Yes, I know there are people in the world who don’t like a good cup of java. I was one of them until I turned 20, needed a second job and worked as a barista for two years starting a lifelong addiction to everything caffeinated and brewed. Well, if I...
When Oscar Niemeyer (who designed his own museum, see top photo) died at the age of 104 a few years ago he joined a long list of architects who never seem to die. I.M. Pei is still going at it at the age of 98. And let’s not forget 93-year-old...
My least favourite time of year is coming to an end. Yes, I am talking about the holiday season, and by holiday I mean all the American celebrations associated with November and December, like Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Chanukkah, Christmas, New Year’s etc. And I’m not using the word holiday to...
Let’s continue our celebration of all things American with Iowa’s Freedom Rock. It all started back in 1999, when a local artist named Ray “Bubba” Sorenson II from Menlo, Iowa saw the film Saving Private Ryan. It inspired him to honour America’s veterans every year on Memorial Day by repainting...
One of the world’s most obscure art museums, or should I say remote, also has the world’s longest name…the State Art Museum of the Republic of Karakalpakstan aka the Nukus Museum of Art. Located in Uzbekistan, a random two-story white tiled building is surrounded by hundreds of miles of desert...
Even though Tuesday’s post on LBJ wasn’t too popular, I guess this week’s theme continues with another presidential museum. Yesterday I was watching the evening news because I am 75 years old, and to my surprise they were talking about a weird museum. How exciting! Since 1965 a small bank...
Kodak Number 1, 1891 National Media Museum, England Kodak’s second camera was produced from 1889 to 1895. It “differs slightly from the original, featuring an easily removable lens board, and an improved sector shutter. The shutter was set by pulling a string and tripped by pressing a button on the...
Yesterday I told you about an old church in southern Germany, and today we continue the theme with another old church, this time in the Czech Republic. Consecrated in 1352, Kostel svatého Jiří (St. George’s Church) in Luková, Czech Republic had been neglected for more than forty years, partly because...
Like a hoarder who has banker boxes full of tax returns from thirty-years ago piled up to the ceiling, the F.A.S.T. Corporation just can’t let anything go. In the field behind their workshop in Sparta, Wisconsin are leftovers from almost every job they’ve ever done; the huge and colorful statues...
I just read on-line that a museum in Berlin, the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, has a Vincent van Gogh art piece on display. But this isn’t a newly discovered painting by the Dutch master, no, this is a copy of his ear (you know, the one he famously...
