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Category Archives: Museums
Denmark Is A Rainbow Panorama
Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson’s new polychromatic installation on top of the Aarhus ARoS Art Museum offers a vivid, candy-colored 360° view of the city. Titled “your rainbow panorama” the viewing platform divides Denmark’s second city into intense color zones. photos … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Europe, Museums, Tourism
Tagged Aarhus, Denmark, Olafur Eliasson
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Maps Are History
The 2011 London Map Fair, taking place in the historic surroundings of the Royal Geographical Society, is the most established and largest antiquarian map fair in Europe: over forty of the leading national and international specialist map dealers will be … Continue reading
Posted in History, Maps, Museums
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New Hampshire, really, New Hampshire
Street art has its roots in rebellion. Once considered underground, urban and graffiti art, it has over the last 30 years gained acceptance and popularity in the art community. It now exists in galleries and museums as well as on … Continue reading
Yale Finally Opens Up
Yale University has just opened up its museum archives to the public providing limited free online access to images from its vast cultural collections. Currently, they’ve offered access to 250,000 images at their new online catalog, with the goal of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Libraries, Maps, Museums, Photography, USA, Writing
Tagged Beinecke Library, Kipling, Mozart, Peabody Museum, Van Gogh, Yale
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Antwerp Throws a MAS Bash
Antwerp, Belgium’s great port city and best kept travel secret, started a three day celebration bash yesterday to launch its audacious new MAS museum. The spectacular 10-story museum, which takes its name from the Dutch acronym for Museum on the … Continue reading
Please Come to Boston…
From May 3rd until June 19th visitors to Boston’s sublime Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will get a chance to see seven rare Venetian manuscripts from the museum’s extensive rare books collection. The exhibition , called Illuminating the Serenissima: Books of … Continue reading
The Art of the Car
The Musée des Arts Paris is now presenting “The Art of the Automobile” , which features 17 fabulous cars from Ralph Lauren’s amazing car collection. The cars on display—among them Bentley, Mercedes, Jaguar, Ferrari and Bugatti—provide a visual timeline for … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Europe, Museums, Photography
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London Is Getting Messy (pt 1)
Wednesday artists from art activist group Liberate Tate staged a performance in the Tate Britain on the anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 workers and spilled 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over … Continue reading
Art In The Streets
Art in the Streets is the first significant US museum survey of graffiti and street art. The show traces the historical development of graffiti and street art from the 70s to today’s vibrant, global movement. It focuses mainly on the … Continue reading
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Travel Between The Pages 