, on the St. Croix Trail at Franconia, was founded as a non-profit in 1996 by a small group of artists. They offer up to forty artist residencies annually, as well as a host of activities including a yearly exhibition and a gallery for 2D in NE Minneapolis.</div>
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<b>Taylors Falls</b> is the site of <u>Interstate Park</u>. We stayed on the Minnesota side of the river:</div>
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Besides the beauty, geologists from around the world come here to see the ten layers of lava flow that are exposed, two distinct glacial deposits, various fault lines, and glacial pools. And cute frogs.<br />
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The next day we made our pilgrimage to historic <u>Minnehaha Falls</u>. Named for Longfellow's poem, the Falls have long been a major tourist attraction.<br />
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On the campaign trail in 1964, LBJ visited the falls along with HHH.<br />
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Further south we found <b>Hastings</b> on the Mississippi and Le Croix Rivers.<br />
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These are cut-stone murals under the overpass in Hastings. Done by <b>Craig David</b> in 2013, they're entitled <i>Highway 61 - Spanning the Times</i>.<br />
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Time to leave for <u><b>Madison, Wisconsin</b></u> ( hours) and the <u>Chazen Museum of Art</u> on the campus of the University of Wisconsin. For a relatively young museum, they have many very nice paintings, including these from CoBrA artists (see previous posts for more on CoBrA.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>It's Not Possible</i> by <b>Pierre Alechinsky</b>, 1965</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Personage </i>by <b>Asger Jorn</b>, 1958</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Clown</i> by <b>Karel Appel</b>, 1954</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Flights of Birds in a Landscape</i> by <b>Corneille</b>, 1960</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Fools' Congress, Part 2 </i>by <b>Arnold Zimmerman</b>, 1998-1999</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Twenty-four Feet</i> by<b> Elise Siegel</b>, 2004</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Sligo Quay </i>by <b>Jack Butler Yeats</b>, 1913</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Happy as Larry</i> by <b>Alexander Caldwell</b>, 1949</td></tr>
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There was lots of Nevelson and Nadelman and Calder. <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/L6hnBrxmGydoHcby8"><b>CLICK HERE FOR MORE</b></a>.<br />
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The UW campus is along the southern shore of Lake Mendota. On the other side of the Capitol, the Monona Terrace faces Lake Monona. Originally proposed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939, this project was not built until 1997. So while being advertised as a FLW design, it was actually done by a former apprentice.<br />
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They also have some Art.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Cluster</i> by <b>John Ready</b>, 2016</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Florette</i> by <b>Sam Spiczka</b>, 2015</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Three Red Houses</i> by<b> Andrew Arvanetes</b>, 2016</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Play Things</i> by <b>Jacob McGinn</b>, 2016</td></tr>
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And that's about all for Madison, so our next stop was the <u>Haggerty Museum of Art</u> on the Marquette University campus in Milwaukee.<br />
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Originally opened in 1948, <b>Keith Haring</b> was commissioned to paint on the construction fence that enclosed the museum in 1983.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Construction Fence</i> by <b>Keith Haring</b>, 1983 </td></tr>
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And this Dali:<br />
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Next stop, <u>Milwaukee Art Museum</u>, on the shores of Lake Michigan.<br />
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There was a hand-weaving display at the entrance:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i>Boating </i>by <b>Gabriele M<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">ü</span>nter</b>, 1910 <i> In Schwabing</i> by <b>Gabriele M<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">ü</span>nter, </b>1912</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Green House</i> by Gabriele <b>M<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">ü</span>nter</b>, 1911 </td></tr>
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Jawlensky and von Werefkin were a couple (though not married) and spent the summer in a house with Munter and Kandinsky in Murnau (south of Munich). It was Munter's house, but still they called it the "Russian's House." And, of course, Kandinsky. Alas, no Franz Marc. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Fragment I for Composition VII</i> etc by<b> Vassily Kandinsky</b>, 1913</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><i>Prognostic</i> by <b>Manierre Dawson</b>, 1910</span></td></tr>
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From April 1, 2011 to April 1, 2012, we lived in <b>West Hartford, Connecticut</b> while Marie was on a work assignment. During that time I wrote a blog called <i>39 Weekends</i> detailing our adventures. We visited virtually every Art museum in the Northeast (except for Maine). From Provincetown to Niagara Falls and from Brooklyn to Dartmouth College, we saw a lot of Art in museums, galleries, schools, festivals, on the streets and in the Art Leagues. We just had to share it. Note also that there are links for stories about Connecticut Artists, as well as sculpture found in the Hartford area. So without further ado, here is <a href="http://www.39weekends.blogspot.com/"><i>39 Weekends</i></a>:<br />
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<a name='more'></a></div>The impact of women on Art in <b>New York City</b> is undeniable. Institutions such as the Whitney Museum, founded by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and MOMA founded by Abby Rockefeller, are two such examples. I found, however, that the female influence is even more profound, as many of the countless sculptures found in New York, were done by women. This became our focus for a couple of day trips we took to the Big Apple.<br />
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We discovered that the best time to visit NYC was early on Sunday morning. The traffic is light and you can park almost anywhere. Beginning “uptown” we found a piece by the aforementioned <u>Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney</u>. Although known for her wealth, Gertrude not only a major force in Modern Art in America, she also paved the way for a new style of sculpture. Not just honoring the generals of war, she chose to represent the soldiers in a softer light. The <i>Inwood War Memorial</i> was done in 1921 and located in Washington Heights at <br />
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</div>Continuing down Broadway to 155th Street, we find the <u>Hispanic Society of America Museum</u>. Founded in 1904 by railroad heir Archer Milton Huntington, the centerpiece of the terrace is a large equestrian statue of <i>El Cid Campeador </i>done by his wife <u>Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington</u> in 1927. Due to construction and the early hour, we were able to only get a glimpse of the statue. So here is another photo:<br />
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</div>A few years earlier Ms Huntington went to Paris and became enamored with the stories of <i>Joan of Arc</i> and displayed a full-sized plaster cast of Joan at the Paris Salon. In 1915 the bronze was installed on Riverside Drive at 93rd Street. Copies of this piece are in Paris, San Francisco, and Gloucester, MA.<br />
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</div>Further down Riverside Drive, at 72nd Street, we found a statue of <i>Eleanor Roosevelt</i> done by <u>Penelope Jencks</u> in 1996.<br />
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</div>Over on 8th Ave at 122nd Street is a marvelous statue of <i>Harriet Tubman</i> created by <u>Alison Saar</u> in 2008. She depicted the historic abolitionist “not as the conductor of the Underground Railroad, but as the train itself, and unstoppable locomotive with the roots of slavery pulled up in her wake.”<br />
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</div>Another key figure in the liberation of African Americans, <i>Frederick Douglass</i>, was immortalized by <u>Gabriel Koren </u>just outside the northwest corner of Central Park in 2010.<br />
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</div>Central Park is a trove of sculptures by women artists. Beginning at the Central Park Conservatory Garden near 5th Avenue and 106th Street, is <u>Bessie Potter Vonnoh</u>’s Pan with nymph and birdbath she called <i>Garden Figure Fountain </i>in 1928.<br />
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</div>Just west, on the shores of The Lake of Central Park, is the massive <i>Angel of the Waters</i>, also called Bethesda Fountain. This is the only statue commissioned by the Park and was created by <u>Emma Stebbins</u> in 1868. She was the first woman to receive a public commission for a major work in New York City.<br />
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</div>At the southern end of Central Park we found another equestrian statue by <u>Anna Huntington </u>of <i>Jose Marti.</i> Begun in 1950, when she was over eighty years old, it was not unveiled until 1965 due to political ramifications of honoring a Cuban nationalist.<br />
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</div>Nearby is a statue of <i>Simon Bolivar </i>done by <u>Sally James Farnham</u> in 1921.<br />
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</div>There was also a piece by <u> Eva Rothschild</u> called <i>Empire</i> which was installed in the Park near for several months in 2011.<br />
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</div>Over on Lexington Avenue neat 78th Street is the All Souls Unitarian Church. In the sanctuary there is a memorial of <i>Theodore Williams</i> sculpted by <u>Evelyn Longman Batchelder</u>. <br />
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</div>While this, like the <i>John Kennedy Memorial</i> in the United Charities Building, and the plaque of <i>Henry Corbin </i>on Governors Island, are not what you call monumental works, Batchelder’s most famous work is no longer in New York.<br />
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</div>The story begins in 1914 when AT&T announced a national competition for a statue to top it’s new headquarters at 195 Broadway in Manhattan. The final selection was made by AT&T President Theodore N. Vail and Daniel Chester French with the winner being Evelyn Beatrice Longman (this was before she married Batchelder). She wanted her sculpture to be fast like Mercury, but with an air of mystery. Named <i>Genius of Electricity</i>, he is twenty-four feet high, weighs forty tons, and is cast in bronze and covered with 40,000 pieces of gold leaf. One hand holds lightening bolts; the other a coil of wire. He was completed and delivered in 1916 and hoisted to his home 465 feet above street level. Though far from the sight of most, he was soon nicknamed, “Golden Boy.”<br />
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</div>In the 1930s Golden Boy was repositioned as the <i>Spirit of Communication</i> and for the next two decades he appeared on every phone book – always very small, though. AT&T built a new post-Modern headquarters at 550 Madison Avenue in 1984. It was known as the “Chippendale building” for its fancy roofline. Since Golden Boy couldn’t stand on this roof, a seven-story lobby was built specially for him. When he was lowered to street level, his problems (and AT&T’s problems) began.<br />
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Golden Boy was massively anatomically correct, it turned out. Concerns arose until Chairman John de Butts made an executive decision. The scaffolding was up around GB for almost a year. When he was unveiled, he was much more modest in his proportions.<br />
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Some think that this gelding sealed the fate of AT&T, which lost its monopoly that same year. GB was removed to the new Basking Ridge, New Jersey headquarters in 1992 where he guarded the entrance to executive parking. Following divestiture in 1992, he went to the new headquarters in Bedminster, and reassembled at the edge of a parking lot. <br />
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In November 2005, a former subsidiary of AT&T acquired the company and took it’s name and in 2009, moved Golden Boy to the company's new global headquarters in the lobby of the Whitacre Tower, 208 South Akard Street in Dallas, Texas.<br />
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Over on the East side, in Dag Hammarskjold Park, along a block of West 47th Street, we found an installation done by <u>Steinunn Thorarisndottir</u> called <i>Borders</i>. I checked and that is a girl's name. This work will remain only until the end of September, 2011. There are twenty-six figures in the project.<br />
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</div>And at the end of the plaza there is another piece done by <i>Ulia and Gustave Kraitz</i>. <u>The Raoul Wallenberg memorial</u> is on a traffic island in front of the U.N.<br />
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</div>Jumping back to Broadway at 39th Street, there is a bust of former prime minister of Israel <i>Gold Meir</i>, which was sculpted by <u>Beatrice Goldfine</u> in 1984.<br />
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</div>Then heading south and east over to Stuyvesant Square we find a statue of <i>Peter Styvesant</i> by <u>Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney</u>. I told you she was a busy woman.. The statue was first exhibited at the Netherlands Pavilion in the New York World’s Fair of 1939 before being unveiled at its present location in 1941.<br />
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</div>Continuing south to Bowery and Division Street, in the heart of Chinatown, we find a statue of <i>Confusius</i> by <u>Liu Shih</u>, The fifteen-foot statue was erected in 1976.<br />
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</div>Our last stop in this tour of women sculptors in NYC is <u>Louise Nevelson Plaza,</u> in the Financial District. Bounded by Williams Street, Liberty Street, and Maiden Lane, the plaza was originally dedicated in 1977 and was reconstructed in 2009. It is the first public space in NYC named for an artist and has seven of Nevelson’s steel painted pieces, made from scraps from a foundry in Connecticut.. She called it <i>Shadows and Flags</i>. <br />
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</div>In addition to these artworks, there were additional sculptures by women artist at and near the <i>High Line</i> – a section of the former elevated train line that was renovated to become an elevated urban park. Up to now, it runs above the West side from Gansevoort to 30th Street<br />
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We had to opportunity to see sculpture by three women artists: <u>Sarah Sze</u>, <u>Still Life with Landscape (Model for a Habitat):</u><br />
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</div><u>Julianne Swartz</u>, <i>Digital Empathy:</i><br />
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</div><u>Kim Beck</u>, <i>Space Available</i>, on rooftops along Washington St, between West 13th & Gansevoort Sts:<br />
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</div>Of course, there is probably more sculpture by women artists in NYC, and we limited our search to just Manhattan.Xtreme Art Touristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575440062797655355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175942944024083193.post-20943981094131630622011-04-23T11:15:00.011-04:002011-04-29T07:54:52.183-04:00Deland, Florida - Art Town Supreme<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://xtremearttourists1.blogspot.com/2011/04/deland-florida-art-town-supreme.html#more"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJrB4TIMqVM3ywgdbvqWSsbhNn24C8HsxgYkc5ySLJisOCwFxhyphenhyphenPVeDKh0eozQ4VWfifh3TK9v0s-kbp9-CpChluOK5w74dSYo7hWmXMaNoG87EqVo6ArToIsPVVqpSEzxWdDr4KsmzYM/s320/H+Bill+Teapot+by+Jack+Earl.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Teapot </i>by Jack Earl</div><br />
The “Athens of Florida” is how the people of Deland like to think of their town of twenty thousand. Home to a half-dozen museums with Art, as well as wonderful outdoor public sculpture, two big Art festivals, a college with a strong Art program, and a community filled with Art lovers, they may have a point.<br />
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It was 1876 when Henry Deland envisioned an agri/tourism center among the orange groves about forty-five minutes north of Orlando. He incorporated his self-named town in 1882. The next year he founded Deland Academy in order to add some class. This became <b>Stetson University</b> after the oranges froze and Deland’s fortunes died with them.<br />
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</div>One of the most remarkable things about the Art in Deland, is that it is all within easy walking distance. We started on the Stetson campus at the <b>Homer & Dolly Hand Art Center</b>. This museum houses the university’s extensive collection of art by Modernist painter <u>Oscar Bluemner</u>. More than one thousand pieces were donated to the University by Bluemner’s daughter, Vera Kouba in 1967. Then Mr. and Mrs. Hand donated a million dollars to have the museum created in the center of Stetson’s cultural campus to protect and exhibit this gift.<br />
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</div>The story of Oscar Florianus Bluemner (1867-1938) is one of struggle and tragedy in the life of an artist placed in the highest ranks of American Modernist painters. German by birth, Bluemner’s genius was discovered by Alfred Stieglitz who showed his work at the 291, including him with Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keefe, Charles Demuth and a couple of others. His paintings were also at the first great <i>Armory Show</i> and <i>Whitney Biennial.</i> But despite widespread critical acclaim he sold little Art and was poor. He died by his own hand.<br />
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</div>Exhibitions of Bluemner’s paintings and drawings are grouped for showings. The <i>Vermillion Man</i> exhibition of 2006 traveled to the Whitney Museum in New York to, once again, great critical reviews. On display for our visit were twenty-six images of Paterson, New Jersey. Very powerful work.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Paterson Canal - Snow</i>, 1917</td></tr>
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</div>There is a second gallery with rotating exhibitions. We were delighted to see work by artists we knew among the display.<br />
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Right next door to the Hand, is the <b>Pope and Margaret Duncan Gallery of Art</b> in Sampson Hall; home of the School of Fine Art. Rotating shows by Southeastern and national artists, as well as Stetson faculty and students, can be seen here.<br />
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We enjoyed work by <u>Dan Gunderson</u> and <u>Gary Bolding</u> in the spacious gallery<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Dance</i> by Gunderson in the center</td></tr>
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</div>And then poked our heads into the studio across the hall and found this piece by <u>Abigail Lamb</u>:<br />
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A few blocks down Woodland Boulevard, which is a delight to walk along, is the <b>Florida Museum for Women Artists</b>. It’s one flight up, overlooking downtown Deland.<br />
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</div>We found three galleries filled with Art created by women. The only museum in the state dedicated to promoting the Art of women. We were there for <u>Dorothy Gillespie</u>’s exhibition: <i>Ovation</i>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Phantom's Islands</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Return Series: The Homecoming</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Through the Looking Glass, North, South, East and West</i></td></tr>
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</div>FMWA offers a variety of group, individual, juried, and historic shows. There’s a gift shop and café.<br />
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(100 N Woodland Blvd, Suite #1, Tues-Thurs: 11-6, Fri-Sat: 11-7, Sun: 1-5, closed Mon. & major hol., <a href="http://www.floridamuseumforwomenartists.org/">www.floridamuseumforwomenartists.org</a>)<br />
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The <b>African American Museum of the Arts</b> is just a couple of blocks off of Woodland. And as the name implies, the museum’s exhibitions reflect primarily the culture of African Americans and Caribbean Americans. The permanent collection containing more than one hundred and fifty pieces with changing shows throughout the year.<br />
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</div>Founded in 1994, the museum showcases the collections of<u> Irene and Maxwell Johnson</u>. The offerings include both established and emerging artists for the community to enjoy.<br />
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(325 South Clara Avenue, Thurs-Sat, 10 am-4 pm, Free, <a href="http://www.africanmuseumdeland.org/">www.africanmuseumdeland.org</a>)<br />
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I’ll have to admit that this next stop is more than a casual stroll away, but only a half dozen or so blocks. And while the <b>Deland Memorial Hospital Museum </b>may not sound like a place to see Art, this hospital-turned-museum on the National Register of Historic places has a collection that adds to the Artmosphere of Deland. Amid the displays of medical equipment are twenty paintings by local artist and teacher, <u>Virginia Singer</u>.<br />
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Rarely painting anything less than 3’x3’, Ms. Singer’s work is well suited to the museum, where it will hang in perpetuity. Even the second-floor ladies restroom has a lush floral painting on the wall.<br />
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(Deland Memorial Hospital Museum, 230 North Stone St; Wed-Sat 10-3)<br />
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Back on Woodland across from the Stetson campus is the<b> Museum of Florida Art</b>. Begun as Deland’s Children’s Museum in 1951, the museum has changed locations, goals, and names leading to their present building. While they have featured major shows by artists like Ansel Adams, they have developed touring exhibitions like William Wegeman’s <i>It’s a Dog’s Life</i> Polaroids, all the while presenting a wide array of Florida Artists. They have done great work, as well, in reaching out to the community with various projects.<br />
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To be honest, on the two occasions I was in Deland to visit museums, the MFA was between shows, so here are some of the sculptures outside.<br />
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</div>(<a href="http://www.museumoffloridaart.org/">www.museumoffloridaart.org</a>, 600 North Woodland Blvd, Tues-Sat.10-4, Sun 1-4)<br />
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While walking the streets of Deland, one is likely to come upon a piece of public art – be it sculpture or mural. <b>Sculpture Walk</b> begins each September and runs for one year, is organized by the Museum of Florida Art.. Here are a few pieces I found:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">by Joan Balilker</td></tr>
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<tr align="center"><td class="tr-caption">by David Cumbie</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">by John Wilton</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Flamp</i> by Jack Messersmith</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Airborne </i>by Charles Scala</td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: left;">And even more Art:</div></div><br />
In the <b>Volusia County Courthouse</b> (120 W. Indiana Ave) you can see the work of Jackson Walker. The ongoing exhibit of his paintings, on loan from the Museum of Florida Art, is called <i>Legendary Florida</i> and can be seen during business hours. (<a href="http://www.museumoffloridaart.org/legendaryflorida/index.html">www.museumoffloridaart.org/legendaryflorida/index.html</a>)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mr. Stetson</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Return to Big Cypress</i></td></tr>
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As if this wasn’t enough, there is also <b>Fourth Friday in Artisan Alley</b> (6 to 9), and two major Art festivals.<br />
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<b>Fall Festival of the Arts</b> is the weekend before Thanksgiving, and fills Woodland Boulevard with two hundred national artists. With over $45,000 in awards, it was voted best outdoor fine art fest by Florida Living Magazine. Strong Youth Art area on West Indiana Ave.<br />
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In the spring there is the <b>Outdoor Art Festival</b> at Earl Brown Park, South Alabama Avenue. Begun in 1965 on the streets of downtown Deland, it’s now just a block off Woodland in a greener setting.<br />
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And here are more Art we found:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the Luther Burbank of Florida, Lue Gim Gong</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">untitled and unsigned</td></tr>
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</div>And before we leave Deland, I have to point out the refurbished <b>Athens Theatre</b>, home of the Sands Theater Company.<br />
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</div>You would be hardpressed to find this much Art in close proximity anywhere in the world.Xtreme Art Touristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575440062797655355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175942944024083193.post-8844864662601951302010-10-06T10:51:00.011-04:002010-10-25T09:06:41.521-04:00St. Petersburg, Florida: Anatomy of an Art Town<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://xtremearttourists1.blogspot.com/2010/10/st-petersburg-florida-anatomy-of-art.html"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-Q5DVGqJ1Bx5y96PaczyVfOtBZxWuAFYlC7iWQ_M-tXc1qrjyIs-d1XzfhgMjkl2jgQ9zFPdss-raYT3m_NUeNkjd6MZRekGhUYQrZVz6h-QJltqjeR1rqW4j04WVA4ii7BqOr6Kg5fE/s320/Face+the+Jury+by+artist+Douglas+Kornfield+2006+Pinellas+County+Judicial+building.JPG" width="320" /><span id="goog_961517655"></span></a><span id="goog_961517656"></span></div><a name='more'></a><br />
(September 2010) Why, you might ask, was St. Petersburg named a top Art Destination by AmericanStyle Magazine? Number One, in fact, for a mid-sized city. What does it take to make an Art Town? You will soon see that St. Petersburg has the Art and everything else to attract and delight Art Tourists from around the world.<br />
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St. Petersburg has long been a very stylish city, which continues to be evoked from the downtown waterfront <b>Vinoy Resort and Golf Club</b> (1925) to the luxurious beachfront <b>Don CeSar</b> (1928). And with that high style comes lots of Art.<br />
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Museums are a good place to start when looking at an Art Town. And while the superb <b>Museum of Fine Arts</b> opened on Beach Drive in 1965, and the <b>Salvador Dali Museum </b>did so over on Third Street in 1982, the big news is that the <b>Chihuly Collection </b>opened this past July just up the street from the MFA. And even more news, is that the Dali Museum is moving into a new home in January 2011 at a waterfront site next to the Mahaffey Theater.<br />
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</div>The Chihuly Collection is the first facility specifically designed to display the Art of Dale Chihuly, flamboyant glass artist extraordinaire. Included are spectacular large-scale installations such as <i>Ruby Red Icicle Chandelier</i> created specifically for the Collection along with several popular series works including <i>Macchia, Ikebana, Niijima Floats, Persians </i>and <i>Tumbleweeds</i>. There is, of course, a gift shop.<br />
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</div>The Dali Museum has the largest collection of artwork by this iconic surrealist outside of Europe, and was assembled by A. Reynolds and Eleanor R. Morse. The museum's collection includes 96 oil paintings, over 100 watercolors and drawings, plus 1,300 graphics, photographs, sculptures and other pieces. Included are seven of Dali’s eighteen masterworks. <i>The Hallucinogenic Toreador</i> and <i>The Discover of America by Christopher Columbus </i>are but two.<br />
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</div>Architect Yann Weymouth, who worked with I.M. Pei on the renovation of the Louvre, is designing the new facility. He also designed the new wing of the Museum of Fine Arts.<br />
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Still housed in the original building, the MFA’s permanent collections include European Art from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, such as Claude Monet's <i>Le Parlement, Effet de Brouillard</i>. There is American Art, 18th and 19th centuries, as well as Greek, Roman, Asian, and Pre-Columbian Art.<br />
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</div>The new wing provides ample space for special exhibitions such as the current show, <i>Transcending Vision</i> (through January 9, 2011) which contains works by more than seventy artists, including such major figures as Thomas Moran, George Inness, Childe Hassam, Daniel Garber, John Sloan, Ernest Lawson, George Bellows, and Guy Wiggins.<br />
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Not surprisingly, there is a plethora of Art galleries throughout the city. From around the waterfront and the strong cluster surrounding the museums there, to the length of Central Avenue, St. Petersburg boasts a great many interesting and innovative galleries.<br />
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One way to see what the city has to offer is at the <b>Second Saturday Gallery Walk</b>. This is presented by the St. Petersburg Downtown Arts Association (<a href="http://www.stpetearts.org/">www.stpetearts.org</a>).<br />
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And while I cannot possibly list or describe all of St. Petersburg’s Art galleries, a few stops on <u><b>Central Avenue</b></u> deserve a closer look at the Art and Architecture.<br />
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Beginning at 4th Street, I like to visit the <b>Open Air Post Office</b>, a mix of Classical Revival and Spanish Colonial. Or is it Mediterranean Revival? It was dedicated in 1916 and has served as a post office since.<br />
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</div>Originally open on all sides allowing patrons to access their boxes at any hour, part was enclosed in 1969 for indoor, air-conditioned service. Next door is the coquina-clad <b>Snell Arcade</b>, also in the National Register of Historic Places. I found this very nice mosaic inside:<br />
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</div>Just one block up is the <b>Florida Craftsmen Gallery</b>, home of the statewide association for fine craft art. The association is over 58 years old, while the gallery has been anchoring the Central Avenue Art revival since 1998. In addition to rooms of fine crafts for sale, there is a large display space for exhibitions such as the group show <i>Fabricated</i>, which included several wonderful pieces that used items such as divorce law briefs for <i>The Beginning of the End </i>by Denise Moody-Tackley. Or a dress made from sugar by Gianna Coppiano Dwin.<br />
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</div>Last April, the former 1920’s <b>Crislip Arcade</b>, 645 Central Ave., was converted for use as studio and gallery space for eleven emerging artists. Another investment in the Art scene.<br />
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</div><b>Morean Arts Center</b>, 719 Central Ave., is a spectacular exhibition space, with regularly changing shows of contemporary Art. We got there while the next show was mostly in crates.<br />
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</div>Out back is the <b>Glass Studio & Hot Shop</b> where viewers get an opportunity to see how glass is worked and a chance to learn how to blow glass. A combo ticket is available with admission to the Chihuly Collection.<br />
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</div>Morean’s roots go to 1917 as the Art Club of St. Petersburg, and morphed into the 35,000 square foot facility it is today. Besides showing work by internationally renowned artists, the Morean (named for its benefactor Beth Ann Morean) offers a full range of classes and activities.<br />
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Further up Central is <b>Creative Clay</b>. So much more than its name implies, this is a cultural arts center as well as a social service agency. Since 1995, Creative Clay has been “providing local artists with developmental, physical and/or emotional disabilities an opportunity to pursue their passion for art making.”<br />
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Ambitious goals, well-met, if the smiling faces we saw at their Folkfest last weekend was any indication. Central Ave was filled with booths for Art and fun and learning and eating and music.<br />
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There is at least one location a bit off the beaten track that should be mentioned.<b> Salt Creek Artworks</b> (1600 4th St. South) is an important part of the city's growing reputation as an art destination. For over a decade there has been space for more than forty artist studios in an industrial atmosphere where a wide variety of Art has been produced. The <b>Galleries at Salt Creek</b> is one of the largest spaces in the area, and has presented a diversity of quality shows by artists from across the nation.<br />
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Good Public Art is something that certainly makes an Art Town. And St. Petersburg has more than its share. Some corporate citizens, such as Ovation condominiums, have commissioned special artworks for their properties.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>O Wave </i>by Gordon Huether, 2009</td></tr>
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</div>The <b>Art in Public Places</b> program has installed over eighty pieces of Art since 1990, through a “Percent for Art” program. (<a href="http://www.stpete.org/arts_and_culture/public_art_map/index.htm">Click here for more information</a>.)<br />
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</div>In addition, the <b>Pinellas County Public Art Collection and Design</b> program has completed major commissions, launched a successful residency program for artists in parks, and stimulated interest in public art throughout the county.<br />
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</div>A major Art festival is a key ingredient of an Art Town. Going into its 36th year, the<b> Mainsail Arts Festival</b> (April 16 & 17, 2011) is one of the premier Art events in the nation (Sunshine Artist’s “100 Best”). More than 250 artists from around the nation fill St. Petersburg’s waterfront, to compete for $50,000 in prize money.<br />
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I like to highlight architecture when I visit an Art Town. In St. Petersburg, I discovered the <b>Historic Kenwood Neighborhood</b> - 170 bungalows erected in the 1930’s, many in the Craftsman style. Among the many activities is the Bungalow Fest on the first weekend in November. What is particularly interesting about this neighborhood is their attempt to attain Artist Enclave Status. (<a href="http://www.historickenwood.org/">www.historickenwood.org)</a><br />
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</div>No city is an island, and there are several notable Art attractions beyond downtown St. Petersburg, but still in Pinellas County, that contribute to the Art Destination status. <br />
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Just ten minutes away is the charming town of GULFPORT, home of the <b>Gulfport Art Walks</b> which take place on the 1st Friday and 3rd Saturday of each month. These events are more like mini-Art Festivals with tents on the sidewalks and performances in the streets. (<a href="http://gulfportflorida.us/gulfport-art-walk">Click here for more information</a>). <br />
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There is also <b>Springfest</b> at the end of March and <b>Geckofest</b> on Labor Day weekend. The beach and the casino on Boca Ciega Bay are added bonuses!<br />
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Out on ST. PETE BEACH you find the appropriately named <b>Suntan Art Center and Gallery</b>, standing next to the legendary Don CeSar Hotel. No better place to get out of the sun and see some Art. Now over 40 years old, the non-profit, membership-driven Suntan Art also hosts the <b>Pass-A-Grille Art Mart</b> every Saturday. A laid-back gallery al fresco on one of the best beaches anywhere.<br />
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The <b>Tom and Mary James/Raymond James Financial Art Collection</b> can be found at the Raymond James International headquarters (880 Carillon Parkway, off Olmerton). This is one of Florida’s largest private art collections, and consists of over 1,800 paintings, sculptures, and graphics. Although the Jameses began accumulating predominantly American artists, in the late 1950s, the collection has grown to include works by such artists as Alexander Calder, Salvador Dali, Jacob Lawrence, Roy Lichtenstein, Leroy Neiman, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol, and Jamie Wyeth, among others. In the mid 1980s, while on trips to Colorado and New Mexico, Mr. James began to collect Western and Southwestern art. At the present time, more than half of the collection consists of Western/Southwestern styles of art, including works by Roy Andersen, Earl Biss, Glenna Goodacre, Allen Houser, Frank McCarthy, Dave McGary, Dan Namingha and Ray Swanson. Wildlife art makes up about a quarter of the collection, including works from Matthew Hillier, John Seerey-Lester, Al Agnew, and Trevor Swanson.<br />
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</div>The collection is not open to the public; however, those wishing to visit may request a tour by calling 727/567-1363.<br />
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The <u>real</u> Art Tourists continue north along the Gulf of Mexico, to the end of Pinellas County and the city of TARPON SPRINGS. Often described as the most European-feeling place in Florida because of its Greek population and sponge diving ambiance, it is also home of <b>Tarpon Springs Unitarian Universalist Church</b>. Here, at the corner of Grand Boulevard and Read Road, we find the largest collection of paintings by <u>George Inness, Jr.</u> Open to the public every afternoon from 1-4pm Dec 1-April 30, except Sun, Mon and holidays. To view the paintings prior to December 1, call the church at 727-937-4682 to make an appointment.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i>Fishing Near Tarpon Springs</i> by George Inness, Jr., 1917 </div><br />
Son of the famous George Inness, master landscaper painter, Junior trained under his father (and others). And while best known as a portraitist, his landscapes bear the father’s influence. Inness Jr. spent his winters in Tarpon Springs beginning in 1900 until he died in 1926.<br />
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</div>While in Tarpon Springs, visit the <b>Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art</b> on the St. Petersburg College campus. It only opened in 2002, but began with the 20th century collection of <u>Abraham Rattner</u>, which includes work by his contemporaries: Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Marc Chagall, and Max Ernst. The 6,000-piece collection includes work by Rattner’s second wife and son-in-law.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Abraham Rattner's <span style="font-style: italic;">The Flying Trapeze</span><i>, <span style="font-style: italic;">1935</span></i></td></tr>
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</div>That should be enough to satisfy any Art appetite, but wait. There’s more. CLEARWATER/DUNEDIN plays host to even more Art activities. Every <b>4th Friday </b>Clearwater's <u>Cleveland Street District</u> (400-600) lights up with Art (<a href="http://www.4thfridayclearwater.com/">www.4thfridayclearwater.com/</a>). And now almost 50 year old, the <b>Art Harvest</b> is held the first weekend in November at Highlander Park in Dunedin. Over 200 artists participate in this well-respected juried show. Also, the <b>Dunedin Fine Art Center</b> (1143 Michigan Blvd.) offers changing exhibitions, classes and activities.<br />
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</div>And finally, here’s the <b>Pinellas County cultural map</b>:<a href="http://www.pinellasarts.org/pdf/cultural_map.pdf">www.pinellasarts.org/pdf/cultural_map.pdf.</a>Xtreme Art Touristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575440062797655355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175942944024083193.post-78092245967808825982010-09-19T13:05:00.019-04:002010-09-21T04:32:19.119-04:00Adventures in and Around New Jersey (NY & PA)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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Marie was assigned to work in Trenton, New Jersey for one year, so we planned to make the most of it and do all we could while we were in the area. This post is about our adventures in and around New Jersey from the beginning of September 2005 to the end of August 2006.<br />
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While we were there we got involved. Marie went to life drawing, took a creativity workshop, and had an Art show in New Hope. I played in three community bands, answered phones for the PBS station fund drive, and we both helped out with Winterfest in Lambertville.<br />
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We can’t avoid history when speaking of New Jersey, and especially Trenton. The military victory on December 26, by George Washington and his army was crucial in the war for independence. After crossing the icy Delaware River to Trenton, they defeated the Hessian troops garrisoned there. Trenton was briefly the nation’s capital in 1784 and considered for the permanent capital. It became the state capital in 1790.<br />
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A famous relic of Trenton's more immediate past as major manufacturing center was the slogan "Trenton Makes, the World Takes" displayed on the Delaware River Bridge. The city adopted the slogan in the 1920s to represent Trenton's leading role at the time as a major manufacturing center for steel, rubber, wire, rope, linoleum and ceramics. <br />
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And very few know that in 1896 the first professional basketball game was played in Trenton. Alright, I’ll stop. While Trenton has many diverse distractions, there was not a lot of Art to be seen in the city. Ellarslie Mansion, built in 1848 as centerpiece for Cadwalader Park (designed by Frederick Law Olmsted), had occasional exhibitions of local Art, but was primarily a city history museum. So we’ll look at Art on a regional basis.<br />
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<b>The Grounds For Sculpture </b>was just outside Trenton on the site of the old New Jersey State Fair in Hamilton. The display actually began outside the Grounds on the side of the I-95 exit for Hamilton, and other works led the way through an industrial area to the park.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>October Gathering</i>, 2001 by Joan Danziger</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhNcWW3szE-kPUBOPa2G8qF58wj_6s0lefL5MHvtI5tCNrduWkV9XDVjp763CYpYHnmIQnG4ubgcGnPutea_sm_3xytSekFy5jsfprRrTXNQJtqBXNB9cVdbbDT0HLWlrwe_iNDEn6LW8/s1600/100_2056.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">There were a few of the original fair buildings, but the main exhibition hall was new and the other major facility was the workshop of J. Seward Johnson. Johnson was famous for his outsized sculptures of the subjects for famous paintings. The Art was terrific and the sculptures were displayed in a variety of settings, making the journey through the park even more enjoyable. </div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Dejeuner de ja vu,</i> 1994 by Johnson</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxIcQjOQIhvPAbRVIHhKreak3ExIwuvRAOwRK71pEisZ1nkYnKMP_n2Zm1-R-xgVjOri6QAZbNp0kgEf-g4_70xCgAsi2QEjpy1500ZnOiWPaHgLWfqOFKEbT62cSLPzbiuA2kwS3uTKA/s1600/100_2036.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Opened to the public in 1992, the park had a collection of over 240 works, including sculptures by renowned artists Clement Meadmore, Anthony Caro, Beverly Pepper, Kiki Smith, and New Jersey sculptor George Segal. Some of the works in the collection were commissioned specifically for the sculpture park, such as Magdalena Abakanowicz’s <i>Space of Stone</i> and New Jersey artist Isaac Witkin’s <i>Garden State</i>. <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/freshsqueezedart/GroundsForSculpture#slideshow/5194672313898774258">Click here for more pics.</a></div><br />
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</div>Food was a major aspect of our Trenton adventures. From the calamari at Amici Milano’s, in Trenton’s Chambersburg area, to the paella at Malaga Restaurant, at the edge of Chambersburg, to the stuffed cabbage at the Ukrainian church. Trenton’s real contribution to our culinary journey was the <u>Tomato Pie</u>.<br />
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Unlike an ordinary pizza, the Tomato Pie featured the tomato sauce being spread over the toppings. DeLorenzo’s on Hudson Street was one of the local favorites, and we like Top Road on Brunswick Avenue, as well.<br />
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We went to galleries and openings in the area. Rider College, The College of New Jersey, and the Pennington School had shows in LAWRENCEVILLE. HOPEWELL had a variety of locations for Art, such as the Morpeth Studio, Gallery 14, the old train depot, and others. In BORDENTOWN we went to a reception for Russian (now living in Princeton) artist Gennady Spirin at Artful Deposit. PRINCETON, however, was the major local Art resource. And while there were several commercial galleries and Art centers, the <b>Princeton University Art Museum</b> was the place.<br />
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A truly wonderful museum founded in 1882, with everything from the Art of the Ancients to Modern and Contemporary. There were over 72,000 works of Art. The collections included paintings from Fra Angelica to Willen de Koonig. Click here to see more pictures.</div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Black Friday</i> by Willen de Koonig</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Gypsy with Cigarett</i>e by Paul Gaugin</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>At the Window</i>, 1872 by Winslow Homer</td></tr>
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There were also more than twenty sculptures around campus that made up the Putnam Collection. Sculptures like Henry Moore's <i>Oval with Points</i> and Louise Nevelson's <i>Atmosphere and Environment X</i>. At least one of those artworks has an interesting story. Alexander Calder's <i>Five Disks: One Empty</i>, 1969-70, was intentionally painted in Princeton's colors of orange and black. Calder, however, was very displeased and had the orange blackened as that was not one of his colors. <a href="http://tigernet.princeton.edu/%7Eptoniana/sculpture.pdf">Click here for a full list. </a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Calder</td></tr>
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For me the premiere attraction in this area, was the <b>Delaware & Raritan Bike Trail</b>. In its heyday (1834-1933) the main canal connecting the Delaware and Raritan rivers from Trenton to New Brunswick was used for transporting mainly coal from Pennsylvania to the industrial cities in northern New Jersey and New York City. Now there are sixty miles of bike trails.</div><br />
While the trail went all the way through Trenton, a good place to begin a ride north was at Upper Ferry Road. The trail and canal followed the Delaware pretty closely providing lovely views. It was a beautiful ride, especially in the autumn. In addition to views, this trail offered a variety of sites and attractions along the way.<br />
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</div>WASHINGTON’S CROSSING was where Washington crossed the Delaware. There were parks on both sides of the river. We attended the reenactment which had not been held for a number of years due to freezing and snowy conditions. However, while it was cold and rainy, the reenactors made the trip across the river without mishap.<br />
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</div>Up through Titusville, past the Golden Nugget antique flea market and on to Lambertville. That was about an eleven-mile ride.<br />
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LAMBERTVILLE was a real Art town. Of course, it was across the river from New Hope, PA, a famous and historic Art town, having hosted Art Tourists since the 1800s. In addition to more than twenty-five Art galleries and the beauty of the Delaware River, Lambertville was full of charm and offered many restaurants and shops. Lambertville and New Hope held Art openings on the Second Saturday of each month. More about New Hope later.<br />
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Continuing again on the bicycle trip north, the next town was STOCKTON, about three and a half-miles. The Covered Bridge Artisans held studio tours around Stockton, Sargeantsville and Lambertville. Another cute town, the highlight here is just north of town at Prallsville, the site of a mill since around 1720. There was an Art gallery in the old linseed mill.<br />
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</div>Twelve miles upriver is FRENCHTOWN. Another really nice town of about 1,500 residents. Several galleries, shops, and nice old buildings. The bike trail continued for a while north of town, but then it ended.<br />
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<u>MIDDLE JERSEY</u><br />
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We took lots of trips around the area to find what Art we could. From idyllic country settings to inner city, there was lots to see. Let’s start with the <b>Hunterdon Museum of Art</b> in CLINTON, just north of I-78. A nineteenth century stone mill (that has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1952) was converted into a lovely space for enjoying Art. Changing exhibitions of contemporary Art were offered. The nearby main street was also very nice. I found it remarkable that this town of 2,600 supported two bead stores.<br />
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</div>The <b>Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum</b> was part of Rutgers University in NEW BRUNSWICK. Collections there comprised a number of areas of focus with over 60,000 works of art. Strengths include Russian and Soviet art, 19th-century French Art and American Art from the 19th and 20th centuries.<br />
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</div>Heading north to NEWARK, we found the <b>Newark Art Museum </b>surrounded by heavy construction. Looked like they were putting in trolley tracks from the train station toward the downtown. We didn’t explore too much. The museum had impressive collections including many from the Hudson River School. There were also paintings by Childe Hassam, Mary Cassat, John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer and several by George Inness. Works by other, less known artists were well done. A Calder mobile hung in the atrium.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frederick Childe Hassam, <i>The South Gorge, Appledore, Isles of Shoals</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Mrs. Charles Thursby</i> by John Singer Sargent</td></tr>
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</div>There was a recreation of Alfred Steiglitz’s 291 Gallery – the first dedicated to contemporary art. Exhibit featured Max Weber, Marsden Hartley, Robert Motherwell, Arthur Dove and, of course, Georgia O’Keefe. A video showing a few minutes of film recorded in 1903 by Edison’s company: going over the Brooklyn Bridge with the camera mounted on the front of a train; Coney Island, including Steeplechase and Flume; laborers riveting girders on New York skyscraper. There were also works by Louise Nevelson and Edward Hopper. <br />
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Another floor had Chinese & Korean wedding finery; Japanese prints; Tibetan displays. All nicely done. There was an extraordinary collection of ancient glass objects from Israel, Egypt, Rome, & Greece that came mostly from one man that was added to.<br />
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We continued north to MONTCLAIR, a very attractive town, and the <b>Montclair Art Museum.</b> An interesting neoclassical building with two nice sculptures in front.<br />
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</div>After filling out a questionnaire in exchange for ½ price admission, we went out of the modernish (ugly) entry into a more classical museum setting. There was a very nice display of Native American artifacts before the exhibition of Roy Lichtenstein’s works relating to the Native Americans. There were also several examples of artists whose styles Lichtenstein imitated.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #919191;">Roy Lichtenstein, <i>Death of Jane McCrea</i>, 1951</span></td></tr>
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</div>There was a special room for a dozen or so large paintings by George Inness, who happened to be from Montclair. American artists exclusively, there were paintings by many of the Hudson River School. Also, Thomas Cole, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper, and Robert Motherwell. There was a wall sculpture by Louise Nevelson entitled <i>Black Zag A</i> which used found wood (spools, stamp pad handles, clothes pins, moldings).<br />
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</div>The sculpture collection included Saint-Gaudens, Daniel Chester French, Thomas Ball, Elie Nadelman, Chaim Gross, Theodore Roszak, George Segal, Louise Nevelson, and Mel Edwards. The museum had more than 18,000 pieces of Art.<br />
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In an incredible display of overindulgence, the large atrium was being lavishly decorated for the birthday of a 16 year old.<br />
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<u>JERSEY SHORE</u><br />
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Unlike the television show, the Jersey Shore offers plenty of fine Art. Let’s begin in the extreme south with CAPE MAY. Famous for its many Victorian structures, the entire town is a National Historic Landmark. A perfect place for artists, and there are over 150 members of the Art League alone, not to mention several other Art organizations, centers, and co-ops. There are plenty of galleries to visit, if you get tired of the beach.<br />
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I did want to mention one artist in particular. He was a sculptor named Gerald Lynch, a native of Cape May. Before studying sculpture at the Philadelphia College of Art, Lynch got a degree in philosophy. He referred to marble as “earth bone” and felt that to carve it was an honor.<br />
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</div>In addition to many exhibitions in New Jersey and around the country, Lynch received numerous commissions, including the Holocaust Memorial in Brigantine, New Jersey. Following a stroke in the 1980’s he executed a series of more than one hundred sculptures dedicated to the Earth Goddess. He died in 2000 at age 56. In 2006, vandals broke into Lynch’s studio and damaged many of his works. A campaign is underway to fund the repairs.<br />
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In June, I was hired to play in a band accompanying the Hamilton Elks club in the annual <b>Elks Parade</b> in WILDWOOD. That's the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks. Before the parade we visited the historical museum and walked the boardwalk. We heard that the Elks Parade was never canceled due to precipitation and this was no exception, as it rained steadily. This was problematic for me as I couldn’t read the music through my rainy glasses (I had never seen the music before, either). Fortunately, it wasn’t raining hard enough to fill my tuba.<br />
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</div>Marie used to go to OCEAN CITY with her family as a kid. It was a very family-oriented town, with a fabulous boardwalk. This was the home of <b>Mac & Manco Pizza</b> which had three locations on the boardwalk. The spinach white pizza was the thinnest ever, with the melted cheese holding the crust together. Delicious. The staff (all men at our place) were fast, efficient, helpful, accommodating, and young. <br />
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</div>There was a plethora of miniature golf courses and taffy-fudge-popcorn-etc. stores, but not Art. Looked inside the concert hall out on the pier where Marie went to her first classical music concert.<br />
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ATLANTIC CITY was next. I have to admit, we didn’t see any Art, but had a good time walking the boardwalk and the casinos watching people.<br />
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It’s a long way up the coast to our next stop, so let me say something about the Pine Barrens. This was part of the 1.1 million acre Pinelands National Reserve, which occupies 22% of New Jersey. Besides acres of pine trees, 53 million pounds of cranberries and 54 million pounds of blueberries are also produced there every year.<br />
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</div>Also within this area, were a few rivers that offered tubing. The Batsto River was a windy, slow moving river. The float starts at the edge of Wharton State Forest. I also tubed the Mullica and Wading Rivers, which were nearby. <br />
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This was actually a perfect segue to POINT PLEASANT BEACH, home of the <b>Hey Rube, Get a Tube Race and Parade</b>, which happened in mid-September. A parade of zany tubers and outrageous floats, then an ocean tube race, has been run by the Point Pleasant Beach Lions Club for many years. We went to the 35th annual, and it was great fun. Since I had recently published a book about tubing around the world (The Guide to Inner Tubing) they let me march/stroll in the parade and they accepted books for the winning tube racers.<br />
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The race itself started at the top of the beach, where racers ran the hundred feet or so into the Atlantic. They proceeded out for about 50 yards then turned right at a buoy, then up the shore for perhaps 200 yards before returning to the beach, where they had to run to the boardwalk for the finish. We didn’t enter. It was more fun to watch.<br />
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Commemorative mugs were filled and re-filled with locally brewed birch beer. Click here for more pics.<br />
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Also in Point Pleasant Beach, are our friends Tom Hachtman and Joey Epstein who have lived there for at least twenty-five years in a former tourist house, just a couple of blocks from the beach. Tom had had a successful career drawing cartoons for a variety of publications from <i>The Village Voice</i> to <i>National Lampoon</i>. Joey (short for Joellen) is a successful muralist with Three Designing Women. <br />
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While we had many more adventures in New Jersey, they weren’t very Art oriented, so now we’ll look at a few trips we took to the neighboring states.<br />
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<u>NEW YORK</u><br />
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The first time we had a chance to go to The City wasn’t until December when I played in the <b>TubaChristmas Concert in Rockefeller Plaza</b>. We took what became our favorite route: drove to Staten Island, paid $5 in coins for a day’s parking (free on Sundays), and took the free Staten Island Ferry to Manhattan. The #1 train was waiting to take us to 50th & B’way and we walked back down 5th Ave to Rockefeller Plaza.<br />
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</div>First a brief rehearsal deep in the bowels of RP where the sound of a few hundred tubas, baritone and euphoniums bouncing off the concrete was almost deafening. Lots of people dressed up their horns with tinsel-streamers, electric lights, and a wide assortment of decorations. And while most wore TubaChristmas hats and scarves, a wide array of other interesting hats were in evidence. <br />
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Chris Wilhjelm conducted that day, but TubaChristmas founder and old friend of mine, Harvey Phillips made the announcements from his wheelchair. We played all the traditional carols. They just sounded different.<br />
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</div>We made three trips to NYC in March. Once for a taping of <b>The Colbert Report</b>. Then again for the <b>St. Patrick’s Day Parade</b>, and once more to see the <b>Biennial at the Whitney Museum</b>. While in town, we managed to find a few places to see Art.<br />
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What can I say about Stephen Colbert? This was the first season, some were still not sure what he was doing, but the string of Emmys he has won since showed he knew. Although the wait in line was a long one, we had a lot of fun.<br />
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</div>The New York City <b>St. Patrick’s Day Parade</b> is, of course, a legendary event. But having grown up going to the parade in South Boston, I found it rather tame. The majority of units were police, fire, and military. The crowd was never out of control.<br />
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</div>The Whitney Biennial, on the other hand, was. We have always enjoyed going to exhibitions of contemporary Art, although we know that there will be some we like and usually more that we don’t. There was nothing on the first few floors that were even remotely appealing. It was a pleasure to find the top floor, where they displayed the “older” Art by familiar artists.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Claes Oldenburg, <i>Giant BLT (Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato Sandwich),</i> 1963.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joseph Stella, <i>The Brooklyn Bridge</i>- <i>Variation on an Old Theme</i>, 1939</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Georgia O’Keeffe, <i>Summer Days</i>, 1936</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thomas Hart Benton, <i>Poker Night from 'A Streetcar Named Desire'</i>, 1948</td></tr>
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</div>We had both been to the <b>Metropolitan Museum of Art</b> numerous times, over the years, but we stopped in a couple of times anyway. And you know, it’s much too big to describe here. The same can be said for the fabulous <b>Guggenheim Museum</b> (which I love), just down Fifth Avenue. There were, however, plenty of other Art venues for us to explore.<br />
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</div>The new, expanded <b>Museum of Modern Art</b> had reopened just the year before, and my 101-year old New Yorker aunt was flabbergasted by the $20 admission. They did, afterall, double the size of the museum. And it was filled with wonderful stuff which we enjoyed thoroughly. Sixth floor had a Dada exhibit. Fifth and Fourth were galleries with lots of Cézanne, Picasso (large, small, sculpted, etc) and Van Gogh (<i>Joseph Rodin</i>, <i>Olive Trees</i>, and <i>Starry Night</i>). Plus Seurat, Derain, Klimt, a whole room of Matisse, Monet (a room-long painting of just the water lilies, 1920), a room of Mondrian, several Magritte, Rousseau, Degas (<i>At the Millinery)</i>, Miro, Chagal, Kandinsky, Gaughin’s <i>Puppies</i> (1887), <i>The Moon and the Earth</i> and Marie’s favorite, <i>The Seed of the Areoi</i>. <br />
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</div>There was Picasso’s <i>Studio with Plaster Head</i>, several Dali including <i>The Persistence of Memory</i>; Juan Gris, Jasper Johns, lots of Jackson Pollack, Calder, Rauchenberg (not all pop), de Koonig, Oldenburg, Warhol, even Wyeth’s <i>Christina’s World</i> rather ignominiously hung in a small space on the way out of the exhibits.<br />
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Second and Third floors had architecture and drawings, including lots of household items and furniture as Art.<br />
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The Abbey Rockefeller Sculpture Garden (on the ground level), while small, had thirty-one works including Picasso’s <i>She-Goat</i> (1950), Giacometti’s <i>Tall Figure III </i>(1960), Hector Guimard’s <i>Entrance Gate to Paris Subway (Métropolitain) Station</i> (1900), Rodin’s <i>St. John the Baptist Preaching</i> and Gaston Lachaise’s <i>Standing Woman</i> (1932) and works by Alexander Calder, Aristide Maillol, and Henry Moore were also on display. Maillol’s seminal sculpture <i>The River</i> (1938–43) shows a female figure dangling precariously over the edge of one of the pools. Auguste Rodin’s <i>Monument to Balzac</i> (1898) was installed in the lobby. Many more notable sculptors were represented.<br />
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Across the street was the <b>American Folk Art Museum</b>. There were several floors of folk art and lots of commercial stuff I didn’t consider folk art. A special exhibit of <i>Concrete Kingdom Sculptures</i> by Nek Chand was featured. Many years ago Chand created his Rock Garden, in Chandigarth, India (north of Delhi). (<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/freshsqueezedart/NekChandPicassiettePeopleChandigarthIndia02#">Click here for pics</a>.) Allegedly the second biggest tourist attraction after the Taj Mahal. Some concrete figures had been encrusted with volcanic stone. Many were clothed in broken glass bangle bracelets.<br />
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</div>One day we began at <b>The Frick Collection</b>, the former home of Henry Clay Frick, who made his money in coke and steel. There was a special exhibit of Art by the peripatetic pastelist, painter, and miniaturist, Jean-Étienne Liotard. One of the most fascinating and idiosyncratic artists of the eighteenth century. Among the upper-class he painted the thirteen daughters of Maria Theresa – all their names began with Marie or Maria.<br />
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Liotard even named his daughters after the Empress and her daughters. I want to know if he wore a one-piece. There was another small show of Veronese- allegories.<br />
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The permanent collection featured three Rembrandts, an unusually large Vermeer, two Whistler portraits, El Greco, Goya, Velasquez, van Dyke, Titian, J.M.W. Turner, Gainsborough portraits, and Hans Memling. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vermeer's <i>Girl Interrupted at her Music</i></td></tr>
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</div>Also a very nice interior courtyard and round music room.<br />
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Next was the <b>Neue Galerie</b>, a museum for German and Austrian Art. There was a line of people waiting on the sidewalk for an exhibit featuring five large paintings by Gustav Klimt, which opened the day before. One of the first paintings we saw was by Egon Schiele called <i>Town among Greenery (The Old City III)</i>.<br />
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</div>Others were by Paul Klee, Kandinsky, and several Klimts in addition to the special exhibition.<br />
There were photographs of many of the artists.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Adele Bloch-Bauer I,</i> 1907 by Klilmt</td></tr>
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</div>We took the subway to 59th Street to take the tramway over to Roosevelt Island. It wasn’t running, so we decided to walk over the Queensboro Bridge in search of Art. Less than a mile long, we’re told, but it seemed longer.<br />
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On the other side we found the <b>Isamu Noguchi Museum and Garden</b> in an unlikely spot (Vernon Ave, Long Island City), but he has created another world there, populated with his sculptures. Mostly stone with occasional grinding, some stone completely finished, like his “tubes” and “voids.” Noguchi also worked in metal, mostly aluminum.<br />
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</div>Second floor had projects coming from Bucky Fuller and his friendship with Noguchi. Both claimed to be in tune with nature. There was a small sculpture garden, as well.<br />
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We continued down Vernon to where it ends at Broadway to find <b>Socrates Garden</b>. An abandoned riverside landfill and illegal dumpsite until 1986, a coalition of artists and community members, under the leadership of artists Mark di Suvero and Enrico Martignoni, transformed it into an open studio and exhibition space for artists.<br />
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</div><i>Interstate: The American Road Trip</i> was a collaboration between High Desert Test Sites in the Southern California desert, and Socrates Garden. It was an exhibition about cross-country travel, the process of finding a destination, and negotiating the terrain along the way. There were some interesting installations in addition. <br />
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We walked up Broadway to the 31st Street station where we caught a train to Wall Street and the <b>Louise Nevelson Plaza </b>at William and Liberty Streets. There were three or four groups of tall black sculptures. Metal, not her signature wood stuff. Some over forty feet high. All black. <i>Shadows and Flags</i> was installed by the sculptor in 1978, ten years before she passed away.<br />
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</div>We also came upon <i>Charging Bull</i> by Arturo Di Modica which was a favorite for picture taking.<br />
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On our way back to the ferry we came upon the Chase Manhattan Plaza where I notice a Noguchi installation. A sixteen-foot deep circular sunken well was cut for his <i>Sunken Garden</i> (1964), a water sculpture garden with basalt rocks imported from Japan. There was also the sculpture work called <i>Group of Four Trees</i> (1972) by Jean DuBuffet.<br />
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</div>Here's a few more artworks we found along the way:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Trinity Root</i>, 2005 by Steve Tobin</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Joie de Vive</i> by Marc di Suvero</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;">As usual, one of my favorite places for Art is in the NYC subways. I don't have a number, but for over twenty years, the MTA has been commissioning and installing Art; mosaic, terra cotta, bronze, and more. My favorite is <i>Oculus</i> by Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel. Mostly completed in 1998, there are 300 different mosaic eyes - all based on actual human eyes taken from photographs of suubway riders. The centerpiece was not completed when I first saw it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span id="goog_696667030"></span><span id="goog_696667031"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Oculus</i> was installed in the Chambers Street/World Trade Center station, and became the end of the line following the attack on 9/11. Again, when I visited, the centerpiece was inaccesible. But from this photo you can see that woven into the mosaic is a map of the World with NYC at the center. How typical.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.mta.info/mta/aft/">Click here for pictures of Art in the NYC subways</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>We walked down Marcie Avenue into the Italian Williamsburg, until we got to North 8th and Havemeyer Streets, where we encountered crowds. What we saw was a “float” in the shape of a boat, filled with musicians. This was carried on the shoulders of a crew of neighbors who have been doing this for generations. The main gigli was on Havemeyer and was slowly carried toward 8th. We were able to get a spot in front of Our Lady of Carmel to see one hundred men carry a three ton, sixty-five foot tall structure down the street. It would be impossible to adequately describe the scene with words.<br />
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This was the feast day of San Paolino, which has been taking place in Brooklyn for over 100 years, since immigrants arrived from the small southern Italian city of Nola. <a href="http://blip.tv/file/1169872">Click here to see the video</a>.<br />
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</div>One day we drove upstate, just north of West Point, in search of the <b>Storm King Arts Park</b> in MOUNTVILLE, NY. Remarkable legacy of the late Ralph E. Ogden and H. Peter Stern, the 500-acre property bounded by a river and NY Thruway, has merged art and nature as I have never seen before. Often very large sculptures were placed amid swaths of tall native grasses, surrounded by other grasses; or installed in a water setting like the former racing hull which serves as the canvas for Roy Lichtenstein’s <i>Mermaid</i>. Long sweeping vistas punctuated with a variety of sculptures: Calder’s <i>The Arch</i>, Nevelson’s <i>City on the High Mountain</i>, Oldenberg’s <i>Mitt & Ball.</i> <i>The Storm King Wall</i> by Andy Goldsworthy was a favorite as the neatly constructed stone wall went from the top of one hill, down into the pond and continued out the other side of the water and then twisted up the next hill, snaking around trees on the way. Even groves of trees are planted to create a brushstroke. There were more than one hundred post-WW2 sculptures. Click here for more pics.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>City on the High Mountain</i>, 1983 by Louise Nevelson </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Free Ride Home,</i> 1974 by Kenneth Snelson </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Mermaid, </i>1994 by Roy Lichtenstein</td></tr>
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</div>South to Westchester County and the <b>Donald Kendall Sculpture Garden</b> surrounding the Pepsico headquarters in PURCHASE. Work by a lot of big-name sculptors was spread around the grounds. Nicely done, but not as creative as Grounds or Stormking.<br />
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Kendall sought to create a special atmosphere for his employees with forty-five sculptures on 168 well-tended acres. Kendall himself selected the Art by the likes of Alexander Calder, Joan Miró, Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, George Segal, Jean Dubuffet and Auguste Rodin. It is free, and open to the public to enjoy. Click here for more pics.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Max Ernst's <i>Capricorn</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Claes Oldenburg</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barbara Hepworth's <i>Meridian</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Henry Moore's <i>Sheep Piece</i></td></tr>
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</div>Directly across the street at SUNY Purchase is the Neuberger Art Museum and Sculpture Garden. With over 6,000 works of Art, this was the eighth-largest university museum in the US, with works by Romare Bearden, Willen de Kooning, Edward Hopper, Alexander Calder, Georgia O’Keeffe, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and many more.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edward Hopper's <i>Barber Shop</i>, 1931</td></tr>
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</div>Large sculptures were placed throughout the campus. Artists included Alexander Archipenko, Alexander Calder, Andy Goldsworthy, Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, and Isamu Noguchi.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andy Goldsworthy -<i> East Coast Cairn</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Henry Moore - Two Forms, 1969</td></tr>
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</div>We drove west, toward the Hudson, and found the town of SLEEPY HOLLOW and <b>Kykuit</b>, the estate of Nelson Rockefeller. While the town was very pretty, the estate was closed for the season. Also closed was the <b>Union Church</b>.<br />
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Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brancusi, Jean Arp, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, Louise Nevelson, and David Smith are just some of the artists who created the 120 sculptures at Kykuit. Actually, Rockefeller gave away many more.<br />
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</div>The Union Church features a stained glass window by Henri Matisse and nine windows by Marc Chagall. <br />
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<u>PHILADELPHIA</u><br />
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It was only a three-quarters of an hour drive to Philadelphia, so we visited fairly often. In September we went to the <b>Museum of Art</b> for the last day of <i>French Sketches</i> (nice show, included at least one of each major French artist plus lots of others). There was also jazz on Fridays and we got a sneak preview of new acquisition <i>The Mermaid</i> by Edvard Munch, along with a display of other Munch mermaids. The new acquisition is not on canvas but rather an old door. Being in Marie’s hometown, we’ve been to this museum many times in the past.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Mermaid </i>by Edvard Munch</td></tr>
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</div>One of the largest Art museums in the United States, PMA is home to over 225,000 objects ranging from 3,000 BC to the present. The American collections are among the finest in the country. Gallery highlights include works from Botticelli to Ellsworth Kelly, Hieronymus Bosch to Dadist Marcel Duchamp, Fra Angelico to Man Ray, Lucas Cranach to Salvado Dali. You get the idea. It’s got everything, including the serene and very rare ceremonial teahouse, <i>Sunkaraku</i>, erected on the top floor in 1928, originally built in Japan in 1917. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marcel Duchamp - <i>Chocolate Grinder No 1</i>, 1913</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ellsworth Kelly - <i>Two Blacks, White and Blue</i>, 1955</td></tr>
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</div>While we are usually more interested in paintings and sculpture, there were extensive collections of tapestries, armor, and Presidential china from Washington to Reagan. I was especially interested that Saint-Gaudens' <i>Diana</i>, which once graced the top of Madison Square Garden was in Philly and not NYC.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diana by Saint-Gaudens</td></tr>
</tbody></table>We went into town another time for a free performance of <i>Musical of Musical</i>s at the <b>Hal Prince Music Theatre</b>. While there we got tickets for <i>Einstein’s Brain</i> at 2 for 1 (it was canceled so we saw Cole Porter’s <i>Pirates</i> instead).<br />
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While there are countless galleries in Philly, we saw more than a few at <b>First Friday</b> in the old city can be found between Front and Third, and Market and Vine Streets. <b>Gallery Night</b> was held less often and involved about a dozen galleries west of City Hall.<br />
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Had a great visit to the <b>Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art</b> (founded 1805). In celebration of their bicentennial, the show entitled <i>In Private Hands</i> consisted of works from private collections. The first part was in the old building and featured a lot of name artists: Georgia O’Keefe, Arthur Dove, Thomas Eakins, George Inness, John Sargent, Winslow Homer, James Abbot McNeill Whistler, Eward Hopper, Childe Hassam, Mary Cassatt, Cecilia Beaux, etc. Everything was on the second floor. In front was part of the permanent collection. The famous Gilbert Stuart George Washingtons, the Family Peale (Rembrant, Charles Wilson, Raphaelle, Titian, Rubens, Emma), Benjamin West, and John Copley.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Albert Bierstadt , <i>Wind River Wyoming</i>, ca. 1870</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Romare Bearden's <i>Morning,</i> 1975</td></tr>
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</div>The second part of the show was in the building across the side street and displayed more contemporary artists such as Motherwell, Rauschberg, Lichtenstein. There was even a small Calder mobile hanging high above the staircase.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robert Motherwell - <i>Samurai #2</i>, 1974</td></tr>
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</div>In addition, Philly has the University of the Arts (formerly PCA),<b> </b>Institute of Contemporary Art, and the Moore College of Art and Design. More Art can be found on the campuses of Swarthmore, Rosemont College, and the U of PA. Penn has a fabulous anthropology museum as well.<br />
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Then there’s the Public Art. I remember seeing Claes Oldenburg’s <i>Giant Clothespin</i> across the street from City Hall, the first time I visited Philly. Interestingly, Oldenburg did this as an elongated version of Brancusi’s <i>Kiss</i>. More Oldenburgs have been added. There was <i>Giant Three-Way Plug, Scale A</i>, on the Art Museum parking garage, and <i>Split Button</i> on the Penn campus. This is just a small sample of the public Art.<br />
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</div>The truth is that I could never tell you about all the Art in Philly, but this website comes close. <a href="http://www.philart.net/sitemap.php">Click here</a>. And this does not include all of the murals and other street Art.<br />
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With all these museums, my favorite piece of Art was found in the lobby of the <b>Curtis Publishing Company</b>. Considered one of the major artistic collaborations of the 20th century, <i>Dream Garden</i> is a huge (15’ x 49’) glass mosaic designed by Maxfield Parrish and executed by Louis Comfort Tiffany in 1916. Commissioned by Edward Bok, Editor of Curtis Publishing (home of <i>The Saturday Evening Post</i> and <i>Ladies Home Journal</i>), it took six months to install, utilizing more than 100,000 pieces of glass in 260 colors.<br />
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</div>Purchased by Steve Wynn in 1998, the people of Philadelphia raised the money to buy it back and keep it in its original location.<br />
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We cannot leave the Philadelphia Art scene without talking about mosaic artist, Isaiah Zagar. While most of his work has been done around South Street, including his magnificent <b>Magic Garden</b>, the entire city has benefited from his vision.<br />
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</div>Not really a folk artist (he got a degree in Art from the Pratt Institute) he was greatly influenced by the work of a great many artists. Embedded in lots of this works were the words “Art is the Center of the Real World.” <a href="http://www.gabekphoto.com/portfolio/zagar/magicalgarden.htm">This link has lots of pictures. </a><br />
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New Year’s Day 2006 we were in town for the <b>Mummers Parade</b>. Planning ahead, we took the subway from Frankford (north of the city) to City Hall and walked down Broad to find a spot to watch the parade.<br />
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For the uninitiated a little background is necessary. Each year local clubs compete in one of four categories: Comics, Fancies, String Bands, and Fancy Brigades. They spend all year creating elaborate costumes and scenery, and practicing new songs. They have been doing this for generations. The roots of the Mummers go back to the mid-17th century in Europe and were brought here by various immigrant groups. The earliest documented club was formed in 1840, but the first official parade was held on January 1, 1901. The parade’s theme song is James Bland’s <i>Oh! Dem Golden Slippers </i>and the signature strut, the cakewalk, also came from the South.<br />
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</div>Marie’s family says that her great-grandfather led the Parade in the ‘20s while riding a white horse, though we have no evidence of this. But she’s been to a few parades, as had I. The focus seems to have become more and more for the television audience, and the people that come out often don’t get to see anyone perform, as they are saving it for the very crowded tv areas. No more sour grapes. <a href="http://blip.tv/file/1261460">Here’s some video.</a><br />
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Had 11:00 reservations at the <b>Barnes Foundation</b>, located in LOWER MERION. Reservations must be made months in advance. This was considered one of the foremost collections of French Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings in the world with: 181 Renoir, 69 Cézanne, 59 Matisse, 46 Picasso, 21 Soutine, 18 Rousseau, 16 Modigliani, 11 Degas, 7 van Gogh, 6 Seurat, 4 Manet and 4 Monet. There were also paintings by a few Americans and some Old Masters. I wish I could say this was a great collection, but we both found much of the Art “not their best”, with few exceptions. It is a very complicated story that I cannot possibly relate here as to how this collection came to be.<br />
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</div>Also complicated were the stipulations in Albert Barnes’ will that would only allow the public to see the Art two days a week, that the Art could not be lent, nor toured, and many other conditions. After legal battles, in 2004 it was announced that the Barnes would be moved to a site close to the Art Museum, and should be opened in 2012.<br />
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The paintings, hung by Barnes (who made his fortune with an early anti-microbial drug called <i>Argyrol</i>), covered the walls, usually starting with a larger painting low in the middle, with other paintings radiating out, usually symmetrical, often a particular artist could be found in the same location in more than one room: William Glackens, who assisted Barnes with the collection, had numerous paintings and sketches. Same was true of Maurice and Charles Pendergast.<br />
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The main gallery featured large works, including Picasso’s <i>The Peasants</i> and Seurat’s <i>The Bathers</i>. One wall was topped with arched murals by Matisse done on site for Barnes.<br />
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About a half-hour north of Philadelphia, we found <b>Woodmere Museum</b> in CHESTNUT HILL. Charles Knox Smith, who made his money in sulfur and coke, founded this museum, opened in 1940. The collection, which was housed in Smith’s former mansion, focused on artists from the Delaware Valley and included works by Thomas Anshutz, Severo Antonelli, Jasper Cropsey, Edward Moran, Violet Oakley, Herbert Pullinger, Benjamin West and N.C. Wyeth.<br />
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</div>This piece by N.C. Wyeth was one of the best one they had.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">N.C. Wyeth - <i>Anthony and Mr. Bonnyfeather</i>, ca. 1934</td></tr>
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Just up the road a piece was <b>Abington Arts Center</b> in JENKINTOWN, the former estate of Sears president Lessing J. Rosenwald. The house had a couple of beautiful Art Deco rooms (one with lots of copper colors). The exhibition inside mirrored the one outdoors which involved nature, wood, and burnt wood.<br />
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Outside was an easy-to-follow pathway around the house, through the woods, and back. The show was up for one year; many of the works utilized materials found on the site: rearranged sticks, stones, etc. Others used more traditional media such as aluminum, plexiglass, etc.<br />
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</div>Some of the artists included: Joy Episalla, Robert Lobe, Jeanne Jaffe, Thomas Matsuda, Brian McCutcheon, Steve Tobin, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Jay Walker, and A Reclamation Garden by Winifred Lutz.<br />
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</div>Steven Segel created his largest sculpture in North America here with the help of volunteers. They stacked more than 20,000 pounds of newspaper to create <i>Scale</i>, which appeared to be made of stone, echoing the piled strata from the natural world.<br />
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</div>One day we took a drive to<b> Hawk Mountain</b>, northwest of Allentown, for the annual hawk count. We didn’t see many, though the count was several hundred for the day. On the way back we stopped at the <b>Moravian Pottery & Tile Works,</b> near DOYLESTOWN. <br />
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</div>Henry Chapman Mercer (1856 -1930) was a bit of eccentric. He earned degrees from Harvard and Penn then spent years traveling in Europe. In 1907 he built <b>Fontville</b>, his home in Bucks County, using poured cement to spectacular effect. Five years later, he again used concrete to build the Moravian Pottery & Tile Works, and produced a line of tiles utilizing traditional design and techniques. Mercer was considered a major player in the American Arts & Crafts movement.<br />
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</div>The following year he began building a third poured-in-place structure in the center of Doylestown. The six-story building housed his huge collection of tools and other useful things. Upon completion in 1916, he it turned over to the Bucks County Historical Society, which he helped found.<br />
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</div>I’m afraid this is another case where I cannot adequately describe any of these buildings and what was inside. All were fascinating, unique, and wonderful.<br />
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NEW HOPE is also in Bucks County. While Marie was still working in Trenton, we spent the last six months living in New Hope. As I mentioned previously, this is a town that has been into Art for a long time. In 1828 a Native American figure ten feet in height was made of heavy sheet iron by Samuel Cooper and then painted by Joseph Moon. It remained a familiar landmark for many years and stood by the Logan Inn.<br />
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Around the turn of last century, artists began arriving in force. First to come in 1898, was William Langston Lathrop who was deemed “Father of the School.” Later that same year, Edward Redfield arrived, and then others, and before long the New Hope Art Colony was born.<br />
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</div>Many organizations and groups formed within the colony, ultimately resulting in a split between the Impressionists and the Modernists. In 1929 the old Phillips Mill property was purchased for use as a venue, and is still showing Art to this day.<br />
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</div>There’s something about that town that makes you want to paint. I even did a few paintings. No comments, please.<br />
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</div>Marie also painted. She got 1st Prize for her “snowman” painting of Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton at WinterFest. (After the famous duel in Weehawken, NJ, Burr fled to New Hope.) And then she had a successful solo show at the Ed Adams Gallery.<br />
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</div>There were about twenty-five galleries in New Hope, and weekends were busy times. The New Hope Art Center, which was very new, offered a variety of shows that were very enjoyable. But our favorite thing to do in New Hope, was to walk across the bridge to Lambertville, and look at the Delaware River in all its glory.<br />
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The Delaware is a great river for tubing too!Xtreme Art Touristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575440062797655355noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175942944024083193.post-72916173495024597322010-08-24T15:24:00.007-04:002010-09-15T04:32:32.870-04:00Birthday Weekend in Richmond, VA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://xtremearttourists1.blogspot.com/2010/08/birthday-weekend-in-richmond-va.html" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9t50j8WROYNCZVgWeXRo3e7yZLQ0BMdPE3UF7K2Tdgw8Q5Yr5f9v5H9rcZecT4D_9V7SRI_MPyz76-nI0493-25wA3xeHFW_j6hWz8ERi2FCnVInLcoHkPkvy6xeBxzkzmI-atkQcreM/s320/paul+p12.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><a name='more'></a>(2010) What do you do when you discover on Wednesday that your best friend is having his 60th birthday party on Saturday? Well, I traded in a bunch of frequent flier miles and got a flight to RICHMOND, VA for the celebration weekend. Of course, as an Xtreme Art Tourist, I found time, between the celebrating and recovering, to see some Art in Richmond.<br />
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There wasn’t much time, but I’d love to share with you what I saw, beginning with the <b>Haskell Gallery</b> at the Jacksonville (FL) airport. The show was a group exhibit by sculptors David Ponsler, Enzo Tocoletti, and David Engdahl. Sculpture works very well in the L-shaped gallery, and the quality was outstanding.<br />
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</div>The travel, preparation, and the big party took up Saturday, and recovery took a bit of Sunday, but I had the opportunity to visit with Richmond sculptor <b>Paul DiPasquale</b>. I have known Paul’s work for many years and enjoyed seeing the massive <i>Connecticut</i> at the Diamond, when the Braves played there, and the<i> Headman </i>down on Brown’s Island. There were problems as to what was to become of <i>CT</i>, since the Braves left town. <br />
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Paul’s most recent success was the thirty-four foot high sculpture of <i>Neptune</i> on Virginia Beach. The casting of the bronze, which was done in China, was very complex, very difficult, and filled with intrigue. The story of this adventure was documented on a dvd, exposing middlemen who forced shoddy workmanship and outright improper casting.<br />
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</div>Inside Paul’s house was <i>Diana</i>, a sculpture from his post-grad days. The blue-skinned dancer was grabbing the Bar. Or was it the athlete preparing to throw a lance?<br />
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</div>Upstairs in the hallway was a man in a bathtub. I’m sorry I couldn’t get the tub’s feet into the shot, but they are the ball & claw feet, letting go of the balls as the tub morphs and the subject zones out. Contemplating his big toe.<br />
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</div>Out in the workshop/studio, we looked at some of Paul’s <i>Ears</i>, as well as a few pieces he has done utilizing destroyed guns that were used in the commission of a crime.<br />
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</div>Paul's civic involvement includes committees such as the one keeping oversight on any proposed tree removal. So we (with the dogs Calvin and Lisa) drove the short distance where two other committee members were already examining the roots of the three big sycamore trees the City wanted removed.<br />
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</div>Before <i>Neptune</i>, Paul did a monument for <b>Arthur Ashe</b> on Monument Avenue. For those of you not aware, Monument Avenue was named as such because of the monumental statuary of individuals espousing the Confederate cause. There were those who thought that the integration was a bad thing.<br />
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</div>It was an impressive display of Ashe bestowing his gifts of knowledge and athletics to the kids. All out of reach of the vandals.<br />
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</div>Out front, on the Boulevard was <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><i>Arches and Column</i> by Lee Kelly</span>:<br />
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</div>I took a few of photos of Art that caught my eye and put most of them in another file. <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/104035898004417451784/RichmondVA#slideshow/5509025804838175394">Click here to see them.</a><br />
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</div>My time in Richmond was coming to an end, but we stopped along the way to shoot a couple more pieces of Art:<br />
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<i>Reconciliation Triangle</i> on East Main Street, was an interesting story. In 1990, three thirteen-foot bronze sculptures by Stephen Broadbent were erected in Liverpool, England; Glasgow, Scotland; and Belfast, Northern Ireland, as part of an act of contrition for the cities' participation in the abomination of selling and buying human beings. In 2004, <i>Reconciliation Statues</i> were presented to representatives from Cotonou, Benin and Richmond, Virginia, which were unveiled in 2007, completing the triangular trade route of countries involved in slave trading. <br />
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</div>Nearby was another piece that hung from the underside of Interstate 95, as it went high over the city of Richmond. Under the artwork were old train rails, and under them was a canal. The sculpture was supposed to represent the three modes of transportation.<br />
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And finally, I thought I’d include a little of the Art around my friend’s place. <br />
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And this piece by Rudy Heller:<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Of course, there was much more Art in Richmond, from Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Art to the many galleries all over the city. Perhaps in the future I can do another installment. </div>Xtreme Art Touristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575440062797655355noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175942944024083193.post-66220033775270314122010-08-21T09:49:00.006-04:002013-11-29T13:05:25.132-05:00South of France<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a name='more'></a>(2010) This early springtime trip began in Southwest France; up in the PYRENEES MOUNTAINS where there are a number of limestone caves with prehistoric artifacts. Only a few have Art, however, and some of those are not open to the public. And if you go during the early shoulder season, the remaining caves are only open on Sundays. We passed carloads of skiers and snowshoers as we made our way up into the snow-covered mountains. Our reward was seeing the soaring steel entry to <b>Grotte de Niaux</b>, overlooking the Vicdessos River. The artifacts in this cave are from the Magdalenian period, 11,000-14,000 years BC.<br />
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The advantage of visiting at this time of year was the small group that assembled for the tour. The bad part was that the tour was only in French, but we came to see the artwork, so we happily accepted our flashlights and tagged along. After a half-mile walk through absolutely wonderful caves, we came to the Salon Noir where the walls were covered with fabulous drawings of horses and bison. Some quite sophisticated in the representations. Interestingly, there were also symbols similar to those found in other caves, seemingly far away in Spain. Perhaps it was the chop of a wandering artist.<br />
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After lunch in a charming restaurant in Tarascon sur Ariège, we caught a second show at the <b>Grande Caverne de Bédeilhac</b>, which is in the Ariège region. Also of the Magdalenian period, these caves didn’t have the lovely entryway like Niaux (as a matter of fact the ticket office/gift shop was built by the Nazis when they used the cave during the war). We were the only visitors that day so the young woman was able to give us an excellent tour in English. In addition to paintings, the stars here are the relief carvings of horses and clay molds of bison. Some of the stalagmites and stalactites were spectacular.<br />
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One of the tenets of the Extreme Art Tourist is that one must expand the usual definitions for Art, and then obsessively search for ways to change them even more. For example, while in Tarascon for lunch, we spotted a storefront which featured wonderful mosaic tile work. And it was here I first spotted the green glazed ceramic dragon-headed downspouts which are found in the area.<br />
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We actually began our tour the day before in LIMOUX, just north of the caves. The reason for this visit was to see the last weekend of Fècos (Occitan – the old local language- for “carnival”). Two little parades began on opposite sides of town, at the ancient city gates, and proceeded to the center. Each group featured men and boys wearing masks and dressing up in a variety of costumes - a good many as women, but others dressed according to the theme of the parade.<br />
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One told a story about hunters & prey. The hunter’s gun, however, was loaded with carrots while other hunters wore high heels, a bustier, and/or a wig. They are followed by a band of musicians who played their parts with gusto, but sometimes had to break away to hug a friend on the sidewalk.<br />
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The other group had men with a great assortment of costumes, but many in healthcare, especially nurses. Both groups proceeded to the Place de la République, a central square surrounded by stone arcades and timber-framed buildings. The participants then paraded into several of the bars on their way around the square. Is this not Art? <a href="http://youtu.be/FYA-SaOZ4uQ">Click here to see video</a>.<br />
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There was, in Limoux, a museum which we were able to visit before the afternoon activities, which included more dancing and music and a troop of bicyclists peddling through town wearing blue smocks, berets plus big nose/eyebrow glasses accompanied by music blaring from a speaker.<br />
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The<b> Musée Petiet </b>began when the Petiet family of artists donated their collections and their home to the town. Additional private donations, and gifts to the State make up the rest of the collection. The canvases are examples of Art from the second half of the 19th century as painted by the Petiet brothers and sister, Marie, and later Marie’s husband Etienne Bujardin-Beaumetz who did paintings of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. Plus there are paintings by their contemporaries, which they had acquired.<br />
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The house and furnishings are typical of the Belle Epoque, but now are tired and in need of a fresh coat of paint, but otherwise enjoyable.<br />
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<i>Les Blanchisseuses</i> by Marie Petiet</div>
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Before leaving town we visited Sieur d’Arques for a couple of bottles of bubbly. The nuns of St-Hilaire invented “Blanquette” in 1531 - one hundred years before Dom Perignon bottled sparkling wine in the Champagne district. “Blanquette” means "white" in the local Occitan language.<br />
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The next day we began our search for Art along the Mediterranean coast at the birthplace of Fauvism, COLLIOURE. Monsieurs Henri Matisse and André Derain led a group of artists who favored purposeful brushwork and strong colors over the retained realism of the Impressionists. Others in the movement were Raoul Dufy, Alfred Maurer and Georges Braque. They called themselves the “Wild Beasts.” Perhaps so after hoisting a few at the Templar Bar at Collioure’s waterfront, where the walls are covered with artwork left by the Fauvists to cover their bar tabs.<br />
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Visitors to Collioure are invited to follow <i>Le Chemin du Fauvisme</i> in the footsteps along the picturesque harborfront of those artists a century ago. There are posters of paintings by Matisse and Derain, but the most fun outdoor art was<i> Point 2 Vue</i>, a series of twelve frames erected by artist Marc Andre in different parts of the town offering various views of the iconic Notre Dame des Anges.<br />
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Most of the many Art galleries were closed, but that was okay; we looked through the windows. The remaining highlight was the <b>Musée d’Art Modern</b>. Founded by Jean Peské in 1930, exhibitions were offered in the restored home of Gaston Pam. The Art shown comes mainly from the community. Every two years, the winner of the Prix Collioure is invited to work in the museum’s studio for one year. A major exhibition of the artist’s work is displayed at the end of the year and the artist gives one piece to the museum.<br />
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Up the coast from Collioure, SAINT CYPRIEN didn’t look much different from the other small Catalan fishing villages taken over by yacht-filled marinas. But in addition to having a wonderful old 13th century Catalan church that entrances one with its open spaciousness and simplicity in design, Saint Cyprien was home to the collections of François Desnoyer. Desnoyer was a well-known artist of the early to mid-20th century. The all-black galleries of the <b>Centre d’Art Contemporain</b> display many of the 700 pieces (mostly drawings) left by Desnoyer, which includes work by Mattise, Dufy, Chagall, Miro, and Picasso.<br />
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Exploring inland, we find<i> Le Pont du Diable</i>, which leads into the town of Céret. It was built in 1321 and at the time was the largest single arch bridge in the world, a spectacular example of medieval architecture - a single arch over 147 feet across and 82 feet above the River Tech.<br />
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CÉRET is a town that has always attracted artists. N° 3 Rue des Evades de France is where Pablo Picasso stayed during the summers of 1911 (with Fernande Olivier), 1912 and 1913 (with Eva Gouel). It was also home to Georges Braque in 1911 (when he worked side by side with Picasso on Cubist works) and later Pinchus Krémègne who moved here from Paris. And at n° 8 Ed Joffre Boulevard, on the left, was the <b>Musée d’Art Modern </b>which housed an exceptional collection of 20th century works of Art. On both sides of the door are diptychs of glazed lava by Antoni Tapiês. A very contemporary entry in the old town. Inside are galleries filled with paintings by Gris, Braque, Chagal, Dali, Matisse, Picasso, Soutine, Maillol, Dufy and more. Most of whom lived here.<br />
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<i>La Femme a la Fenetre</i> by Leopold Survage</div>
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I think the most impressive sight in the museum the day we were there was not the paintings on the wall - and there were many impressive paintings in the bright airy rooms. It was the crowds of people that came to look at the Art. As usual, there were plenty of seniors, but no tour buses, yet. And also not so unusual were the classes of schoolchildren. What I found a little remarkable was the behavior of the kids. Seated on the floor in front of a large blue painting by Chagall, was a group of, perhaps, pre-school children. They sat quietly while the docent told them stories about the painting. They enthusiastically asked questions and made comments. They were genuinely involved. Oh sure they squirmed occasionally. In other galleries, like the one containing all the bowls in which Picasso had painted scenes of bullfighting, older students were working quietly in groups or gathered together for instruction. Again, you could see that even kids of a cynical age were engaged.<br />
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There was a temporary show by Patrick Jude featuring his very over-sized portraits of the heads of the museum’s workers. It was fun to see the huge painting of the room attendant’s face with her sitting right there.<br />
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Outside we found a charming gallery called <b>Marie 2</b> with local works of Art which were delightful and affordable.<br />
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Another small town with an Art museum was ELNE, just a stones throw (and there were plenty of stones to throw) from Céret. Besides the glass studio across from the tourist office, the artistic attraction was the <b>Musée Terrus d’Art Modern.</b> Finding the place was a challenge in the maze of narrow passageways, but not impossible. Inside were well-done exhibits of watercolor and oil paintings by Étienne Terrus, friend of Mattise and Derain. In addition there are works on display by contemporary artists that had lived in Elne. The WW II memorial in town was called <i>Pomone</i> (below) and was created by well-known sculptor Aristide Maillol.<br />
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The day looked promising, so we headed out to the countryside, following a Route des Vins through THE CORBIERE, so Marie could take a stab at some plein air painting. I’d love to know how they designate a Route des Vins since every road, street, or alley I was on seemed to have grape vines. Some wild and untended, others pruned to within an inch of its life. Some are young plants and many are old gnarly stumps just begging to be painted. We found a scene outside of St. Laurent de la Cabrerisse that was right from Van Gogh’s palette. Problem was, the winds made painting a challenge.<br />
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The Corbiere was considered one of the wildest parts of France. The name comes from the pre-Celtic word for “rock” and the Berre River runs through it. A particularly magnetic area, the top layers of Earth are older than the lower strata.<br />
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Lunch in LAGRASSE (officially one of the most beautiful villages in France) which was supposed to be a center for potters and other artists. On this weekday noon it proved to be a virtual ghost town.<br />
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The <b>Musée des Beaux-Arts</b> was closed when we got to CARCASSONNE, but there was plenty to do while we waited. It was just a short walk to the fairytale medieval city in one direction and a vibrant, working city in the other. We did a little of both.<br />
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The museum began with 102 paintings in 1845. With additional donations and bequests through the years and acquisitions made by the Town Council, the museums collections provide a wide-ranging display of Art from the 17th - 20th century, now housed in a former courthouse. A delightful exhibition of Art with a musical theme was shown on the ground floor.<br />
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Back toward the coast. The heydays of PERPIGNAN came during the time when it was the continental capital of the Kingdom of Majorca, around 1275. Later fortunes were made trading wine. The <b>Musée des Beaux Arts Hyacinthe Rigaud </b>can be found in the old quarter of town close to the shops and restaurants. Originally the building was the mansion of the Marquis de Blanes, then the Lazerme Hotel in the 19th century. Artists such as Chagal, Cocteau, and Picasso made long stays there. And while the museum was founded in 1820 and later named for Hyacinthe Rigaud, a portrait painter for Louis XIV who was born in Perpignan, the museum has been in its current quarters since 1979. The permanent collection included works by Picasso, Terrus, Dufy, Maillol, David and, of course, Rigaud.<br />
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While I couldn’t find other museums of Art in town, it didn’t take long to notice a good number of sculptures of women, including a Maillol..<br />
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Continuing up the coast. Formerly the capital of southern Gaul, NARBONNE was once a port city. But though the harbors have long since silted in, you can witness its antiquity with a section of the Via Domitia. This highway from Italy to Spain was constructed by the Emperor Domitia in 118 BC. Narbonne, the first Roman colony outside of Italy, was the major settlement at the intersection with Via Aquitania, which continued toward the Atlantic Ocean via Toulouse and Bordeaux.<br />
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Even road construction can be artistic, though that may be pushing it. Narbonne was also an important stop on the Canal de la Robine, which connected with the Canal du Midi, which continues across France to the Atlantic Ocean. All pretty as a picture.<br />
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The <b>Musé</b><b>e d’Art et d’Histoire</b> was located within the massive medieval municipal building, formerly the Archbishop’s Palace. Past the Mayor’s office, the Police and the “salle de marriage,” we found an old courtyard with a wide stone staircase and began to climb. Up a couple of floors, we spotted some Art through a doorway, but it was not the museum. This beautiful room with painted panel ceiling, massive fireplace, and elegant furnishings was being used for a show and sale of local – I could only assume – mostly amateur painters. The prices were professional, however. No, we had to continue climbing the tower to the top level. The museum was housed in what were once the lavish apartments of the Archbishop himself, and has an interesting collection of paintings from different schools and countries including works by Tintoretto, Ribera and Brueghel as well as painters of Languedoc. Some rooms with decorated ceilings and ancient mosaics on the floors were filled with ceramics, furniture and other non-paintings.<br />
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Two new galleries were specially designed to display the first permanent public collection of Orientalist paintings in France. The rooms have colorful arches and other devices to create some very suitable space for the 125 works by Dinet, Fromentin, Majorelle, Benjamin Constant and others.<br />
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<i>Black Guard to the Marrakech Palm Grove</i> by Jackquest Marjorelle</div>
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<i>Fighting around a penny</i> by Etienne Dinat</div>
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This part of the Languedoc coast was lined with saltwater lakes often separated by just a narrow strip of land from the Mediterranean Sea. Suddenly there was an almost round wide spot. That was SETE. Though inhabited since the Bronze Age, the city of Sète was created in 1666 when the port was constructed. Still an important fishing port, Art co-exists here very nicely. Almost everything faced the fishing boat-lined canals that divide Sète. Over by a big pile of fishing nets, we found the <b>Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon</b>. This spacious former warehouse offered lots of space for any kind of contemporary Art. There were three exhibitions: <i>Drink in Park</i> by Florence Paradeis, <i>Lighting Dark</i> by Sylvain Rousseau and <i>Soul to Soul </i>by Chourouk Hriech.<br />
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After stopping at several galleries with a variety of Art (even a real estate office with its walls hung with paintings), we found the <b>Musée International des Arts Modestes</b> on the other side of the canal. In what seemed to be an old theater, there was a large show called <i>Sur le Fil, Deviances Textiles – an exposition of contemporary textile art</i>. Very interesting stuff and we were there with a couple of groups of teenage students who seemed to be enjoying it as well.<br />
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At this point we moved our base of operations from Argeles Plage to Eygalieres, on the edge of the Alpilles, just east of St. Remy.<br />
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MONTPELLIER was the next city up the coast from Sète. An historic college town and capital of the Department of Herault, we found Montepellier to be the most fascinating city on our tour. Art was everywhere you looked. From the playground filled with imaginative forms based on music in the Place de la Comédie, and the photography show outside nearby to the many colorful sculptures, we knew Art was an important element in this town.<br />
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Making our way through the narrow stone streets of the old town on our way to the ancient medical college (1221 AD) we found <b>Carré Saint Anne</b>. Once a great church, it was a vast space for the display of Art. The show was Stephane Pencréach’s<i> The beginning, middle, end.</i><br />
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Within the medical school was the <b>Musée Atger</b>, considered one of the richest collections of French drawings anywhere. The medieval school building presented an interesting challenge to finding Art. Long cold hallways, students who didn’t know where the museum was, and the climb up the long winding stone staircase. Up past the morphology sculpture by Jean Antoine Houdon called <i>L’Écorché</i> (1769), which shows the musculature underneath the skin of the figure, to the top. The door was locked so we rang the bell for admittance. Around the inside of the tall ceilinged rooms were many plain wooden cabinets. Each was labeled as to the dates of the drawings found on hinged panels within, from the 15th to 19th century. Methodically, we went through each cabinet opening first the left panel, then the right, then the left, et cetera. The opposite must be observed when you are finished looking at the Art. If you fold the panels back incorrectly, the cabinet will not close.<br />
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With 1,000 drawings and 5,000 prints in the museum’s collection every subject was covered and seemingly every artist represented. French: Fragonard, Oudry, Philippe de Champaigne, Sébastien Bourdon, Charles Natoire; Italians: Guercino, the Carraches, Titian, Tiepolo; and Dutch & Flemish: Van Dyck and Rubens. There were 500 pieces on display.<br />
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Nearby was a great triumphal arch from the late 17th century that overlooked the oldest botanical gardens in France (1593), but we had to hurry back to the Place de la Comédie (locally called “L’Oeuf” because of the park’s oval/egg shape) to the <b>Musée Fabre</b>. We got there a little late so began with the Houdon exhibit that just opened entitled <i>Sculpture and Sensibility</i>.<br />
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As one of the most famous French artists of the eighteenth century, Jean-Antoine Houdon was the sculptor of the “Enlightenment,” and the most successful portrait sculptor of his time. He worked in France, Germany, Russia, Italy, and the United States of America, creating not only portraits of middle-class clients, French and American philosophers of the Enlightenment like Voltaire, Denis Diderot, and Benjamin Franklin; but also of rulers such as Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, Louis XVI, Napoleon I, and George Washington.<br />
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The exhibition centers on the shivering form of Houdon’s<i> La Frileuse</i>, the marble personification of winter. Nineteen of the forty pieces in the show are Houdon’s, done in various materials. This was complimented with work by his contemporaries.<br />
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The Musée Fabre had more than fifty rooms covering the spectrum of artistic periods. Our faves coming in rooms 37-45 “le modernite” (1850-1914) where we were delighted to find work by the husband and wife painters Robert and Sonia Delaunay.<br />
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Montpellier had a new tramway system and even turned that into an Art Gallery of work that could be seen from the tram:<br />
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<i>Tribute to Confucius</i> by Alain Jacquet at stop Sci. & Humans Univs<br />
<i>Human Constellation</i> by Chen Zhen at stop Mosson<br />
<i>Untitled by Ludger</i> at stop Port Marianne<br />
<i>Allegories</i> by Allan McCollum at stop Corum<br />
<i>The Voyage</i> by Sarkis at Gare St. Roch stop<br />
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Seeing the Houdon sculpture led me to remember the exquisite Houdon statue of George Washington which I have seen many times in the rotunda of the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond. Coincidentally, the building itself was designed by Thomas Jefferson after the Roman Maison Carré in Nimes. When we got to NIMES, the Maison Carré was closed for restoration. Across the street, however, was the <b>Carré d’Art/Musé</b><b>e d’Art Contemporain</b>. A great glass building with a glass staircase housed a “médiatèque” (which was what they were beginning to call libraries in France) on the lower floors and the museum on the upper levels. The space was well suited for extra large contemporary Art pieces and installations.<br />
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On the top floor was a show of Art by Michael Raedecker and Isa Melsheimer. Raedecker’s grey monochromes with their wool and thread add-ons were very effective and Melsheimer’s embroidery was outstanding. Downstairs were installations by Giuseppe Penone, Gabriel Orozco, Wolfgang Laib, and Mario Merz; and paintings by Martial Raysse, Gerhard Richter, and Albert Oehlen, among others.<br />
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<i>Frame</i> by Michael Raedecker</div>
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There was even an Art show in the médiathèque downstairs.<br />
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After lunch, there was the <b>Musée des Beaux Arts de Nimes</b>. Another lovely building from 1907 with an entrance outlined with an unusual, almost deco mosaic. The inside courtyard was dominated by a huge Roman floor mosaic illustrating the marriage of Admetus. The surrounding grandiose rooms displayed some very large paintings that filled each wall with a pantheon of characters. French, Flemish, Dutch, Italian. There were 3,600 works in the collection. All were there, notably Rubens, della Robbia, and Delaroche.<br />
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We were soon pleasantly distracted by the echoing sound of young voices singing somewhere in the museum. Following the sound up the stairs and through a few galleries we found the singers rehearsing. It was boys and girls of various ages with a very intense and energetic conductor who also sang the solos. There was no messing around here. It was great to see these young people take their task so seriously. They were on break a little while later, and I can assure you they were just kids.<br />
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The exhibition finished with a show of Henry Clamens, born in Nimes in 1905.<br />
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We visited the famed Jardin des Fontaines and found the fountains unfilled and not operating. Another piece that features water, but was not running was in Place d’Assas. Designed by Martial Raysse in 1989, running water flows between two monumental heads representing <i>Nemausa</i>, the spring that gave Nimes its name, and <i>Nemausu</i>s, the “male force” of the town.<br />
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Finally, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that Nimes was well known for making a heavy blue cloth. Since it was made in Nimes, it was cloth “de Nimes.” Say it faster.<br />
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The <b>Musée Calvet </b>in AVIGNON was an old museum with old Art. This was another museum begun by the bequest of a personal collection, in this case Esprit Calvet, who died in 1810. The museum building was from the mid-16th century and contained a bit of everything.<br />
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Mr. Calvet put together a scholarly collection including artifacts from Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Africa. With additional collections and donations, along with the French way of exchanging Art from one museum to another, the museum now has works by painters and sculptors including Corot, Manet, Bonnard, Dufy, Soutine and many others.<br />
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Unfortunately, we were not able to see the <b>Collection Lambert Musée d’Art Contemporain</b> because they were between shows and therefore closed. Established in 2000 with a loan of 350 artworks, the collection boasted more than 1200 works. Minimal Art, Conceptual Art, Land Art, the diverse collection of Yvon Lambert fought against the academicism of French painting. Too bad we missed it.<br />
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We did, however, find the <b>Musée Angladon </b>to be an excellent substitute. The collection had an interesting history begun by couturier and Art collector Jacques Doucet (1853-1929). Some of that collection, such as Rousseau’s <i>The Snake Charmer</i>, now in the Orsay, and the <i>Demoiselles d’Avignon</i> by Picasso, now in MOMA, were donated and others were sold, but the remainder was left to his nephew, Jean Dubrujeaud, who then left it for his son Jean, an artist who had taken to using his mother’s family name. The collection is now open to the public and masterpieces by Degas, Daumier, Manet, Sisley, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Picasso, Modigliani, Derain and more can be seen, as well as medieval sculptures, Renaissance furnishings, porcelain from the Tang dynasty, and other paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries.<br />
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Directly across the street from Musée Angladon, is the <b>Ceccano Médiathèque</b> which was offering a show of Art called <i>Objets rêvés</i> or <i>Objects Dreamed</i> by artists Régine Lathus and Franck Sotelo. A wonderful display of pieces based on puns. French puns, that is, so we didn’t always get them, but many we did and they were all well done.<br />
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“Pan” is French for “bread,” therefore this is a <i>Pan Flute</i></div>
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“Chaise” is French for “chair”.making this a <i>Chaise-burger</i></div>
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Of course we visited a weekly flower market, saw another church-turned-art gallery, checked out the Papal Palace and the famous “pont d’Avignon” of childhood song before leaving town.<br />
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Paul Cézanne was born in AIX-EN-PROVENCE (1839) and died in Aix-en-Provence (1906), so it was no surprise he was celebrated there with <u>In the steps of Paul C</u>é<u>zanne</u>. The tour included the home in which he was born, the Chapellerie, his father's bank, Bourbon College where he became friends with Emile Zola, the family estate - Jas de Bouffan, and the flat where he lived from 1899 to his death. This isn’t our thing usually, so we didn’t go.<br />
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We began, instead, with the <b>Musée Granet</b>. While touting images of Cézanne on posters and flyers, the first two floors of the museum and more, were filled with framed drawings, not even Cézanne’s. Eventually we found the new Cézannes, plus a few other paintings on the top floor. Down on the lower level, which we found by accident, there was an interesting Rembrandt, as well as an Ingres and a large gallery packed with classical sculpture. <br />
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Instead of following Cézanne’s routes or visiting the <b>Vasarely Foundation</b> (Victor Vasarely, father of Op Art) we decided to look for as many fountains as we could. There were around forty of them that once distributed water around the city, from the most ancient <i>Espelunque</i> (15th century) and <i>Fountain of the Four Dolphins </i>(1667), to the grand <i>Rotunda fountain</i> (1860), it was a great way to see a lot of the old city. <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/centerforartlovers/FountainsOfAix#slideshow/5484622480640313394">Click here to see pictures</a>. <br />
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We had two major disappointments on this trip: Marseille and Toulon. Both cities had Art museums, but they were either closed the days we went there, or they were between shows, or they were in the midst of five-year renovations. This happens sometime, especially the long-term renovations. Almost like a physical loss because we missed the chance to see a museum. But we quickly got over it and moved on to the next adventure.<br />
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FREJUS was on our schedule because of the flower festival that began the day we were going through, Good Friday. The displays were small, but very nice, and held in the shadow of a Roman aqueduct ruins. We went into town for lunch and discovered the <i>Circuit des Métiers d’Art Fréjus </i>which recalls the ancient traditions of the town’s craftspeople. The contemporary route of Artisans and Craftsmen includes the whole spectrum of Art among the thirty-two listed on the brochure. We found Claire Monnier at work in her shop and liked very much her techniques, including cement on the surface and the interplay of mosaic and painting.<br />
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We were on the way to our third base of operations in BIOT, halfway between Cannes and Nice. It was actually a campground where we rented a mobile home that was just down the street from the <b>Musée National Fernand Léger</b>, which happened to be open on Easter. This good-size building was constructed in 1959 by his wife Nadia to house some of Leger’s massive works, both inside and out. On the ground floor was a temporary exhibit that included Nadia’s work as well. <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/centerforartlovers/FernandLeger#slideshow/5484110890230161538">Click here for more photos</a>.<br />
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Biot was also known for its glass craftsmen. And while there were many, both in the town center on top of a hill and in a large compound at the bottom, most of what we saw was more on the touristy side than Art.<br />
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The <b>Musé</b><b>e National Marc Chagall </b>was high up on one of NICE’s hillsides. Since we were not the first to make the pilgrimage, however, flights of stairs had been installed to make it “easier.” Of course, you could take the #15 bus or a cab. The setting, however, was perfect for this contemporary building which opened in 1973, perfectly matched for the Art within.<br />
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Sometimes called the Musée du Message Biblique Marc-Chagall (Marc Chagall Museum of Biblical Themes), there were seventeen superbly displayed large canvases depicting biblical scenes and themes in bright, joyous colors. There were also sculptures, stained glass windows, mosaics, tapestries, sketches, engravings, and lithographs from this important 20th-century artist.<br />
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In one large airy room were twelve paintings, each a narrative episode from the Old Testament. The other five paintings illustrate the <i>Song of Songs</i> as variations on love. The artist said that he hoped people would leave the museum having "found a certain peace, a certain religiosity, a feeling of life." Chagall helped open the museum and was active in the museum's life until his death in 1985. <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/centerforartlovers/Chagal#slideshow/5484603722619481570">Click here for pictures</a>.<br />
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Nearby was the <b>Musée Henri Matisse</b> on Cimiez hill in a beautiful 17th century Genoese villa amid Roman ruins and an enormous park. Of course, a contemporary wing has been added to accommodate the 68 paintings (including his 1st piece) and paper cuttings, 236 drawings, 218 engravings, 57 sculptures and 14 illustrated books, plus hundreds of photographs and objects from Matisse’s private collection. Many of the rooms also contained furnishings and objects belonging to Matisse, as well as photos of the artist. There were also temporary exhibitions. Matisse lived in Nice from 1918 until 1954 and the museum opened in 1963. The bulk of the collection was left by the artist and his heirs to the city of Nice.<br />
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In the very heart of Nice was the <b>Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain</b>, (MAMAC) a huge edifice that straddled the roadway and bisected a long park that separated the old port city from the new. Architects Yves Bayrad and Henri Vidal inaugurated their very original tetrapod arch design in 1990, providing three levels with glass passageways for over 43,000 square feet of exhibition space. In addition, there were open terraces on the roof, which provided not only wonderful views of Nice, but a place for additional installations of Art, such as <i>Le Mur</i> de Feu by Yves Klein, and other artworks. Outside the museum, on both sides, were monumental sculptures by favorites such as Calder, di Suvero, Barry Flanagan, Bemar Venet, Sandro Chia, and more. Two extraordinary works by Niki de Saint Phalle adorned the esplanade: <i>Le Monstre du Loch Ness</i> (1993, below) and<i> Les Baigneurs</i> (1983).<br />
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I will not attempt to list all of the artists represented in the permanent collection, though tempted as I am to mention favorites such as Andrew Gormley and Claus Oldenberg. Yves Klein and Niki de Saint Phalle were well represented inside the museum as well as out. The first level was for temporary shows and was filled with wire works by Wim Delvoye and photographic mixed media by Laurence Aëgerter. <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/centerforartlovers/Nice#slideshow/5484127695930951906">Click here to see more pictures.</a><br />
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Outside, on the museum grounds, was Sasha Sosno’s <i>La Tete au Carré</i> (The Square Head), home to four floors of library administrative offices.<br />
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Going west into the stylish residential district, high above the beachside Promenade des Anglais, we found the <b>Musée des Beaux Arts</b>. The interesting old building was built in 1878 for Russian princess Kotchoubey and suits the Art within perfectly. Lots of old, lots of big. Stretching from 13th to 20th centuries. The stars: Dufy (<i>Le Jardin Public à Hyeres</i>), and Rodin (<i>bust of Mme Fenaille</i>), with new faves: pastels by Jules Chéret (<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/centerforartlovers/Cheret#slideshow/5484411317480857490">click here for pics</a>) and watercolors by Gustav-Adolf Mossa des Baumettes. Very enjoyable. <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/centerforartlovers/NiceBeauxArt#slideshow/5484410014253971762">Click here for a few pictures.</a><br />
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<i>La Terre</i> by Cheret, 1900</div>
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Continuing west a few more blocks, the houses got bigger with green gardens between. Here we found the <b>Musée International d'Art Naïf Anatole Jakovsky de la ville de Nice</b>. The museum was in the beautifully restored turn-of-the-century Château Ste-Hélène in the Fabron district. It was once the home of parfumer François Coty. One of the world’s leading Art critics, Anatole Jakovsky, donated his collection of over 600 works by naïve artists from around the world. The exhibit included artworks of all sizes and media, featuring several Croatians artists and, naturally, lots of French, like Henri Rousseau. The cherry on top was the outrageous sculptures by Frédéric Lanovsky (from nearby Cannes), both out on the lawn and looking out from a balcony. <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/centerforartlovers/Naive#slideshow/5484171117679461410">Click here for more pics.</a><br />
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Not finished with Nice yet. The Nice tramway opened in November 2007, serving the city’s northern and eastern suburbs, by way of downtown Nice. Along the way one can see works of Art as part of their Art in the City - an open air museum. Most of the Art was sited near one of the tramway stops, but one of the artworks was the composition and arrangement of music and the vocal announcement that was played for each of the stops, done by Michael Redolfi (Les sonals: annonce vocal et signature musicale.) And the calligraphy for each station was done by Ben, whose work we saw at MAMAC. Here are the rest:<br />
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Pascal Pinaud and Stephane Magnin – <i>Composition Exuberate de Reverberes Hybrides</i></div>
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Michael Craig Martin – <i>Cascade of Objects</i></div>
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Jean-Michel Othoniel – <i>Le Confident </i></div>
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Jaume Plensa – <i>Conversation of Nice</i></div>
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Emmanuel Saulnier – <i>Je Vis de l’Eau Elle s’Ecoule</i></div>
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Gunda Forster – <i>Blue. Hommage au Bleu d’Yves Klein</i></div>
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Pierre di Sciullo – <i>Totems</i></div>
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While searching for the above Art (not always successfully), we came upon the Church of Sainte Jeanne D'Arc. A striking white domed building (sometimes called “meringue”) in the residential Fuon Cauda neighborhood, the inside was dominated by a two-part sculpture done by Charles Sarrabezolles in 1926. It was called <i>Jeanne d’Arc Ecoutant les Voix</i> with Joan on one side of the sanctuary listening to the voices on the other. Very moving.<br />
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Not far from Biot was the town of MOUANS-SARTOUX, home of <b>Espace de l'Art Concret - centre d’art contemporain</b>. While the name of the center relates to the concrete building called Donation Albers-Honegger, it’s the unusual three-tower triangular Castle that lends its image for the logo. The Mouans Castle was built in the early 16th century and while damaged in religious and revolutionary wars, it was rebuilt in the 19th. Now it houses temporary exhibitions of contemporary art. Yona Friedman’s Des Utopies Réalisées was featured.<br />
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Chateau Mouans</div>
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Artwork by Yona Friedman</div>
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For those unaware, the Manifesto of Concrete Art was poured in 1930 and Espace de l’Art de Concret celebrates the artform. Since 1990 Sybil Albers and the artist Gottfried Honegger, Swiss collectors, have worked to establish the Espace de l’Art Concret (EAC). And in 2000, they donated their collections to the French state with the understanding that a building to house the nearly 500 works of art would be constructed. Zurich architects Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer designed said building, which opened its doors in 2004. The outside of the cube-shaped concrete building was stained bright yellow-green making a startling effect behind the spring leaves of the wooded grounds. Inside was a kaleidoscope of Art arranged in a very pleasing manner.<br />
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<i>Espagna Lura</i> by Eduardo Chillida</div>
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We drove all the way to the Italian border to the town of MENTON in order to see their <b>Musée des Beaux Arts</b> because it houses some of the original reliefs and artifacts found in the cave at Bédeilhac. Little did we know it also had a full collection of paintings from a variety of periods, schools, and styles. Or that it would be in the former Carnoles Palace, of the Grimaldi family, princes of Monaco.<br />
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It didn’t matter, because it was closed. So after walking a little around town, we headed back down the coast to MONTE CARLO.<br />
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In researching this trip, I was surprised to discover that Monaco had no Art museum of its own. But at the last minute I saw something about lots of sculptures in the municipality. Turns out the Prince of Monaco has been installing inspiring works by internationally renowned artists. It was a collection of almost 100 creations placed in gardens and parks throughout the Principality. There was a pedestrian walk in the Fontvielle district called the <b>Sculpture Path</b> which had the majority of pieces. Some of those sculptures were on top of the Rock of Monaco, site of the Palace, Cathedral and the oldest part of the city. <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/centerforartlovers/MonteCarloSculpture#slideshow/5464044076478086578">Click here to see sculpture</a>.<br />
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<i>Le Poing</i> by Cesar</div>
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<i>Renaissance</i> by Kim Hamisky</div>
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Continuing down the coast, we came to SAINT JEAN CAP FERRAT, a finger of land just above Nice. It was too late in the day to attempt a visit to the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild which has an art collection and gardens. But when we reached the harbor, we found a sidewalk sculpture show. It seemed rather informal with most sculptures not identified and others that looked like advertising. A delightful surprise at the end of the day. <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/centerforartlovers/StJeanFerret#slideshow/5484414370311936338">Click here for pics</a>.<br />
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That was the end of three weeks, but we still had two more unplanned days to find more Art while heading back to Barcelona. We had read about the marble quarries at CAUNE-MINERVOIS, less than an hour northwest of Narbonne. We also heard it was a quiet town, but I suppose they were talking about during the season. At this time of year it was well beyond quiet.<br />
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Evidence of the beautiful red marble, however, was all over town, starting with a series of sculptures next to the parking lot. Bears, a panther, a bull, and a couple of giant heads remained from the <b>2000 International Stone Sculpture Symposium</b> held there. A sculpture of grapes was in front of the closed restaurant and one of a fine horse’s head just down the street. Well worth the visit. <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/freshsqueezedart/MarbleOfCauneMinervois#">Click here to see more pictures</a>.<br />
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We were just following our noses now, and so continued in a northwesterly route to Mazamet and Castres. At first we thought we found another flower and garden show, but it actually was starting the next day. C’est la vie. We had a nice walk around MAZAMET, buying a hand-carved pussy cat for our pet sitter, taking a few pictures. Almost back to the car we poked our heads into the studio of one Claude Menaldo who did some wild looking paintings and some interesting contraptions in the front room. Claude came in to turn the various pieces on and try to explain how they worked and why. On top of one suitcase were clearly rows of little toys. Disney items were noticeable. He explained that this represented the terracotta army of Qin Shi Huang. After all, he said with a smile, the little pieces in his creation were all made in China.<br />
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Claude (www.artabus.com/cmenaldo)</div>
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CASTRES was a district capital in the Tarn district, still in Languedoc. Home of an École des Beaux Arts and the <b>Musée Goya</b>, Castres was an Art town. After lunch and a lot of walking we found an Art show and competition in the lobby, hallways, and staircases of the beautiful Municipal theatre. I had to pay for the privilege of voting for my favorite. Across the street was the Goya Museum but, to be honest, we don’t really like Goya and it was getting late in the day.<br />
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We closed our trip back in CARCASSONNE, which was just south of Castres, to see Les Amazones. Late in the morning, at the entrance to La Cité (medieval Carcassonne) we witnessed a parade of women wearing various costumes riding sidesaddle on their horses into the walled city. Costumed drivers with carriages joined in, as did several hawk handlers.<br />
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A few hours later these women met at the local hippodrome to participate in dressage competition. Maybe not Art, but beautiful to watch. We stayed for sixteen contestants before leaving for Spain. <a href="http://blip.tv/file/3512517">Click here for video.</a><br />
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<a name='more'></a>(2007) We were actually in Ireland to promote a book about an Irish-American bandleader, so Art wasn’t our primary mission this time. But we managed to see a bit while we were there. Just a couple of days until we were expected in Athlone, near the center of Ireland, and then a few days before having to be in the South. So we began with a short tour through Counties Mayo and Sligo in the northwest.<br />
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First stop was CONG, home of the film, <i>The Quiet Man</i>. No Art here, but a nice little village, not nearly as touristy as we expected. The original country cottage fell apart years ago, so a replica was built - in the town. Cong is in the south of County Mayo, so we drove west and tried to see Croag Patrick, but the mountain was almost completely enshrouded in clouds. As was the sculpture enveloped in fog at its foot along Clew Bay.<br />
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This is the <b>National Famine Memorial</b>, magnificently sculpted by John Behan. It is called <i>Coffin Ship</i> and is the country's largest bronze sculpture. It hauntingly recalls the horror of the Great Hunger that decimated Ireland in the 1840s. Metal skeletons are intertwined to form the ship, which overlooks the bay from which thousands sailed for America, Australia and Canada. The monument was unveiled in 1997 to mark the 150th anniversary of the famine.<br />
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The Mullet Peninsula looked intriguing on the map, so we decided to make BELMULLET our destination for the night. Coming from the south as we approached Belmullet we spotted a sign off to the side of the road that described the <i><b>North Mayo Sculpture Trail</b></i>. We made a couple of notes and immediately were off in search of what appeared to be the nearest sculpture on Claggan Island. There were no signs for Claggan Island, or Point, but we did end up at Trawmore Point where I asked a woman if she knew where the sculpture was. She tried to explain that we needed to go to another point, but that doing the points was grand. And if we followed her to her parents’ house so she could pick up a few things, she will lead us to where we want to go. We met her father and her mother and learned that it was the baby’s birthday, but he was sick the night before and had to go to hospital. The helping woman was a nurse and they were soon to move from their home near Claggan. We followed along the beach, as instructed, to a thin track that connects Claggan to the mainland (it’s really a peninsula), but eventually, our way was blocked by sand drifts (after I had already plowed through several smaller dunes). We began to walk out to the island, when we hailed some kids who said it was a couple of miles to the sculpture, although we later learned that it wasn’t that far. Back to the car, I carefully turned around and drove on the sand back to Belmullet. It’s best to make this journey at low tide when there is more hardpacked sand to drive on. I have included this narrative because it took place while searching for Art.<br />
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After a dinner of pan-fried plaice and a pile of carrots and fries, with a Guiness at An Chéibh (ahn cahve), there was still light enough to venture down the Mullett to look for a couple of sculptures. At the very tip, we found <i>Deirbhle’s Twist</i> amid the wildly strewn rocks near Blacksod Point and then<i> Idir Dhá Sháile</i> at Feorinyeeo Bay.<br />
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Named by artist Michael Bulfin of Dublin, in honour of the sixth century St. Deirbhle, according to tradition she rests at nearby Fál Mór. Water from her well is said to have curative properties for eye complaints. Custom also has it that if you can pass three times through the small east window of her Chapel, heaven is your reward; another says that passing seven times means you will not die by drowning.<br />
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Story goes that a beautiful daughter was promised to a man but she refused marriage. The suitor pressed the issue and followed her about. Deirbhle fled to Fál Mór on Mullet, where she tended to the sick and poor. Eventually the man found her and continued his pursuit. In desperation she asked him what it was about her that made him so inconsolable. When he replied that it was her eyes, she plucked out her own eyeballs and threw them to the ground. The suitor left heartbroken, but where the eyeballs landed, a spring arose from the ground and she used that water to cleanse her eye sockets. The water miraculously restored her sight, and thereafter, people made pilgrimages to the spring/well to be cured.<br />
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We discovered a tourist information open late, so we bought a sculpture trail guide which made finding the next sculpture much easier.<i> Idir Dhá Sháile – Between the Tides</i> - addresses the life cycle of the whale. Katherine West, of Edinburgh, installed this negative-space work next to Mullachroe Beach on Feorinyeeo Bay.<br />
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<b><i>Tír Sáile</i></b> is the name of the North Mayo Sculpture Trail. In 1993, the celebration <i>Mayo 5000</i> dedicated fifteen contemporary sculptures created by artists from Denmark, Japan, Great Britain, the USA and Ireland. From Ballina through Ballycastle to Fallmore, each is situated on a unique and often breath-taking location along the rugged coastline, covering miles of unspoiled beauty along the coast of Northwest Mayo.<br />
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The next day we went to the Mullet’s west/Atlantic coast in search of sculpture. I say search, because signs for <i>Tír Sáile</i> are scarce and the three we looked for in the morning were not in the book. Our hostess told us about them. An American, evidently, had decided to get involved. <br />
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Artist/architect Travis Price, who espouses the philosophy of “Spirit of Place,” brought students to Belmullet to explore what this means by creating these installations.<br />
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Our first stop was on Annagh Point where Price’s piece enjoyed a spectacular setting amid the landscape littered with rock. The ocean is on three sides. Rock, rebar, and steel.<br />
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The next piece was nearby at the end of a 334 stepping stone walkway. Also rock and steel.<br />
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The last of the three was on Deerance Point. A spectacular piece that included a rebar topped enclosure of a blowhole through the rock to the ocean below. The slanted rock entry was also very nice. <br />
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Back in Belmullet we found that the latest project was without Travis Price, but learned that the workers were students from Washington, DC’s Catholic University as they applied slabs of polished granite to the base. Nearby was the <i>Reconnections</i> pedestrian bridge, part of <i>Tír Sáile</i>, built on the site of a previous span by artist George Trakas from Quebec/USA.<br />
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On the way out of town I stopped at An Chéibh to leave a tip for Inga, our waitress. I admired some of the artwork in the bar, so the tender quickly told me about the gallery down the street. But when we got there (this was the first Monday she was open for the season) she had less art and more glass and gifty stuff. The young woman on duty was very nice, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic about Art. She told us about the <b>Tory Island Artists</b> and how to get there, though it was too far north for us, unfortunately. Tory Island is a finger of rock, 9 miles off the coast of Donegal. The school was founded by James Dixon and Derek Hill, who attracted the interest of a few locals who began painting in a unique, yet primative style.<br />
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James Dixon was born in 1887 and while he worked as an islander worked, he was also a self-taught artist. He fished, harvested crops with a sickle, made jewelry, and when a storm raged over the island, he would go to his workshop and paint dramatic scenes. It was in 1956 or 58 when he met Derek Hill, a well-known English painter who spent the summer on the island. The story goes that when Dixon came upon Hill painting a scene, he said, “I can do that.” And when offered paints and brushes by Hill, Dixon replied that he preferred to use the one he made from his donkey’s tail. A friendship developed, and through this, Dixon’s work became known on the mainland of Ireland and England. His art was shown in numerous exhibitions, his first solo show being at The New Gallery in Belfast in 1966, followed by one at Portal Gallery in London.<br />
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There were others on the island who worked in an unsophisticated style and in 1968 there was a group show in Belfast which was well received and they have not looked back. A Tory Island artist painting hangs in the National Arts Association office entry.<br />
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Heading east now, we found the next sculpture in the <i>Tír Sáile</i>, <i>Stratified Shee</i>p by Niall O’Neill of Dublin, in Ballinaboy, but had less luck on the next one, <i>Caochan</i>, near Dun Caochain. It was an open, rather desolate looking part of Ireland. Continuing east we came upon the famous <b>Ceide Fields</b> – site of a Neolithic farm; claiming to be the largest Neolithic site with only a small portion exposed. Stone here was supposed to have been used for a fence and was supposedly dated at 5,000 years old. We may have seen the sculpture <i>Wind Trees</i>, by Nigerian Eilish Ó Baoil, which was supposed to be immediately to the east of Ceide Fields, but we were not sure.<br />
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So we continued on to BALLYCASTLE, home of the <b>Ballinglen Arts Foundation</b> which invited artists to live and work in Ballycastle in Foundation-owned or rented cottages together with studio and gallery space. All art produced is property of the Foundation and was being collected for a future museum of contemporary Irish art. Ballycastle was very small and we had lunch just a few doors down from the gallery. Inside, the walls were covered with pictures signed to the proprietress, Mary.<br />
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We skipped the sculpture at Ballycastle Holiday Cottages and headed back to the coast at Downpatrick Head. Fritze Rind of Denmark’s sculpture <i>Battling Forces</i> was there on the coast. And further up the cliff we found cows, a statue of St. Patrick, and an old concrete lookout bunker with a great view. To the north you can see Dun Briste, a column of stone rising from the ocean.<br />
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We kept going around Downpatrick Head to Rathlocken and Kilcummin Harbor – site of the French Landing of 1788. Not enough for a village, just a few lobster traps, and Simon Thomas’<i> Tonta na mBlianta</i>. The native of Portsmouth, England used a seaside retaining wall for a canvas.<br />
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A helpful local who led us to <i>Tearmann Na Gaoithe (Meditation Hut)</i> by stonecutter Alan Counihan, and explained that <i>Echo of Nawasape</i> could be accessed by walking through the field or driving around. To make a long story short, we walked and walked around and through cow patties. I finished in bare feet, without finding the sculpture. Upon retrieving the car, we found the artwork by Mariyo Tagi from Japan, was on the other side of the road.<br />
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It was getting late so we had to skip the last two sculptures and raced north to SLIGO.<br />
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We stayed at a B&B north of town that catered to horse riders, so the breakfast conversation was interesting, even though it was rainy and cold. We stopped first at <b>Creevykeel</b> a large Neolithic stone tomb, before visiting the grave of William Butler Yeats at the church where his great-grandfather was known as the “Red Headed Rector.” <br />
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The Yeats Society displays interesting photographs in the <b>Yeats Memorial Building</b> downtown. Learned about his brother Jack Butler Yeats who was an artist and the father, John Butler Yeats, was also an artist.<br />
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<i>Morning After the Rain </i>by Jack B. Yeats</div>
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Just up the street we found the <b>shop of Michael Quirke</b>.<br />
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“They’re Heroes – they have no brains.”<br />
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“Heroes are groin-stuck because it’s embarrassing and it takes a long time to die, giving the victim plenty of time for final words.”<br />
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“You Can Never Make Enough Maeves.”<br />
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According to Michael Quirke.<br />
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His father was butcher and he tried his hand at it, but decided to be a wood carver instead. He opened a shop across street and when father died (1960) moved into the old butchery. He left in place the stainless steel window meat racks, great butcher’s blocks, long workbenches, and the white tile walls. He even used the old meat cutting band saw for slicing wood.<br />
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“Men are basic: My sword’s bigger than your sword. Women are more complex.”<br />
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Michael Quirke kept a regular patter going while he worked. He spoke of Odin, Moses, and Genghis Khan. Or names from the Egyptian, Hebrew, Celtic, Christian, and more. Telling story after story. He said that a psychiatrist/friend would come into the shop occasionally and sit there listening to Michael talk to the customers. He said it was his therapy.<br />
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Michael’s carvings were very special on many levels, but primarily, they were good to look at. We got one of Brigid. Gobstuck. Another of Michael’s words.<br />
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We saw a few references to something called the <b>Hazelwood Sculpture Trail</b> which was supposed to be near Sligo, on the north shore of Lough Gill. (Lough Gill is the home of the Yeats' famous <i>Lake Isle of Innisfree</i>.) Tourism didn’t have any information. So with some vague directions, we drove almost to Dromhair (in Leitrim) before turning around and trying every road until, in what looked like a residential neighborhood, we spotted a sign for Hazelwood – not the trail, however. We drove into the very dark wooded peninsula. The shore was lined with rowboats and we came upon some men cutting trees blocking the road. They explained that there was almost nothing left of the sculpture trail as there had been vandalism. Besides we could go no further due to the tree cutting. What we do in search of Art!<br />
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Sligo was also home to <b>Model Arts and the Niland Collection of Twentieth Century Irish Art</b>, on the other side of the Garavogue River. Housed in a 140-year-old schoolhouse, this outstanding collection included work by Jack B. Yeats, Paul Henry, and Evie Hone among many others. Founded by librarian Nora Niland in 1960 by borrowing three Yeats paintings for display, this has become one of the leading centers for contemporary art in the country.<br />
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<i>Killarney Harbor</i> by Paul Henry</div>
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It was time to head for ATHLONE for my engagement. We stayed at the Inny Bay B&B, out near the eastern edge of Lough Ree. When we got a chance, we went north past Tang to the <b>studios of Michael and Patrick Casey </b>in Newtowncashel near Longford. Father and son carve in bog oak and bog yew, and their work can be found all over Ireland. They have done altar furnishings for churches and sculptures for fountains and other outdoor installations.<br />
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There was entertainment scheduled at a pub called <b>"Murray's"</b> that was very near our lodging. The building sat all by itself on the side of a little used road in the middle of almost nowhere. So we went over around 9:00 pm and got to know the regulars.<br />
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I am sorry, but there is no way I could even come close to doing these people justice, and their names were soon forgotten. The entertainment was Tony, who looked a little like Gene Kelly, and he had a cold. But all by himself, he carried in his gear and set up PA, keyboard, guitars, mics, then played and played.<br />
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The popular one was Marie as the only house rule was that you must dance if asked. And she, like all the women, young and old, were asked constantly, and the little room, lined with chairs, was filled with twirling girls, and the old guys just standing there. Tony took only one eye-blink-long break all night. Lizzie, the proprietress, poured the Guinness – several at a time (because “you can’t hurry the Guinness.”) The change went into small plastic cups and bills in a basket on the ancient shelf. She kept a small ice bucket behind the bar and doles out the cubes one at a time because when it was empty she had to go out through the lounge to a back room for more ice. Along the way she rearranged chairs and collected empty glasses. Slow but steady, with a ready grin for the regular customers. The place was usually called "Lizzie's" because this stooped, hunchbacked lady had been proprietress of the place most of her life and it was run by her mother before her, as an old photo on the wall attested. And most of these folks have been coming there for almost as long.<br />
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There were some charmers. One man I called The Leprechaun, gave an exhibition of Irish dancing while Tony played (aided by a large glass of amber liquid) and made wisecracks. Alone on the dance floor, The Leprechaun struck a pose, a stance, and then slowly revolved while occasionally, with great flair, placed his hands on his hips for a measure or two. Tony kept promising some lightning moves and tried playing the music faster, but they never happened and then it was over. The Leprechaun’s brother, a gentleman who served in the US Army, asked Marie to dance with the can’t-miss line, “It’s now or never.” When she commented to him on how crowded the dance floor had become, he replied: “You wouldn’t want to have eggs in your pockets.”<br />
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One young blond girl was “light on her feet,” it was observed, and there was a cute old couple that got up occasionally and danced. The old gent even sang a song. There were a few other outsiders, but they were all Irish. A girl in a pale yellow dress with a blond streak in her bangs and a big smile, spun and spun all night. Her girlfriend often danced with one old guy who wore a wide tie and an oversized keychain. When not spinning, she’d just put her hand on his hump. There was even a boy with Down Syndrome out there dancing. We celebrated his 16th birthday at midnight with a rousing chorus.<br />
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The next day we went to DUBLIN and our first stop was the <b>Irish Museum of Modern Art</b>, west of St. James Gate. The building was originally the old Royal Hospital Kilmainham, the finest 17th-century building in Ireland. The Royal Hospital was founded in 1684 by James Butler, Duke of Ormonde and Viceroy to Charles II, as a home for retired soldiers and continued in that use for almost 250 years. IMMA became resident in May 1991 and since its opening the Museum has rapidly established itself as a significant and dynamic presence in the Irish and international arts arena. The permanent collection comprised of over 1,650 works. Temporary shows we saw included exhibitions by Anne Madden and Lucian Freud.<br />
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<i>Girl with White Dog</i> by Lucien Freud</div>
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Next up was the <b>Hugh Lane Gallery</b> on Parnell Street. Admission was free, and the collection featured some interesting European and Irish Impressionists, like Bonnard and Roderic O’Conor. Paintings and sculpture by Degas and John Lavery (Belfast-born artist), Manet (<i>Concert at the Tuilleries</i>), Monet (<i>Waterloo Bridge</i>), Renoir, Berthe Morisot, and Vuillard. They were also proud of their Francis Bacon studio and have a room for Irish-American abstract artist, Sean Scully. Founded in 1908, it was once known as the “Municipal Gallery of Modern Art” it has been renamed “Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane.”<br />
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Sean Scully</div>
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Studio of Francis Bacon</div>
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We walked down O’Connell Street, through hordes of tourists, across the Liffy, through Trinity College (home of the <i>Book of Kells</i> which we have previously seen) and out to the<b> National Gallery of Ireland</b> in Merrion Square, also free. In addition to representative works by Irish painters including Jack Butler Yeats and John Butler Yeats, the collection included works by Americans J. S. Sargent, Gilbert Stuart, Benjamin West, and Whistler; plus Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Rubens, Corot, Degas, Delacroix, Millet, Monet, Sisley, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Fra Angelico, Bellini, Michelangelo, Tintoretto, Titian, El Greco, and more.<br />
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The featured exhibition was entitled <i>Treasures from the North</i> and had lots of Irish paintings from the Ulster Museum, including Roderic O’Conor who painted <i>Fields of Corn, Pont-Aven</i> in 1892 (above).<br />
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The next day (7/7/07) we went to the <b>Bellewstowne Races</b> outside Dublin (picked no winners), then headed south, as we were expected in Killarney. On the way we passed through CLONMEL, which appeared to be in the midst of a festival of some kind.<br />
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One day, after we got settled into our almost mountaintop cottage on Mangerton, we were able to get away and stopped in CORK to see what we could find. What we found was a city in construction as it seemed that every roadway was torn up. We did find the <b>Crawford Art Gallery</b>, however. Their collections range from 17th century to contemporary, as the collection was formed in 1819 and now contains more than 2,500 pieces. In 1924 the museum acquired twenty-four drawings by Harry Clarke, a leading craftsman of the Arts & Crafts Movement in Ireland and book illustrator. This included the preparatory sketches (below) for a window illustrating John Keats' poem, <i>The Eve of St. Agnes</i>, now in the Hugh Lane Gallery.<br />
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On the way back to KILLARNEY, we noticed a few sculptures along the N22. They were mostly stone, but varied and were found on both sides of the road from the Kerry line to town. The most distinctive piece was of a horse rearing up with a helmet on his head that made him look like a unicorn. We were able to get the name of the artist from the tourist information. <i>The Sculpture Road to Killarney</i>, is a work by <b>Tighe O’Donoghue Ross </b>and his son. While it was fun looking for the Art often hidden by tall weeds, there was no place to park therefore no good opportunity to stop and see or photograph the work.<br />
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<i>Capal Mor - The Unicorn</i></div>
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<a name='more'></a>(2007) We arrived on Bastille Day, a seemingly auspicious time to begin our Art adventures in Paris. Too late for the parade, we put all our celebratory eggs in one basket – watching the fireworks from <b>Sacre Coeur</b> on Montmartre. We weren’t the only one’s with that idea, so it was a great show people watching on the steep lawn in front of the church. It was a gorgeous view of Paris, as we waited for dark. Fireworks were periodically visible from throughout the city. The big show, I believed, was coming from the Champ de Mars, just on the other side of the Seine. Seems the Champ de Mars was a bit over to the right – directly behind a small, but effectively sight-killing, stand of trees. We could see nothing more than the glow. Oh well. Everyone on the hill had been drinking wine, so that glow was shared by all.<br />
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Before continuing, I should say that this was not our first visit to Paris and therefore we have been to the Louvre on a couple of occasions and did not go there on this trip. There was so much more Art to see.<br />
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The next day was Sunday, so we got up a little late and headed for the Avenue Haussmann with the hope of having lunch under Printemp’s famed stained glass dome. When we got there, the entire area, it turned out, was devoid of people and all the stores were closed. Not only was it Bastille Day weekend, it was summertime, when all the real Parisians leave town.<br />
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We continued down Haussmann admiring the Opera Garnier and other sights until we came to the <b>Musée Jacquemart-André</b>. After paying the admission, we went straight to the café where we had only a short wait for a table. The café was in a large room that was part of the original mansion. We were seated on the piazza.<br />
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Revived, we began exploring this museum, the result of Edouard André and his wife Nélie Jacquemart’s collecting. They were a childless couple who spent their lives and fortunes designing, building and then decorating this sumptuous mansion.<br />
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On display were Rembrandt, Botticelli, Uccello, Tiepolo, Chardin Mantegna, Bellini, and Boucher. The Winter Garden, with its marble staircase, was particularly appealing. Walls to adjoining rooms could be removed for grander entertaining.<br />
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From there we cut over to the Champs Elysee, where we found all the people. At least tourists out for a stroll. Admiring buildings while getting in position to get a good picture of the Arc de Triomphe with the flags still up from Bastille Day. There was a nice Art Nouveau arcade of shops and the Toyota showroom highlighting their artistic side.<br />
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From there we cut across to the Trocadero Palace where we found lots more Parisians. Some stripped down to their underwear to frolic in the fountains.<br />
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The rest of the day was spent looking at Paris’s Art on the streets. <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/centerforartlovers/ParisStreetArt#slideshow/5485200752153787650">Click here to see pics</a>.<br />
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Since most museums were closed on Mondays, we took advantage and looked at the Art one might find at the largest flea markets in Paris at Clignancourt and the Rue des Rosiers: Marché Vernaison, Marché Antica, Marché Cambo, Marché Biron, Marché Dauphine. They seem to all run together and we were not disappointed. Everything from a six-foot Eiffel tower made from matchsticks to a little carved wooden bear we took home.<br />
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Then back downtown <b></b>for some Art.<br />
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<b>Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou</b> was open and there were no lines. The brainchild of President Georges Pompidou, the controversial building designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, is an original cultural institution in the heart of Paris completely focused on modern and contemporary creation. The Centre opened in 1977.<br />
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Visiting here is an adventure in itself. A temporary exhibit by Anne Messenger was on the ground floor – soft-sculpture, body parts, old colored pencils stuck through cloth gloves, not worthy of further description. Same can be said for the second special exhibit. When we figured out the way to the main exhibits upstairs I was told, with a sneer, that I must return to the first floor to check my backpack. From the ground floor you go up an escalator to the ticket takers then sort of outside the building to ascend on a series of escalators in clear tubes to the top level for an exhibit. Then back down the escalators to the fourth level where you must walk up to the fifth level to see the <b>Musée National d'Art Moderne</b> which features Art from 1905-1960; the Impressionists, Matisse, Picasso, Francis Picabi, a room of Giaccometti, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, one bad Motherwell, lots of Kandinsky, Calder (kinetic art). This is the second largest collection of modern art after MOMA NYC. <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/centerforartlovers/Pompideau#slideshow/5485224524644781538">Here's a few photos I snapped</a>.<br />
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The Orsay Metro stop was being renovated, so we had a long walk before arriving at the <b>Musée d'Orsay</b>. There we were greeted with a long serpentine line of people waiting to get tickets. We just joined the fray. The special exhibit was entitled <i>From Cezanne to Picasso: Masterpieces from the Ambroise Vollard Gallery</i>.<br />
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Ambroise Vollard was the foremost Parisian art dealer of the early twentieth century and the man who gave Cezanne, Picasso, and Maillol their first one-man shows. He was the center of the Paris art world from the 1890's until his death in 1939. Vollard understood that artists, in order to survive, need exposure and emotional support as much as they need money. Maillol once said, "It is thanks to Vollard that I am able to live." At a time when most dealers and critics ignored or trashed the modernists, Vollard boldly and perceptively bought their work. His gallery on the rue Lafitte became the meeting place for the avant-garde. A shrewd businessman, Vollard bought low and sold high to courageous collectors, such as Gertrude and Leo Stein, and Alfred Barnes. With this fortune Vollard launched a second career as a publisher of prints and fine illustrated books. He commissioned graphics from Maurice Denis, Odilon Redon, Degas, Rouault, Bonnard, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Picasso. He also wrote biographies of his favorite artists, brought out bronze casts of sculptures by Maillol, Bonnard, Picasso, and Renoir, and found time somehow to sit for portraits. A large, gruff, course, individual - he nevertheless inspired his artist friends: Picasso did a cubist study of him, Bonnard painted him with his cat, and Renoir portrayed him as a toreador. "The most beautiful woman who ever lived," Picasso said,"never had her portrait painted, drawn, or engraved more often than Vollard."<br />
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The exhibition featured works by Bonnard, Cézanne, Degas, Derain, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Maillol, Matisse, Picasso, Redon, Renoir, Rouault, Rousseau, Vlaminck, Vuillard, and others. Highlights included five paintings from Vollard's landmark 1895 Cézanne exhibition; a never-before-reassembled triptych from his 1896–97 Van Gogh retrospective; the masterpiece <i>Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?</i> from Vollard’s 1898 Gauguin exhibition; paintings from Picasso's first French exhibition (1901) and Matisse's first solo exhibition (1904); and three pictures from Derain's London series, painted in 1906–07 at Vollard's suggestion. The exhibition also includes numerous portraits of Vollard by leading artists, among them Cézanne, Bonnard, Renoir, and Picasso. Whether it was commissioned, exhibited, or owned by him, each of these works at one time passed through Vollard's hands.<br />
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The Art of another painter in the museum caught our eye. Please allow me to insert a short bio here:<br />
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Marie Laurencin was born on October 31, 1883 in Paris, the illegitimate daughter of Pauline Laurencin and Alfred Toulet, though she would not learn her father’s identity officially until she was twenty-two, eight years after his death. Having been last in all of her subjects at the Lycée Lamartine, Laurencin studied porcelain painting at the Sèvres factory. She later entered the Académie Humbert, where she met Georges Braque and Georges Lepape. In 1907 she exhibited at Clovis Sagot’s gallery in Montmartre. There, Pablo Picasso introduced her to Guillaume Apollinaire, with whom she would be romantically involved until 1913. Throughout the course of their relationship, both would serve as a source of artistic inspiration for each other. Through Picasso and Apollinaire, Laurencin frequented the Bateau Lavoir, where she made the acquaintances of Fernande Olivier, Max Jacob, André Salmon, Maurice Raynal, Maurice Cremnitz, Gertrude Stein, and André Derain, among others. Her 1908 Group of Artists was purchased by Gertrude Stein; Laurencin’s first sale. The painting is a group portrait of Laurencin, Apollinaire, Picasso and his mistress, Fernande Olivier. Apollinaire encouraged Laurencin to publish two of her poems, <i>Hier</i> and <i>Présent</i>, which she did under the pseudonym Louise Lalanne in the poetry review Les Marges. She and Apollinaire posed for Henri Rousseau’s painting <i>La Muse Inspirant le Poète</i>. There were more exhibitions; <i>Portrait of Mme Fernande X</i>, and <i>Young Girls with the Cubists</i>, in Gallery 41 in the Salon des Indépendants. Laurencin also created the illustrations for the book <i>Un Petit Brévaire d’Amour</i>. The first such artistic venture, she later went on to illustrate over eighty books. Upon the outbreak of World War I, she and new husband Baron Otto Von Wätjen fled to Spain. During that time, Laurencin associated with the artists Sonia and Robert Delaunay and Francis Picabia. She contributed some poems to Picabia’s art review, 391 in 1917. Back in Paris and divorced, she designed the set and costumes for <i>Les Biches</i> for <i>Les Ballets Russes</i>, which premiered in Monte Carlo and was later shown at the Théâtre Champs-Elysées in Paris to much acclaim. At this time, Laurencin was much in demand as a costume and set designer, as well as a society portraitist. Her clients included Coco Chanel.<br />
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Marie died in her Paris apartment on June 8, 1956 and was buried in the cemetery Père-Lachaise, according to her wishes, dressed in white with a rose in one hand and Apollinaire’s love letters by her heart. <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/centerforartlovers/Laurencin#slideshow/5485228617987556290">Click here for a few of her paintings</a>.<br />
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We ate lunch on the terrace outside the museum café, overlooking the Seine, before continuing with the orgy of Art. The museum is broken down into: 1) Impressionist and Post-Impressionist (Cézanne, Gaugin, Matisse, Pissarro, Redon, Seurat, Signac, Sisley, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Whistler, Pont Aven, Nabis ); 2) Academics, Naturalism, Symbolism, Art Nouveau (Denis, Gaudi, Klimt, Maillol, Munch, Rodin, Vuillard); and 3) Pre-Impressionism (Degas, Delacroix, Ingres, Renoir, Manet, Monet).<br />
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Across the Seine was the <b>Musée de l'Orangerie des Tuileries</b>. Inside, two elliptical rooms housed the Monet murals entitled <i>Les Nymphéas</i>. Monet first made the gift of the water lily murals, then chose the building to house them in 1927.<br />
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The current incarnation opened in 2006 after a six-year renovation. Downstairs was Art from the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume Collection, featuring Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso, Rousseau, Matisse, Derain, Modigliani, Soutine, Utrillo and Laurencin. Also on display were sections of the ancient fortress walls found during the renovation.<br />
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On the way to Gare de Lyon, we discovered <b>Le Viaduc des Arts</b>. Rather than tearing down the old (1859) brick-and-stone viaduct that carried suburban trains until the 1970s, the city converted the one-mile from the Opéra Bastille to the Jardin de Reuilly into a pedestrian promenade. Next the vaulted spaces beneath the rail line were converted into craftsmen's workshops and galleries - from cabinet and musical-instrument makers, to fashion designers, textile restorers, and other businesses related to the arts.<br />
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Across the Seine was the<b> Jardin des Plantes</b> where we found this recycled dragon sculpture and a carousel of prehistoric animals. Continuing along the river, we found the <b>Musée de la Sculpture en Plein Air</b>, in the Tino Rossi Jardin. An open-air sculpture museum diagonally across from Île St. Louis, it had sculptures from the second half of the 20th century by Brancusi, Gilioli, César and others. <br />
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The cemetery<i> Père Lachaise</i> was the final resting place of many famous French artists, authors, musicians plus other celebs such as Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison. After purchasing a map and doing some planning, we visited the graves of Rossini, Pissarro, Morrison, Chopin, Seurat, Bizet, Balzac, Delacroix, Ingres, Corot, La Fontaine, Moliere, Modigliani, Edith Piaf, Oscar Wilde, and Marie Laurencin, before closing time. <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/centerforartlovers/PereLechase#slideshow/5485231688429158946">Click here for other tombs.</a><br />
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Some of the statuary and stonework is outstanding.<br />
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We also made it down to the cemetery at <b>Montparnasse</b>, but it was closed. Among the buried there were many artists, musicians, and writers, such as: Bartholde, Samuel Beckett, Brancusi, Cesar, Henri Latour, Jean Antoine Houdon, Man Ray, Guy de Maupassant, Jean Pierre Rampall, Saint-Saens, Sartre and Soutine.<br />
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The <b>Musée d’Art Moderne of the city of Paris</b> was housed in the former Palais de Tokyo, overlooking the Seine. Admission is charged for the special exhibits but the permanent collection is free. We began with two parts of the Henri Matisse triptych <i>La Danse</i> (1931-33) and ten other paintings from the collection of Henry Thomas. Through other donations there were paintings by: Rouault, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Raoul Dufy, Marcel Gromaire and many others. This was previously the location for the national museum of modern art before it moved to the Pompidou Center.<br />
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Continuing west, on the way to the <b>Musée Marmottan</b> , we walked through le Jardin de Ranelagh where we found a bronze sculpture of fable writer La Fontaine with a fox and crow looking right at home in this fashionable 16th arrondissement neighborhood; almost to the Bois de Boulogne.<br />
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While the mansion and its Napoleonic artwork were the original gift of Marmottan, the featured collections were from later bequests. First, in 1957, there was the collection of the physician to Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley and Renoir and one of the first lovers of impressionist painting. Then in 1966 Michel Monet, the painter's second son, left the collection of his father’s paintings, for which an underground exhibition hall was built to house what is the largest repository of Monet. The collection of Denis and Annie Rouart, given in 1996, had many Impressionist paintings, mostly Berthe Morisot which were displayed upstairs as part of the largest collection of Morisot in the world. I found it interesting that the building was originally a hunting lodge which fit the location even now near the edge of the Bois. It may have been in the woods when Marmottan bought it in 1882.<br />
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<i>After the Ball</i> by Berthe Morisot</div>
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<i>Le Soleil Levant </i>by Monet, 1872</div>
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The majority of our non-Art time was spent seeking carousels – Les Manèges – in every corner of the city. Even though <b>Musée des Arts Forains</b>, which has one of the world's finest collections of carousels, was closed for the summer, we were able to visit seventeen carousels and get a ride on most. Some were just too old to support an adult, or too small. <a href="http://youtu.be/75cjzg1EIgg">Click here to see a video of our discoveries.</a><br />
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(2006) Since being Extreme Art Tourists was something we became unintentionally, some of our trips were not primarily about Art. While we did partake of Art in both traditional and unusual settings, this was a trip about Festivals, along with as much Art as we could find.<br />
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On our first morning in Korea, we caught the eight o’clock bus for a three and one-half hour trip south to JINJU and the <b>Floating Lantern (Yudeung) Festival</b>. This is the largest of its kind in Korea and has its origins from the Japanese occupation of Joseon in the late 16th century. According to records, General Kim Si-Min of Jinju Castle, leading only 3,800 rebels, destroyed an army of 20,000 Japanese troops who attacked the castle in October of 1592. During the Japanese attack, the general raised a lantern in the sky and floated lanterns and torches on the river to send signals to loyal troops and other supporting forces outside the castle.<br />
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Both sides of the river were awash in tents and decorations, such as a very long and tall wall of lanterns; each with a yellow ribbon hanging below with people's names and a prayer for peace. For 10,000 won we added our names to the display, where they would hang for twelve days.<br />
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The river itself was filled with giant silk-covered characters floating on rafts. Dragons, genies, animals, regular people, and many heros from Jinju’s past, all covered in brightly colored silk. Giant mechanical peacocks lifted their tails and a dragon belched fire and smoke. There was a row of bigger than life symbols of the Oriental Zodiac, and there were places where schoolchildren or anyone else could hang a lantern for competition.<br />
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While not a castle guy, I did enjoy the open-sided, elevated meditation shelter. Everyone removed their shoes before climbing the stairs to enjoy the shade, the river breezes and the view from above the river. Continuing along the river, we found a shrine to the maiden who, according to legend, grabbed hold of the Japanese general and dragged him into the river where his heavy armor drowned them both. Eventually we reached the museum, which contained artifacts pertaining to the Korean victory in 1592.<br />
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Paid another 1,000 to re-cross the floating bridge, and had supper. There were dozens of food tents – sit-down places with a roll of paper towels for napkins. And there were lots of dressed up, made-up women directing the activities: Some were cooking while pointing out an empty table to a passerby, others filled bottles with water, or brought out the many side dishes. Other women brought out the rest. Appetizer of seaweed and bibimbap (a bowl of rice topped with raw & cooked vegetables served with chili paste). Followed by boiling hot, instantly served soup, and on and on. <a href="http://youtu.be/8tyJ3BvtLbo">Click here for video of night scenes</a>.<br />
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After dark the floating characters, as well as those on land were all lit up. It was very colorful. Flares shot into the air, symbolizing the signal torches used by the Korean general. Torches lined the opposite bank and the castle walls. Then rockets fired from the Castle were answered by others from our side of the river. The fireworks then began in earnest. It was an awesome (meant in the traditional way) display. The sky was filled with light as coordinated rockets were fired from the other shore, while others went off from barges in the river. Gorgeous effects and spectacular colors and sounds. Amazingly, none of the silk-covered displays were damaged by the falling ashes. When it was over, we walked back to the bus terminal for our midnight bus back to SEOUL. <a href="http://youtu.be/MQn1cbJPvmk">Click here for video of fireworks</a> or <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/104736255580266670479/KoreaJinjuFloatingLanternFestival#slideshow/5501858397022245186">click here to see more photos</a>.<br />
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The next morning we were at <b>Namdaemun</b> (West Gate) Market to explore the art of shopping. This is supposed to be the cheapest market, the distribution center for many other markets and retailers. It is a warren of shops or stalls; multi-floor; seeming endless hallways. We didn’t stay long, although M managed to buy slippers and mix it up with the ajumma while buying a blouse off a cart. Lunch was a seafood pancake (called an omelet) & soju (Korean vodka made usually with rice or sweet potato, drunk neat).<br />
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We aimed for <b>Cheonggyecheon</b>. Also known as The Stream, this is a new project where the almost dead creekbed was revitalized with bridges, stepping stones, lights, music, sculptures, and places to sit. The idea was to attract visitors to the retail districts above. It was filled with people of every age, sitting about, playing, laughing, taking pictures of each other, crossing and recrossing the stream. There were plenty of accesses to street level, but we walked to the end, at Gwanghwamun, where there is a waterfall and a giant shell above it.<br />
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Another early start for our adventure to ANDONG and the<b> International Maskdance Festival</b>. <br />
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In olden times, direct criticism of the yangban (rulers) was strictly forbidden, so the lower classes satirized them while wearing masks. Different regions developed their own masked dances. Among the mask dances still performed are <i>Hahoe Mask Dance</i>, <i>Eunyul Mask Dance</i>, <i>Bukcheong Sajanoreum</i>, <i>Bongsan Mask Dance</i>, <i>Dongnae Yaryu</i>, <i>Suyeong Yaryu</i>, <i>Gasan Ogwangdae</i>, <i>Gangnyeong Mask Dance</i>, <i>Songpa Sandaenori</i>, <i>Yangju Byeolsandaenori</i>, <i>Tongyeong Ogwangdae</i>, <i>Goseong Ogwangdae</i>, and the <i>Gangneung Mask Drama</i>. <br />
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The entrance to the festival was lined with a gauntlet of vendors. The grounds were very large with an indoor arena at one end and the amphitheatre at the other. In between was a vast paved area filled with tents, and a very large open space in the middle. The tents were for “experience” activities where kids, mostly, made masks or wall-hangings with a mask theme. Or had a traditional Korean wedding, participated in a tea ceremony, or a million other things. Other tents were for the myriad products produced in the region/country: ginseng, green tea, soju, dried fish, crafts, etc.<br />
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The theme of this year's festival, the tenth, was <i>Stylishness and Excitement of Yangban</i>. Again, Yangban refers to Korea's ruling elite, especially during the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). Press below for video.<br />
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With an all-day ticket, we were able to come and go to the amphitheatre where various companies from countries like Poland, Mexico, Malaysia, Costa Rica, China, Slovakia, Latvia, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, and Japan performed. Foam pads were provided for the audience as there were no chairs. We saw <i>Sooyeong</i> (don’t know what that means) do some traditional routines before the performance of an interesting drama about a tree. It began as women dressed as crows danced around and talked excitedly. It may have been because they knew man wanted to cut down the tree to build a highway. Two characters with hardhats and ties came to do a survey and dance around. The crows foiled their attempts to harm the tree, regardless of the men’s devises. At one point the men hid themselves with a shroud of trash and litter and jumped around like the lion dance. <u> Click on the picture below to see the video.</u><br />
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Once, while we were in the open center area, there were suddenly processions of traditional musicians and men in traditional working costumes. Soon crowds of spectators joined the participants. The band was called Nongak (means “farmer’s dance") and is comprised of<i> kwaengwari, jing, janggu</i>, and <i>buk</i> (flat cymbal, gong, hourglass shaped drum, and barrel drum), and sometimes <i>tepyeongso </i>(a double reed wind instrument).<br />
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<i>Chajeon Nori</i> was a commemoration of Wang Geon’s victory over Gyeon Hwon at the Battle of Gochang in 935. It resembled a jousting match, of sorts, with the two opposing commanders standing atop large log frames that are maneuvered by their teams. These frames were known as <i>dongchae</i>, and were composed of two thirty-foot long logs tied together with straw rope. Some members of the team carry the <i>dongchae</i>, while the others fight (at least symbolically) with the opposing team to help their side advance. A team wins by forcing the other team’s <i>dongchae</i> to the ground. After their victory, the members of the winning team traditionally toss their straw sandals into the sky. <a href="http://youtu.be/ThWHxmfZVgQ">Click here to see video.</a><br />
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We enjoyed the many booths and displays, including an exhibition of finely made masks and another show of amateur versions. There were bonsai displays and locally made 40-proof soju (for which Andong is famous; the usual is 20). There were also trained chrysanthemums, tables of dried fish, jars of ginseng, and piles of fried silkworm larvae snacks called Beondaegi. <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/104736255580266670479/KoreaAndongMaskdanceFest#slideshow/5501869621318894882">Click here for more scenes from the Maskdance Festival</a>.<br />
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As opposed to Beondaegi, there are some things we cannot resist when we travel – such as <i>dolmens</i> (taepyeongso in Korean). Like Ireland, Scotland and most of Europe, Korea has perhaps thousands of these stone structures built between early 30th century bc through 108 bc. We went to GANGWHA in the northwest, where we found a few outstanding examples right up close to the border with the North. Even towns in the remote areas are nicely adorned with flowering trees and plants.<br />
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Our visit coincided with the holiday of <i>Chuseok</i>, which has been likened to the American Thanksgiving although much more important. The full harvest moon festival occurs on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. The days before and after are also holidays, making it easy for people to visit their hometowns.<br />
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Back in SEOUL, we started at <b>Deoksugung</b> (gung means “palace”) where there was supposed to be a changing of the palace guard at 10:30, but not on Chuseok, so we had a nice walk around the grounds before going into the <b>Museum of Modern Arts</b>.<br />
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Lots more people filled the palace grounds, after we went in. Some playing traditional games and little ones, especially the girls, were decked out in traditional dress. Then we walked over to the <b>Seoul Art Museum</b>, which had a biennial print exhibition and another show by a woman named Chun Kyung-Ja, which was particularly interesting. She had illustrations of America and the rest of the World. <br />
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Nearby we found a stage set up at the end of The Stream, in front of the giant shell at <b>Gwanghwamun</b>. There were fan dancers and other entertainers performing for the holiday crowd. We tried to find another art museum to no avail. <b>Ilmin Museum of Art</b> was closed for the holiday.<br />
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At City Hall Plaza we found the Harvest Korean Traditional Music Festival. Lots of hands-on activities for kids, including tie dying, drum lessons, painting, calligraphy, etc.<br />
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We claimed spaces on the foam sheets that were spread in front of the stage for people to sit upon. At six the traditional wedding procession circled the crowd, with husband on horseback and bride in a sedan accompanied by drums and gongs and other costumed characters. The stage show began with the fan dancers we saw earlier, but now they were in full costume and very elegant. This was followed by the National Orchestra playing traditional instruments but jazzed up. There were celebrities, singers, dancers, tightrope walkers, and a traditional flute player, all with stage effects such as flames, mist, and bubbles for the flute player. Click below to see video of fan dancers doing a last run-through before the show.<br />
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The highlight for me was a quartet playing the traditional instruments (gong, little gong, two-sided drum hour-glass shaped drum, lower pitched two-sided drum) with surreal intensity. They were tight, smooth, fast, amazing. Click below to see video.<br />
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The next day we visited <b>Tapgol Park</b>, home to the #2 national treasure – a tall, glass-encased stone pagoda. In 1917 the Declaration of Independence from Japan was read in Tapgol Park and an insurrection began which spread countrywide.<br />
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We then headed to lunch in <b>Insadong</b>.<b> </b>Insadong is a district of shops and carts with wares for both tourists and locals. Many of the businesses were just getting set up at noon that day, but we found lots of art supply stores, art galleries, antique stores, and gift shops selling masks or carved Korean tiki heads.<br />
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While the <b>Seoul Drum Festival</b> had been going on in various parts of the city, we went to the big Saturday night show at Gyeonghuigung.<br />
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The opening began with an elaborate traditional drumming exhibition, which I shot while lying on the ground in the row of seats with my head and camera in the main aisle. <a href="http://youtu.be/YPe5UMFDhr8">Click here for video</a>.<br />
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Afterwards, a military band lined the same aisle. And while they played a Karl King march, the evening’s entertainment filed in and proceeded to the stage. I could try to describe each act, which included Italian flag throwers, but the following video captures much of it. <a href="http://blip.tv/file/3912209">Click here for video of performances</a>.<br />
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<b>Seoul Land</b> is Korea’s first theme park and home to the <b>National Museum of Contemporary Art</b>. We took the Elephant Train up to the zoo and from there it was still a good walk up the hill to the museum.<br />
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While billed as a “sculpture garden” there was little evidence of a garden, but there was an exhibit of outdoor Art. The museum itself is very large and airy. The art was contemporary; some interesting, some gimmicky. Most by Korean artists, except for an Andy Warhol and a Chuck Close. There was also a retrospective on the 20th anniversary of the death of prominent artist, Oh Yoon, who died at 40.<br />
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After our visit to MOCA, we hoped to see the horses run at the nearby racetrack. While it turned out there was no live racing, we found a little equine art.<br />
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Back in town, we were successful in our search for the giant bamboo dragon built in celebratory anticipation of the US Army vacating the nearby base.<br />
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It was still Chuseok, so we decided to head for the mountains. And the seashore. To GANGWON-DO province in the northeast corner, home of <b>Seoraksan National Park</b>. We got a room in Sokcho that overlooked the rocky coast. As we looked out we could not help but notice the severity of the waves. Turns out that North Korea allegedly detonated an atomic bomb near their coast that morning, just north of us. Some of the waves crashed over the cement seawalls that had been erected in various places along the coast. Occasionally barbed wire was in evidence, another reminder of the proximity to the North<br />
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The next thing we noticed about Sokcho was the many signs in Russian. But then we saw the big ferry that made regular trips to Russia.<br />
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It was getting late by the time the bus got us to Seoraksan National Park. We walked past the bear sculpture/park mascot, past the souvenir shops, past the giant Buddha, up the stony pathway, over stone bridges, traced the stone riverbed, through an isolated restaurant that is stocked by vendors who must carry supplies on their backs, to a temple where people can stay, or buy a roof tile with their name on it, or a lotus lantern hung with a prayer, or just a candle. No incense available.<br />
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There are small stacks of rocks piled up everywhere along the path or around the temple, or practically anywhere. The path went through lovely pine woods as we made our way back down to the entrance before the park closed.<br />
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As our room faced East, sunlight came to us early, though diffused by the morning fog. Fishing boats trawled back and forth along the coast at different distances. Then the red ball of sun blazed through.<br />
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We caught the 10:45 bus for WONJU, which turned out to be a really long ride through the mountains. Though lovely and sometimes exciting, we didn‘t arrive until late in the afternoon. But not too late to catch the street parade for the <b>Wonju Tattoo - International Military Band Festival</b>.<br />
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Many of the bands were playing when they hit the street and the whole procession passed by in less than half an hour. The bands were from around the world and each had its own style. We would see them again later, so we didn’t mind the briefness. <a href="http://youtu.be/6-Ma8k7SrwY">Click here for video</a>.<br />
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As soon as a hotel room was found, we had to go right back out for the opening performances at the festival stadium. Sure enough <i>Festive Overture</i> (Shostakovich) was being played as we approached, so we hurried to the main gate and found the stadium was sold out. Fortunately, a man in military uniform escorted us in and helped to find some space along a rail with the photographers.<br />
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After a Korean drum exhibition, it was karaoke time with a girl singing <i>The Theme from Fame</i>, followed by an ABBA tune and a couple of others. Weird, but the audience liked it. A laser show preceded all the bands filing onto stadium floor while herald trumpets blared from the upper concourse and the ROK (Republic of Korea) band played from the stands. As before, rather than try to describe the scene, click below for video.<br />
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The next day we heard the 8th US Army band play in the concert hall, and then watched the Russian band (<i>Orchestra of the Pacific Fleet HQ</i>) transform into a small orchestra. The women who played on drums in the marching unit, now played on violins. The long-legged blonde who stood at the head of the band, when marching, wearing a pretty blue and white outfit, with a veil, was now a violin soloist wearing a long skirt with a slit.<br />
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The highlight of the whole festival was the performance by the Spanish band, <i>The</i> <i>Symphonic Band of the Artistic Association of Denia</i>. Previously a motley-looking group of marchers, they now became a finely tuned ensemble, still with ties askew. Each song better than the last, with the best being the <i>Preludio y Danza del Alba</i> for brass quintet and band. A beautiful song whose composer was recognized in the audience. A great performance.<br />
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Went to Gwanghwamun to find the <b>Ilman Museum of Art</b> in the Samsung Life Insurance building. A bit of a strange place. The exhibition seemed to be done by one artist, with lots of plastic baskets of various colors stacked into walls or other formations or just piled up. All exhibitions are contemporary, and the location in the business district makes the Art very accessible.<br />
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Looked again for the <b>Chosun Ilbo Museum</b> with no success, but found a big rally in City Hall Plaza. <br />
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We did the <b>Korean National Museum</b>, which had lots of pots, calligraphy, archeology, a few traditional paintings on rolls, and masses of school kids and families. All in an enormous new building. My favorite piece was a large 7th century “pensive Bodhisattva,” National Treasure #83.<br />
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At <b>Gyeongbokgung</b> (remember, gung means palace) we found what appeared to be some kind of re-enactment. There were lines of traditionally dressed men marching and dancing in front of a throne and great crowds to watch.<br />
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Afterwards, we just wandered from building to building; admiring the decoration - painted and carved – that covered almost every inch. Lots of dragons. Not unlike other cultures, the embellishment of places of religion and power represents much of the Art of a people.<br />
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Flew to JEJU ISLAND, just off the southern coast. This was the “nature as Art” portion of our journey. We were greeted by carved stone totems called <i>The Grandfathers.</i><br />
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The first natural wonder we saw was <b>Jusangjeollidae</b> at Jungmun Daepo Coast. These are hexagonally shaped rocks which are similar to formations found at Giants’ Causeway in Northern Ireland. Although you can’t walk or sit on them, they are quite spectacular crystal-like shapes of volcanic black basalt rock with wave after wave crashing upon them. <br />
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After getting ourselves settled in SEOGWIPO, on the southern coast of the island, our next stop was <b>Cheonjiyeon Falls</b>. It was a nice walk to get to them, but I wasn’t surprised that the cascades were not as impressive as they looked in the pictures. This may be because it was now late fall and a long way from the rainy season. Once again, it was mostly fun watching the people take pictures of each other. <br />
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Next were the <b>Jeongbang Falls </b>– the only waterfall in Asia that falls into the sea. It was a long, long climb down the stone stairs to the bottom of the falls. Very nice. Although not as huge as it sometimes gets, the sound was powerful and the proximity of the ocean and the rocks was great.<br />
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The walk back up, was not. But we survived, only to be shocked by the prices for the fish. It’s not unusual to see a fish tank in front of a restaurant, so when we pointed to something that looked like a red snapper, the man nodded and said “Porgie.” The menu said 100,000. Each? They were fairly small and I thought a bait fish. Not for us.<br />
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<b>Hallasan</b> is the volcano which made Jeju an island and although we aren’t the greatest mountain climbers, we thought we'd give it a try. There were lots of people on the trail, going at all speeds, coming down as well as going up. Marie took a picture for a couple standing by the creekside and the woman produced an orange and offered it in return. Lots of women on the trail, including nuns. The leaves were definitely changing there and it looked like autumn. A man came down singing “Annyeon haseyo” to everyone he met. After a while, we turned and made our descent. In the process, however, we met a couple from Ireland who had a car.<br />
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We ended up touring the northeastern part of the island together. The scenery was lovely, as we passed through fields of Eulalia undulating in the breeze and herds of ponies. We didn’t quite make it to Sunrise Peak, because we were running short of time and wanted to go to <b>Manjanggul Cave</b>, one of the finest lava flow tubes in the world. It was fantastic with an almost flat floor (not smooth) and basalt walls at times smooth; saw the stone turtle that looks like Jeju Island, and it seemed like we walked the 1 km open for visitors. Sorry no pictures.<br />
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Got dropped at JEJU CITY, on the northern shore of the island and port for the boat we would be taking in the morning. The Tamma Festival was being held nearby. Rows of tents with the usual foods, items for sale, and exhibit of bonsais. In the performance area there were rows of girls in traditional garb dancing to the usual instruments. <a href="http://youtu.be/aKk8S4mCP1g">Click here for video</a>.<br />
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There would be more entertainment at night, so after we walked through the local market which was covered with awnings, we checked out Samyang Beach, with its volcanic black sand beach. There was even a dolmen in town, though it took extraordinary measures to find it. We had to ask (and were driven to the spot).<br />
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Got back to the festival in time to hear an excellent youth orchestra play. There were also performances by women in traditional dress singing a very long song, and more traditional dancing.<br />
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We took the ferry to MOKPO, on the mainland. The route threaded through countless islands, but we could see few with the thick fog that morning. Once there, we took the long bus ride east to PUSAN/BUSAN, Korea’s second largest city.<br />
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We stayed at Haeundae Beach, a popular spot, as there was a lot going on. In addition to the <b>Biennial Art show</b>, it was time for the <b>Pusan International Film Festival </b>(PIFF) as well as the <b>Jagalchi Seafood Festival</b>.<br />
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The art was spread all around. One element of the Biennial was the <b>Outdoor Furniture Show</b> that was actually outdoor sculpture and installations along the beach. They varied from <i>Extended Staircase</i> which started with an existing wooden stairway from sand to boardwalk with added pieces of 2x4 that stuck out, to a stage with painted curtain, opening out to sea. <i>Life is on Air</i>, benches called <i>Ocean Dragon</i>, and an enclosed circular wall built in the sand, that you could walk through or climb to the top of the wall called <i>Sea of Busan.</i> There were about fifteen sculptures on the beachfront, a few across the street, one in the Marriott which had already been removed, and a few others on a nearby bridge. Several were in disrepair; the large baby in the sand (<i>Bok-nam-ii</i>) had its pacifier glued back into its mouth. Others weren’t where they were supposed to be, according to the map. I did noticed that there were numerous volunteers for the Biennial exhibit pointing out the way to lost souls.<br />
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We continued on to the <b>Busan Museum of Art</b> in Mt. Yongdu Park.<br />
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The exhibitions began with a huge installation involving Hite beer. Bottles were placed upside down and you walked upon the pathway created. Wooden beer cases were stacked from the lower level up two floors, I think. Sprinkled among the beer bottles were electronic displays with video or other features. Also used was conduit for electrical wiring, as a connecting prop. Display was too big to describe and photographs were not allowed. The remainder of the show which filled the upper two floors of the museum, was extensive with lots of monitors and viewing rooms. One particularly good piece was in a wooden box which simulated the back of a truck with a projection on the back wall; the video was entitled: <i>Tropical Mist,</i> <i>moisturized tissues</i>. It featured two women, one in the back of the truck sitting at a work table, picked up tissues from a pile on the floor with her toes, then proceeded to place a piece of gum from her mouth onto the tissue adhering it to a clothesline pulley system, then advanced the tissue to the front of the truck where the large, muscular black woman took the tissue and wiped the sweat from her face and body while driving the truck before putting it back on the clothes line and returned it to the first woman who pressed the tissue and added it to a stack of others. It took me a little while to realize that this was the <i>Tropical Mist</i> moisturizing process. The driver took a swig of lime drink so the next tissue she used was put in a box with the label “lime scented.” It was funny. There were other parts of the film involving who/what the driver saw while she drove around smiling and waving to the people. At one point a naked male jogger is introduced. Another piece of art featured live budgies.<br />
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Afterwards we took a subway up to the university district in search of a stream project called <b>Oncheonjang</b> that was likened to the Cheonggye in Seoul. This ran through a more residential neighborhood while Cheonggye went through business districts. That was more for sitting or walking, the Busan stream had room for runners, bikers and more. There was a clock that may have been Art, and we found a small section where the sidewalk was lined with smooth stones set in the concrete. <br />
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I thought I might mention that subway cars in Busan play bird calls before announcing stops; seagulls when approaching a beach stop. And many of the subway stations in both Seoul and Busan are filled with interesting, creative and attractive art, fountains, mosaics, tile work, and ceilings. <br />
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At the beach that night we discovered a concert in conjunction with PIFF. Plywood was laid out in front of the stage for the audience to sit upon. While the first couple of groups were okay, it was the featured band that drew the crowd. Sorry I can’t tell you their name, but they were lots of fun. <br />
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Three young men were in white suits and black ties – singer, bass, guitar, plus a drummer and keyboard that didn’t dress in the suits. The three were the stars. The girls screamed appropriately. The guitar wailed, the bass was good. All were good looking/cute/good hair/nice smiles. After the first song the singer invited the audience to stand up and so there was a rush on the stage. M said she felt young again. The band was terrific, pop-rock, I suppose. The lead was cool, not wild. The girls loved him. They did whatever he asked. When he said “jump” they did. Literally as one song’s lyrics included the command. Each fellow would smile at the crowd, all moved very well, throwing their hands dramatically into the air. Sparklers were passed out, lit, and waved. Then the singer jumped down into the crowd, much to the delight of the young ladies. And when they finished another song, they were done. Lights off. The crowd left.<br />
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Next day, we got tickets for Friday’s PIFF closing ceremony and screening of <i>Crazy Stones</i> first thing at the beach box office. Then we took the subway to the <b>Busan Museum</b>. Crowds of kids outside the door greeted us. There were battalions of mini-kids with backpacks as big as themselves. We used our McD’s 10% off coupon for tickets to the <i>French & American Impressionists from the Brooklyn Museum</i> exhibit. It was a decent show with a Latour that I liked. Monet did one of a custom house on a cliff above the ocean that attracted M, and there was a black & white Degas of Mary Cassatt at the Moulin Rouge. <br />
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There was a <b>United Nations Sculpture garden</b> adjacent to the museum which was entertaining, and then we went to the Jagalchi area near the docks. <br />
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The whole area is for shopping, which is what everyone did until a unit of traditional drummers and other costumed characters came by reminding us that it was time for the<b> Jagalchi Festival Parade</b>. So we went over to the parade route and grabbed a couple of good spots. The parade was short but fun. <a href="http://youtu.be/iM5yxiGXogI">Click here for the video.</a> or <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/104736255580266670479/KoreaJagalchiParade#slideshow/5501722661191768498">click here for pics.</a><br />
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The festival’s opening ceremonies took place at a stage set up in the middle of the fish market and the area was packed an hour and a half before they were scheduled to start.<br />
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At six o’clock a line of VIPs came on stage and were given white gloves to wear. They and many others were introduced. Speeches were made. Then a line of women with tubs came dancing up on stage and held the tubs out to the fellows so they could pick up a fish. Each held his fish high in the air, smiling. This was followed by confetti and fireworks shot from the top of a neighboring building. The rest of the evening was a variety of entertainments complete with mist, flames, fireworks & smoke. <a href="http://youtu.be/rTycqd-647o">Click here for video.</a><br />
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Our destination the following day was <b>Beomeosa Temple</b>, north of the city. After a subway ride, we actually took a cab the rest of the way up Mt. Geumjeong. The Temple dates to 678, and consists of many buildings on a few levels. Lots of carvings of dragons. Buddhas. A large drum had its own pavilion. Here are some views:<br />
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We walked up a stone pathway to another temple farther up the mountain. The path also went to the gates of the Fortress of Geumjeongsan, but I was too beat. We flagged another cab on the way back. There was already a monk sitting up with the driver, who flew down the mountain, all the while talking animatedly to the monk, hands only occasionally on the wheel. Moments later we arrived safely at the subway station. <br />
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We had to get back to Haeundae for the closing ceremonies of PIFF and the movie. Seats were unreserved and a pre-screening concert was promised, so we got there early. After the excessive introductions, awards and speeches, there was a brief performance by a troupe of lady drummers in contemporary traditional dress. Twirling from drum to drum performing very dramatically. Then it was showtime, but not much of a concert. <i>Crazy Stone</i> was supposed to be a dark comedy likened to <i>Ocean's Eleven</i>, but where OE focused on mind games between protagonists, CS was supposed to highlight social issues. Yeah, right.<br />
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To round out our use of various means of transportation in Korea, we took the high speed train back to Seoul for our last couple of days.<br />
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We stopped one more time in Insadong to pick up a few gifts. Had dumplings (man-doo) once more, answered questions for two surveys complete with photos. There was no line for the Donut Lady, so I got one (delicious with a cornmeal flavor and bits of corn, pea, nut, cinnamon), and then a traditional wedding procession came down the street with lovely lady drummers. There were also people wearing signs that offered "Free Hugs."<br />
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We stopped for an extraordinary show at the <b>Gallery Seng</b> by an artist named Young-Geun Park. Soon after we entered and looked at perhaps one painting, he came over and explained a few of the paintings and presented us with the catalogue/book for the show, which he had assembled. The book added much to the viewing experience.<br />
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And so closes our Korea adventures. <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/104736255580266670479/KoreaMisc#slideshow/5501725999403452802">Click here for a few more photos</a>.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>(2008-09) This was a Christmas-to-New Years trip that was conceived during the heat of a Florida July. We flew into Amsterdam, rented a car and headed for Germany. First stop was the Hanseatic city of BREMEN.<br />
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The sun was out, so we enjoyed our walk into town looking at the big houses on one side and the River Weser on the other. We passed the cultural complex situated on the edge of a park that was once the moat around the city walls and then came to <b>The Schnoor</b>. Schnoorviertel is the Old Town; where the oldest buildings date from the 15th century, and most are 17th and 18th.<br />
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After wandering the narrow streets lined with shops and Art galleries, we emerged on the other side and were soon in the Marketplatz, home of St. Petri Dom, the Rathaus and one of Bremen’s most famous residents: the <b>statue of Roland</b>. Erected in 1404, it is 18 feet tall and made of sandstone. His name comes from a vassal of emperor Charlemagne, Duke Roland of Brittany, who in 778 lost his life in the Pyrenees fighting with the Basques. There was also a very nice Christmas Market, where we grabbed a lovely bowl of lentil soup for lunch.<br />
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Other famous residents were found across the square: <i>Die Stadtmusikanten</i>, the renown depiction of the <b>Bremen Town Musicians</b>, donkey, dog, cat and rooster – the stars of the Grimm Brothers fairytale. The bronze sculpture was created in 1951 by the artist Gerhard Marcks. Right next door was <b>St. Peter’s cathedral</b>, 13th century. The interior was painted stone in red, blue and yellow. Very attractive.<br />
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From there it was a short walk to the entrance of the <b>Böttcherstrasse</b>. A narrow alley lined with craftsmen, it was given its name in the Middle Ages when it was home to the barrel makers and coopers. <i>The Lichtbringer</i> (below) by Bernhard Hoetger was the large gold relief which marks the entrance.<br />
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Among the sights to be seen here were the <b>Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum</b> and the <b>Roselius House Museum</b>. Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) was one of the most important German expressionist painters and Ludwig Roselius was an art collector and businessman who invented decaffeinated coffee. It was he who commissioned artists to transform the old street in the 1920’s.<br />
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The <b>House of Atlantis </b>was a Hilton hotel in the Böttcherstrasse and home of <b>The Sky Room</b> or <b>Himmelssaal</b>. The attraction here was the blue glass ceiling, as well as the outstanding design and decor.<br />
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Outside there was a small square with a carillon of thirty Meissen bells made of porcelain by Lutz Dietze. They ring at noon, three & six while the story of famous Bremen seamen was displayed on rotating, carved boards designed by Hoetger. Lutz Dietze was a craftsman with Meissen specializing in bells until early in the war, when he was thrown into prison by the Nazis. Meissen arranged to have him released so that he could complete making the set of bells. He was then returned to a concentration camp where he died. They are very beautiful to hear. <a href="http://youtu.be/VjoeJSMVrzs">Click here for video.</a><br />
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Another outstanding Christmas Market was going at the <b>Schlachte</b>, the old harbor, turned upscale riverside shopping district. For the holiday it was a medieval shopping mall with stalls offering candy, candles, and more from the olden days. We heard a most unusual group of Mongolian musicians. <a href="http://youtu.be/2d5RAuhqgTU">Click here for video</a>.<br />
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We then crossed a bridge to an island in the middle of the river and home to the <b>Neues Museum Weserburg</b>, which was the largest museum of contemporary art in Germany. One of the featured displays in this reclaimed coffee factory was of large photos of scantily clad women by Helmut Newton. There was a display in the “attic” consisting of different sizes of speakers. They had no sound. Appropriately, admission included an espresso at the end of the visit.<br />
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We walked all the way across the city in search of the <b>Übersee Museum</b>. While this was the Bremen city museum, there were often exhibitions of Art. They had a display about the American West featuring a portrait of Sitting Bull when we were there. The museum looked out onto <b>Bahnhofplatz</b>, where we found another Christmas market in front of the fine old train station.<br />
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It was late, but we thought we’d stop at the <b>Kunsthalle </b>to check on the schedule for the next day. That’s when we learned that the museum had just closed for the next two years. (Note: this was in 2007 and the museum is now scheduled to reopen 2010/2011.) Kunsthalle’s art collection includes paintings and sculptures dating from the 15th century to the present. The museum’s best holdings are of the German Expressionists and French Impressionists.<br />
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Next door in the cultural complex is the <b>Bildhauermuseum/Gerhard-Marcks-Haus</b>. After hearing of our disappointment at finding the Kunsthalle closed, we were invited in to look at the artwork gratis. This elegant sanctuary of contemporary sculpture displayed rotating exhibits inside and a peaceful sculpture garden with works by Marcks (1889-1981). (Creator of Bremen’s famous Musikanten, remember?)<br />
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So ended our sojourn in Bremen. I have to admit, we did not try a local delicacy called Rollos (a cross between burrito and lahmacun (turkish pizza) or the fish cakes with green sauce, as it appears all the fish cakes we saw were deep fried to death. Though we did enjoy some herring, the emblematic fish of the Hanseatic League. <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/centerforartlovers/Bremen#slideshow/5490540334333581586">Click here for more photos from Bremen:</a><br />
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It was a short drive to HAMBURG for our next adventures. Upon arrival we bought a Hamburg Pass, which included unlimited transport for three days, plus discounts. We used our first discount that evening at the <b>Kunsthalle und Gallerie der Gegenwart</b> which was right next to the train station.<br />
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The whole spectrum of periods and styles - lots of German painters, a few Cranachs, lots of religious, German Expressionists; from 13th century to contemporary, featuring work by Richard Serra, Francis Bacon and others. I liked the mosquitoes over the staircase, and there was a good painting by Paula Robeson.<br />
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Then we, of course, went to the Christmas market across the street, along the Kirschenalle. Up one lane and down another. I think it was actually more than one market pushed together. And though it was Sunday night, the atmosphere was as lively as Bremen, with fewer families. We saw some good Cossak singers serenading the crowds. <a href="http://youtu.be/6TtWPSFQrfU">Click here for video</a>.<br />
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On tv that night we recognized some animated art with cartoon called “Bernard die Eisbarren” and then “Bernd das Brot.” Both good. Bernie the Polarbear goes from almost idiotic joyful happiness to being an angry growling monster. And how can you resist an adventurous loaf of bread? We never saw them again on our trip.<br />
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One of our non-Art expeditions actually was about Art, because Marie wanted to see live polar bears to help her with paintings that she did for a show in Gainesville. We began at <b>Hagenbeck Tiergarten</b>, in the NW part of town. We got a small discount with the card and although it was pretty cold, there were other visitors at the zoo. And while we found the space that was assigned to polar bears, there were none. Lots of grizzlies, however, and flamingos.<br />
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And I found the old art nouveau entrance from 1907 when the Hagenbeck family opened the park. They continued to add to their gardens with bronzes from the Orient, totem poles from the Pacific Northwest, and creating special habitats. In 1909, life-sized dinosaurs were sculpted and there have been the recent additions like the <i>Sala Thai</i> on Burma pond and Nepalese pagoda temple above the new entrance. There were often exhibitions by animal artists.<br />
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Even the U-Bahn stop across from the riverfront was a modern art creation named for the Landungsbrücken building. The River was the Elbe and the old market building was in the process of being renovated. We walked out to the floating dock and continued along the river past the many cruise boat offerings.<br />
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Since the sun made an early exit as we neared Christmas in this northerly clime, we took the U-Bahn to the Rathaus to check out the Christmas markets there as well as look at the decorations along the inner harbor. If you were not aware, there are lots of canals in Hamburg, many beginning at this basin. This was where the high end shops and hotels were found. <a href="http://youtu.be/E0ze8pY_1Tg">Click here for video of accordion band</a>.<br />
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It was just a short walk to <b>Bucerius Kunst Forum</b>, which was supposed to be “a bridge between classical and modern art.” Guest curators were commissioned to design and develop four exhibitions each year. There were two temporary exhibits when we were there, almost everything from 15th & 16th centuries in the two smallish rooms. The building featured very nice mosaic floors and columns.<br />
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Walked a few streets over to find the <b>Reeperbahn</b>, Hamburg’s “red light district.” Unlike Amsterdam, there were no prostitutes displayed in the store windows, just a bunch of toy stores, peep shows, and clubs. We did find a sidewalk sculpture commemorating the Beatles debut in Hamburg in one of those clubs.<br />
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There was also a Christmas market there, unlike the others. This market put the X in Xmas with special offerings of dildos, condoms, exotic this and erotic that. That about wraps up the Hamburg portion of the trip. <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/centerforartlovers/Hamburg#slideshow/5490718837097874882">Click here for more pictures of Hamburg</a>. Now it was time to head for Berlin.<br />
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Again, it was not a long drive to BERLIN, and after finding our hotel, we hopped on a tram and began our explorations at the Alexanderplatz and its Christmas market. They are called Wienacht markets, here, and we saw more Cossak singers. Since we were not going to be taking on any museums that day, we saw the sights, like <b>Unter den Linden</b>, the magnificent boulevard with the center filled with a double row of Linden trees which runs from Museum Island to the Brandenberger Tor.<br />
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One in a series of city gates,<b> Brandenberg Gate</b> was built from 1788 to 1791 and after restoration, was one of the most recognizable landmarks in the World. One short block from there, along the eastern edge of the Tierpark, we found the <b>Holocaust Memorial.</b><br />
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A large area (almost five acres) precisely covered with rows of rectangular blocks made of finished stone; width and length were always about four feet by ten feet, with the height ranging from two feet to fifteen feet and higher. They were separated by long straight paths of paving block that undulated from end to end.<br />
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It was created by Peter Eisenman and Buro Happold in 2003 and 2004. I’ve read that it was controversial, but we found it very moving.<br />
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Christmas Day on <b>Museumsinsel</b> - Museum Island - which was between Alexanderplatz and the Brandenberg Gate. There was lots of construction going on when we were there and we had some difficulty figuring out which building contained which collection and which was open.<br />
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Although the first exhibition hall on this part of the island in the River Spree was erected in 1797, and the design for the Altes Museum was completed in 1822 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (built in 1830), it was in 1841 that Kaiser Wilhem IV dedicated the area to Art and Science. The Altes houses the Classical Antiquities collection, displaying some of its vast Greek and Roman holdings.<br />
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We went into the <b>Altes Nationalgalerie</b>, reopened in 2001, home of 19th Century Art; spanning from Classicism through Romanticism and Impressionism. The museum came into being when banker J.H.W. Wagener bequeathed his art collection in 1861. The building was completed in 1876, between the French Revolution and WWI, between Classicism and Secessionists, all with a heavy German slant.<br />
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The building grandiose, the collection a bit disappointing. Just three shows and again no permanent collections on display. There were a few names like: Cézanne, Monet, Manet, Pissaro, Corot, Goya and others, but not works of quality (at least in our opinions) and usually one painting by each artist. There was one painting that illustrated how a great granite bowl was ground out, and as we left Museum Island, I noticed that same granite bowl in front of the Pergamon Museum.<br />
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At the tip of Museum Island was the <b>Bode Museum</b> (1904), which contained the Classical sculpture collection and Numismatic collection. The Egyptian Museum and Museum of Prehistory and Early History were housed in the Neues Museum, which reopened in 2009. The collection was considered one of the best in Europe, with a famous bust of Nefertiti.<br />
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The largest building was the <b>Pergamon,</b> which houses three museums: 1) Collection of Classical Antiquities with Great Altar of Pergamon and the Gate of Ishtar; 2) Museum of the Ancient Near East, in the South Wing of the Pergamon; and 3) the Museum for Islamic Art was in the North Wing.<br />
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We headed to the <b>Kulturforum</b> complex over west of Potsdammerplatz. There we found the <b>Neues National Gallery,</b> a stunning 1968 glass building by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed to house Berlin's permanent exhibition of 20th century European visual art, with heavy German Expressionism.<br />
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There were two shows going on at the time: Jeff Koons, of the mylar water balloon animals, and Paul Klee.<br />
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Also in the Kulturforum was the <b>Gemäldegalerie</b>, which focused on medieval to 18th century Art. Lots of Cranachs, and wall after wall of religious Art. Probably the most ever. An uncountable number of Marys. As Marie said, “a great place for Christmas.” There were also Rembrandts, Titian, Fra Angelica, Breugel (and Cranach’s Breugel-like paintings). There were paintings by Cranach Jr., a Vermeer, several Bellini that M liked, and a couple of women artists. Finally, in the very last room of the entire museum, I found a couple by Botticelli. The museum was quite large and had nice molded wood benches in various nooks for resting.<br />
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We closed the place at six o’clock and then it was even colder. Discovered a concert of music right next door at <b>Sankt Matthäus Kirche</b>. Actually it was a service with music, a little period group of flute, viola, harp, and five to six women singing. Sometimes they were accompanied by an organ. The church was all white with Art hanging along the side galleries. On the back of the alter was a large silvery artwork. Also in front there was a very large Christmas tree decorated with real lit candles. There were lit candles throughout, even among the pews between the prayer books.<br />
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Next stop was the <b>Sony Center</b> near Potsdammerplatz. This was a large semi-covered space surrounded by glass buildings. Giant Lego characters welcomed us to the Christmas market. We found a small hut inside with inside seating (because it was still cold in the Sony Center) and got Glühwein and a bowl of soup. The lights were fun.<br />
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Walked up <b>Unter den Linden</b> with all the lights wound around the bare Linden limbs. There were still a few Wienacht markets open complete with Ferris wheel, tube slide, and skating rink.<br />
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Day after Christmas we visited <b>Nikolasplatz</b>, considered the old part of Berlin. We went right past the Christmas market in the Schlosspark in front of the Rathaus. In the center of the park-turned-Wienacht market was a monumental fountain featuring <i>Neptune</i> by R. Begas, surrounded by a donut shaped skating surface for the season. Nice carousels as well. Behind the Rathaus was Nikolas Viertel, supposed to be Medieval, but didn’t feel like it, except for the Nikolaskirche. In a small churchyard was a column with a caged bear on top and an over-sized sculpture of a woman. The church is from about 1230.<br />
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Took the U & S-bahns to the Zoo in search of polar bear models. On the way I spotted a large stainless steel horse sculpture from the train, so we hopped off to take some pics.<br />
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The station itself was very nice large contemporary; all glass like the Kennedy library. Four-armed supports for the train lines began on the bottom level and reach up. We could see down three levels. Very elegant design. Back on the train and around the West end of the Tierpark. We saw the <i>Siegessäule</i> down two or three spokes before the train got to the zoo.<br />
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Crowds were already pouring in when we got there, so we headed straight for the polar bear enclosures. First we found the habitat for the famous Knute (pronounced with a hard K), but he was curled up in a hole sleeping. So we explored. The habitats seem to be pretty nice, for what they were, and they had some ridiculous number of species living there. Interesting buildings, some with thatched roofs, lots of grass and vegetation, and the best playground.<br />
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Next to Knute was a single grizzly who was photogenic, then we found a pair of black bears, and beyond them was the other polar bear habitat where we found Mannfred, a terrific artist's model in M's opinion. When we went back to see Knute, he was awake. At one year old, Knute lived alone and amused himself by chasing butterflies, other insects, and a couple of crows. Marie made lots of sketches of Knute and Mannfred.<br />
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It was a short walk to Breitscheidplatz and <b>Kaiser Wilhelm Church – Gedächtniskirche</b>. Consecrated in 1895, it was built by Kaiser Wilhelm II in honor of his grandfather. The church was bombed out during the war and kept as a ruin for a reminder and, as I understand it, an expression of culpability. Next to it was a chapel with blue glass walls and a much too big and gory gold crucifix. Right outside was a Christmas market which we dutifully inspected and ate at.<br />
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From there we took the S-bahn to Charlottenburg. Actually we went to Sophie-Charlotte-Platz and walked down to Charlottenburg, where the Schloss was. We walked the length of Schlosstrasse where at the end were two museums: the <b>Bröhan Museum</b> (nouveau and deco design items) and<b> Sammlung Berggruen</b>, a formerly private collection with a great variety.<br />
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We skipped the first. Heinz Berggruen’s collection offered works of classic modern Art (early 20th century), with special emphasis on Picasso, Klee, Giacometti and Matisse. There were three floors with a large spiral staircase in the center.<br />
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Across the street was <b>Schloss Charlottenburg</b> (ornate palace built in 1695) which served as temporary home to state collections during renovations at other museums. And in front of it was a Christmas market. We could tell right away that this was a bit more upscale than most with items not yet seen at others. There were also brass players playing music throughout the site, and they weren’t asking for tips.<br />
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Tried to get an earlier start since we had a long way to go to the flea market at Kennedyplatz which was in Schoenberg, south of the city. We took a series of trams to Warschauer station where we got on the U-1. Very funky station with small yellow cars, this was Berlin’s oldest line. Most of the trip was above ground, so we got to see more Berlin. The next thing we saw was this wild looking building up ahead and then we’re going through the building. Turns out this was a bridge over the River Spree called the <b>Oberbaumbrücke</b>; clad in brick, its unusual design includes twin-towers in a neo-Gothic style.<br />
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The Oberbaumbrücke was directly on the former east-west border, and during the existence of the Berlin Wall, it served as a pedestrian-only border crossing point. Along the West side of the river was the longest surviving segment of the Wall. We went back later to take pictures.<br />
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We changed trains at Nollendorfplatz for the U4, which had just two of the small yellow cars and the stations looked even older, more funky. We were underground until we pulled into the enclosed Rathaus Schoenburg station. When we stepped out of the train, the first thing we saw, through large mullioned windows was a schloss with gardens. After the short train left the station, directly back into the tunnel, we could see that the other side of the station also had large windows, but these faced a small pond with an even smaller reed marsh and some ducks. Beyond this was a large park.<br />
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It was just a short walk to the Rathaus and Kennedyplatz (named for JFK), where the flea market (trödelmarkt) was going on. Lots of good stuff; antiques and plenty of junk as well. I bought a Communist medal and Marie got some little copper things.<br />
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We took buses north into the Tierpark and Grosser Stern and the tall column at the center of the park called <i>Siegessäule </i>with the Golden Else on top. A Bismarck memorial faced the column.<br />
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The bus continued along the north edge of the park to the Tor/Gate. From there we walked up Freidrickstrasse to Tacheles. Or <b>Kunsthaus Tacheles</b>, if you please.<br />
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Built in 1908, Friedrichstraßenpassage originally was an early shopping mall, it received only minimal damage from bombing, yet demolition began in 1980. The final sections were slated to come down in April of 1990, but just two months before, the Künstlerinitiative Tacheles occupied the building. They tried to prevent the demolition through discussions and to make a long story short, a last-minute injunction was issued. "Tacheles" is a Yiddish word for "plain, honest, straightforward talk," as this was in the Jewish quarter. Originally it served as living and working place for artists from around the world. The walls were painted bright colors and sculptures went up in the courtyards. A very inhomogeneous group, as I understand it, moved in.<br />
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It was a graffiti-covered building now and we walked up a few flights of stairs without finding anything resembling Art, though by the front door someone was selling t-shirts and stuff. Went out back to what was euphemistically referred to as a “sculpture garden.” While there were a few pieces one could call sculpture, you could never refer to the trash-filled mud hole as a garden. The lease was up in 2008 and the future still unknown.<br />
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We headed south again cutting across the tip of Museum Island, the Bode Museum, and a woman playing an accordion.<br />
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Went through the <i>Kunst und Nostalgiemarkt</i>, an outdoor Art and Antique market, and came upon the <b>Gendarmenmarkt</b>, allegedly one of the most beautiful squares in Europe. For the holidays it was filled with a Christmas market, albeit a nice one which charged €1 admission.<br />
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Tried again at the Daimler museum, for which we rang the bell a few days earlier and still got no answer. And we gave up on finding the Guggenheim, as well. The <b>Daimler Collection</b> consists of 1,800 works by German and international artists focused on abstract and geometrical concepts. <b>Deutsche Guggenheim</b>, which celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2007, collaborates with the Guggenheim Foundation and Deutsche Bank, where the museum was located. Christmas may not be the best time to catch these venues.<br />
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On our way to out of town, we revisited the<b> Oberbaumbrücke</b>. From the bridge we could see Jonathon Borosky’s <i>Molecule Man</i>. The 100-foot high, aluminum sculpture was installed in the Spree and can be seen from far up and down river.<br />
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As I mention previously, beginning at the Western foot of the bridge is the longest remaining section of the Wall. It was called the <b>East Side Gallery</b> where hundreds of artists painted on segments. Most had been vandalized or grafittied over.<br />
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There were a few venues that we couldn’t get to either due to the season or limited time or they were closed. Such as <b>Hamburger Bahnhof</b>, <b>Museum fur Gegenwart</b> (contemporary art) or <b>Freidrichswerdersche Kirche</b> with 19th century sculptures. The <b>Collection of Scharf-Gerstenberg </b>is over 250 works by Surrealists and their forerunners: Piranesi, Goya, and Redon to Dali, Magritte, Max Ernst and Dubuffet, and was located in the <b>Eastern Stuler building</b> opposite the Charlottenburg Palace. And more, of course. <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/centerforartlovers/Berlin#slideshow/5490723643559464418">Click here for more photos of Berlin</a>.<br />
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It was just a couple of hours to DRESDEN, the legendary fairytale city that was firebombed at the end of WWII. We parked on the south side of the Elbe and quickly found ourselves wandering among the old Baroque edifices from when Dresden was the capitol of Saxony. Well, at least the reconstructed buildings. The bombing in February of 1945 was quite thorough.<br />
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We started by walking around on top of the <b>Zwinger</b>. Built 1710-28, originally designed as an orangery and a setting for court festivities, it was later used for exhibitions. The most perfect example of Late Baroque architecture in Germany. Construction of the Semper Gallery ran from 1847 to 1855. <a href="http://youtu.be/V88KX_lNrTw">Click here for video</a>.<br />
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The Zwinger housed the Old Masters Picture Gallery, Armoury (Rüstkammer), Porcelain Collection, Zoological Museum, and sculpture collection. The large enclosed courtyard could be walked upon and offered a unique tour of the Zwinger. On one end was the carillon of Miessen bells that played every fifteen minutes. There were broad staircases inside and out, and fountains. Everything one might expect in an overly ornate building. The Palace and Hofkirche were across the street. The Opera House next door. Something to behold.<br />
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We went into the Picture Gallery – the only museum we would be interested in that was not under construction. <b>The Gemaldegallerie</b> has works of Rafael, Tizian, Rubens, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Cranach, Poussin and others. Then we ate soup at the museum café, which was very nice.<br />
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For fans of the famous European pruned trees, in a couple of places there were groves of trees with their branches intermingled. This must be an Art.<br />
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In the Augustusstrasse, at the back side of the Royal Mews, a 334-foot long mural decorated the wall. Known as <i>The Procession of Princes</i> or <i>Fürstenzug</i> in German, it depicted a parade of rulers of the House of Wettin since 1127. In total thirty-five princes, dukes, kings, etc. are shown on horseback while foot soldiers and other people accompany them. The name of each ruler was inscribed below his image. Interestingly, everyone was shown wearing the same period clothing styles.<br />
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<i>The Procession of Princes</i> was originally painted between 1870 and 1876 by Wilhelm Walter. When the stucco started to deteriorate it was replaced between 1906 and 1907 with almost 25,000 ceramic tiles from the porcelain manufacturer Meissen. The tiles miraculously survived the devastating aerial bombardment..<br />
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While we had some sunshine, we walked across the Augustusbrucke to the other side of the Elbe. More modern structures with the exception of the gold statue of Augustus the Strong. The days were very short and we were to be in Praha that night.<br />
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Once settled in, we walked from our hotel to the tram stop on the outskirts of PRAGUE/PRAHA. The tram-ride into town was always an interesting voyage. It went down long, fairly steep hills through an almost rural setting. Then it crossed the River Vitava, before going through residential neighborhoods. Past the exhibition center where the tram began to follow the Dukelských hrdinů. Past the four sculptures in front of the Veletrižní Paláce branch of the National Gallery. Then it followed along the river before taking a hard left over the river once more into the heart of downtown.<br />
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We got off at <b>Karlův most</b> (Charles Bridge) and walked across the Vitava River. Begun in 1357 when Charles IV was in charge, it was finished in the beginning of the 15th century connecting the Old Town and Prague Castle. There were artists hawking their wares on the bridge, a local tradition. Marie bought a piece of wire wrapped stone jewelry and we watched the tourists rub a statue and pose for pictures.<br />
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We caught the 22 tram on the hill leading up to <b>Prague Castle</b>. This took us along the river and back into the Old Town area. Eventually we just got off without knowing quite where we were. With luck we happened upon <b>Wenceslas Square</b> or Vaclavske namesti in Czech. Both sides of this boulevard, not really a square, were lined with huge Nouveau buildings, many hotels, and a Christmas market in the middle. The equestrian statue of Vaclavske stood at the other end, but it was too cold to walk down.<br />
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From the foot of Vaclavske we turned onto Na Příkopě Street, a very fashionable district. There we found the fabulously Art Nouveau or Secession-era <b>Municipal House</b> (Obecní dům, built 1906-1912). The most significant Czech painters and sculptors of the time participated in the decoration of the Municipal House. That list included: Jan Preisler, Mikoláš Aleš, Max Švabinský, František Ženíšek, Ladislav Šaloun, Josef Mařatka, Josef Václav Myslbek, and Alfons Mucha. It featured Prague's largest concert hall and a great Art Nouveau café. Kavárna Obecní dům was considered among the most beautiful cafes in Prague and right next door was the Powder Tower from 1475.<br />
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From here we explored the <b>Old Town</b>. Like other medieval cities, there were blocks and blocks of shops peddling souvenirs, clothing, Art, and more, so the window shopping was entertaining. We stopped in art galleries, glass shops, and priced beer offerings.<br />
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We got to <b>Staromestske namesti </b>with plenty of time to make it across the square to hear the chimes and watch the Astronomical Clock. But the plaza was filled with a Christmas market and a holiday crowd, and it took so long to cross, we only saw the end of the show. We came back another time. The Old Town Hall Astronomical Clock had a 230-foot-tall spire. The Clock kept several versions of time. Two outer rings showed the hour: Bohemian time (Gothic numbers, with hours counted from sunset) and our time (twenty-four Roman numerals, XII at the top being noon, XII at the bottom being midnight). Everything revolved around the earth (the fixed middle background, with Prague at the center). Arcing lines and moving spheres combined with the big hand (a sweeping golden sun) and the little hand (the moon showing various stages) to indicate the times of sunset and sunrise.<br />
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Four statues flanked the clock representing 15th-century Prague's four biggest worries: invasion (the Turk), death (skeleton), greed (a moneylender), and vanity (enjoying the mirror). At the top of the hour, 1) death tipped his hourglass and pulled the chord ringing the bell, 2) the windows opened and the twelve apostles paraded by acknowledging the onlookers, 3) the rooster crowed, and 4) the hour was rung. <a href="http://youtu.be/KTUGUYNfLKQ">Click here for video.</a><br />
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From there it was a nice walk down Parizska and the fine storefronts and past the old synagogue and graveyard. But it soon got too cold for strolling.<br />
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I know we haven’t seen a lot of traditional Art yet on this visit. But, as I’ve said, you have to expand your definition of Art in order to fully appreciate everything you see. Among other superlatives, Prague is a treasure chest of Nouveau architecture.<br />
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The next day we were taking a road trip to JABLONEC NAD NISOU, the "Bead Capitol of Europe." Straight north through flat farmland to pine-covered hills, this has been a center for glass since the 13th century.<br />
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We began at the <b>Bead and Glass Museum</b>. A Nouveau building that was completely modernized inside. Marie wanted me to go in with her, but after buying the tickets and climbing the stairs, it was apparent that there was nothing of interest to me. I found a comfortable stool by a window and I waited. We were about the only ones in the gallery when I sat down in the sunshine. When I awoke, the room filled with people. I especially noticed the husbands dutifully following their wives. Nodding (as if they cared) when she would point out a particular piece of interest. M was very excited about the museum, which showed examples of the glass bead and jewelry styles over the years. A big map of the many glass workshops in the mountainous region was especially interesting. Some of them had been in business since the 1500’s.<br />
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But they should have a sports bar downstairs. There was some glass art on the top floor. Fortunately, there was no gift shop (just a couple of small display cases) so we were back on the streets of Jablonec. Because of the season, most of the innumerable bead shops were closed. One or two were apparently open but seemed to cater more to tourists than Artists. We eventually found just what Marie was looking for – a place with room after room filled with shelves holding bags, sacks, boxes, and casks of beads of every color. I should have waited in my fantasy sports bar. In the end Marie spent about 72 euros but she had a euphoric look about her.<br />
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New Year’s Eve. We were leaving the next day, so that was our last chance to see the Art museums up at <b>Prague Castle</b>. The courtyards were already filling up with tour groups when we arrived. I can’t imagine what it must be like in summer.<br />
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The <b>National Gallery of Prague</b> broke down like this: Old Masters were in the Sternberg Palace, St Agnes' Convent, and Schwarzenberg palace. Collection of 19th Century Art was at St George's Convent. Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art at Veletržní Palace, Kinský Palace, and the House at the Black Madonna while the Collection of Oriental Art was in the Zbraslav Chateau. These locations were spread out all over town.<br />
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We started with exhibitions in the <b>Sternberg Palace</b>, I believe it was called <i>Baroque in Bohemia</i>. There were some Cranachs, which is always nice.<br />
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Went out to <b>St. Vitus Cathedral</b>, which had several outstanding stained glass windows (made of Czech glass) including a 1931 creation by Alfons Mucha.<br />
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<b>St. Georges’ Convent</b> is also at Prague Castle so we dropped in to this very beautiful museum. Featured 19th-century collections, with emphasis on Bohemian artists.<br />
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Back down the hill, across Charlesbridge, and over to the <b>Mucha Museum</b>. Alfons Mucha (1860-1939) was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist best known for his style and images of women. While the museum was small, it had several interesting pieces including numerous posters for Sarah Bernhardt.<br />
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Most interesting was the video about the <i>Slav Epic</i> project. Very briefly, this referred to Mucha’s series of paintings on twenty enormous canvases. Each related to a different story in Czech or Slavic history, and they have been on display in Moravsky Krumlov in the south Moravian region for the past forty-five years, though there was always talk of moving them to Prague.<br />
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Spent New Years day driving to AMSTERDAM and it took all day driving through a light snow. We had been to Amsterdam several times before and have visited the major museums, and a few of the minor as well. But we were meeting family so were revisiting some and discovering another.<br />
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Before our scheduled rendezvous, we tried to see a temporary exhibition from the now-closed <b>Stedelijk Museum </b>(contemporary art), but when we found the place, we also found that it was closed. The nearby library was delightful, however, with a whole floor for Art and music.<br />
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Took a No. 5 tram all the way south to the <b>CoBrA Museum</b> in Amstelveen. Founded by artists from the three cities in the name (Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam) in the 1940s who wished to rebel from the establishment. Blah, blah. We liked the museum and the art very much. Some of the best contemporary I’ve seen in a while. The museum is in a mixed residential neighborhood with shopping malls and Christmas markets.<br />
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The next day we went to the new <b>Vincent van Gogh Museum</b>. I don’t think it’s really “new” anymore, but we had the good fortune of seeing the old museum. That was of a square, spiral design, where you could follow the chronology of Vincent’s paintings, from the Potato eaters of Holland to the crows over the fields of France. The new museum was more in order by period rather than piece. One reason is because it is difficult to know precisely when a painting was completed. It was a nice enough building. Downstairs were paintings by various friends and influences. Of interest was a Vermeer borrowed from the Rijks.<br />
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We would soon figure out that not only was the Stedelijk closed, a good bit of <b>Rijksmuseum</b> was closed as well. There wasn’t near the amount of art we recalled from before; however, the three Vermeers and many Rembrandts were very nice to see.<br />
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