Food for the Soul: A Year of Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer. The Concert, 1663-1666. Oil on canvas. Stolen from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. Photo: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
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Food for the Soul: A Year of Vermeer
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout We celebrated the year 2019 as “The Year of da Vinci,” reporting all year long from the groundbreaking exhibition at the Louvre as well as anniversary exhibitions in Italy, Poland, and the Netherlands. We would like to celebrate 2023 as “The Year of Vermeer,” inspired by the upcoming,…
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Food for the Soul: Beautiful Banknotes
Józef Mehoffer. Allegory of Saving (1933). Stained glass window, KOMK Bank, Kraków. Photo: Zygmunt Put/Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout “All these pieces of paper are issued with as much solemnity and authority as if they were of pure gold or silver…and indeed everybody takes them readily, for wheresoever a person may…
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Food for the Soul – The Lust for Travel
James Tissot. Ball on Shipboard (1874). Tate Britain. Photo: Wikimedia Commons “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” ~ St. Augustine By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout While we may be upset by the various pandemic travel restrictions the world is now experiencing, it is worth…
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Food for the Soul: Law, Justice, and Art
Wu Youru. Regaining the Provincial Capital of Ruizhou (1886). Private collection. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The conventional wisdom that “law” and “justice” are not the same thing can be illustrated by works of art from any historical period. The painting above represents a battle between the Chinese Imperial army…
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Feast for the Eyes
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout No one has ever rendered fruits more juicy or seafood more fresh than 17th-century painters in the Low Countries. Starting with late-Renaissance artists such as Pieter Aertsen and continuing for a century and half afterwards in the works of Dutch painters from Frans Snyders to Vermeer, this decorative tradition…
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Food for the Soul Oscar Contenders: Awards Season 2022–2023
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
This year, there are hardly any choices of theatrical films to qualify for Best Picture nominations. Current leading contenders in this year’s Oscar race …
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Food for the Soul Oscar Contenders: Awards Season 2022–2023
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout This year, there are hardly any choices of theatrical films to qualify for Best Picture nominations. Current leading contenders in this year’s Oscar race are All Quiet on the Western Front, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as well as Top Gun: Maverick. The last one, already predicted to win,…
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Food for the Soul — I Spy…
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout
For a cerebrally inclined viewer, spy shows have advantages over regular crime series. There is less gore (all those chopped-up bodies and morgue scenes get…
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Food for the Soul — I Spy…
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout For a cerebrally inclined viewer, spy shows have advantages over regular crime series. There is less gore (all those chopped-up bodies and morgue scenes get tiresome after a while), and there are more smart ideas. In celebration of the second season of one of the best spy shows…
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Food for the Soul – Rediscovering Artists
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout HILMA (2022; dir. Lasse Hallström) Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) was a Swedish abstractionist painter who was largely ignored and certainly misunderstood by her contemporaries—family, art critics, friends, the public. It took decades after her death in 1944 for her paintings to be rediscovered in an attic by her…
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Food for the Soul – Rediscovering Artists
Eric Ravilious. HMS Glorious in the Arctic, 1940. Watercolor on paper. Imperial War Museum, UK. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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Food for the Soul – Documentaries: How Artists Think
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Full-length documentaries require what our consumption of entertainment media totally lacks these days—lots of time and patience. We watch short videos on social media and episodes of TV shows, or we check out news videos on our phones. A long, slow art documentary requires an investment of both…
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Food for the Soul: Streaming … European Daily Life
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Colder autumn evenings are a perfect excuse for sitting in front of a smaller screen. There are hundreds of choices, from huge fantasy series like House of the Dragon (viewership for each episode numbers in the millions) to popular sci-fi or crime shows on major streaming services. Here…
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Food for the Soul: Streaming … European Daily Life
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
Colder autumn evenings are a perfect excuse for sitting in front of a smaller screen. There are hundreds of choices, from huge fantasy series like House of …
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Food for the Soul: Charles I – The Royal Connoisseur of Art
Anthony van Dyck. Charles I in Three Positions, 1635-6. Oil on canvas. National Portrait Gallery, UK. 84.4 x 99.4 cm. RCIN 404420. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017. Pho…
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Food for the Soul: Charles I – The Royal Connoisseur of Art
“Ars longa, vita brevis.” ~ Hippocrates, Aphorismi By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout As the world witnesses a historic change in Great Britain, which welcomes Charles III as the new king (the coronation ceremony has been scheduled for May 6, 2023), it is perhaps worth remembering the first English monarch of this name—Charles I…
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Happy and Unhappy Families
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.“~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, 1898 By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout Most really good artists would not paint a family—theirs or somebody else’s—just as a record of people’s faces. They would use the theme to say something important about their…
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Food for the Soul: Cozy Entertainment
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout
During WWII, Hollywood turned away from hard-hitting dramas toward lighter fare—mysteries, comedies, and musicals—resulting in such classics as The Phil…
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Food for the Soul: Cozy Entertainement
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout During WWII, Hollywood turned away from hard-hitting dramas toward lighter fare—mysteries, comedies, and musicals—resulting in such classics as The Philadelphia Story, The Maltese Falcon, Meet Me in St. Louis, and His Girl Friday. Perhaps the pandemic offers a similar explanation for the current revival of a genre that…
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Food for the Soul: Global Trade in Art, Part 4: THE AMERICAS
Arnoldus Florentius Langren (engraver). Map of the South America, c. 1596. Colored engraving on paper. Atlas of Mutual Heritage, Royal Library of the Netherlands. Photo: Wikimedia Commons CC0
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Food for the Soul: Global Trade in Art, Part 4: The Americas
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout “The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind.” ~ Adam Smith in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of…
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Food for the Soul: Guo Pei Exhibition — San Francisco
Guo Pei. Collection: 1002 Nights, 2010. Dress: Hand-painted silk, embroidered with silk threads, Swarovski crystals. Photo: The artist Image provided courtesy the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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Food for the Soul: Guo Pei Exhibition — San Francisco
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout Art museums sometimes showcase outstanding fashion designs, often presenting historical collections of artists who long ago earned their place in the pantheon of couture. Over the last few years, I have seen Chanel, Galliano, and Yves St. Laurent retrospectives in Paris, an Alexander McQueen show that is currently…
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Food for the Soul: Global Trade in Art Part 3 – Middle East
Paolo Veronese. The Marriage at Cana, 1563. Oil on canvas. The Louvre. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
Even if Venice itself is not in the Middle East, until the ea…
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Food for the Soul: Global Trade in Art Part 3- Middle East
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Even if Venice itself is not in the Middle East, until the early 1500s the Venetian empire, built on trade with Asia and the Levant, extended far beyond the city walls, incorporating such lands as Dalmatia and Istria, and reaching practically up to Constantinople. Venice was the gateway…
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Food for the Soul: Nina’s Euro Blog – Polish Palaces and Art in Naples
This post is inspired by the location of a very romantic wedding I recently attended in the center of Poland. Both the wedding ceremony and the party afterwards were held in the old palace and ga…
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Food for the Soul: Women Art Exhibitions—Venice and Paris
Leonora Carrington. Portrait of Max Ernst (ca. 1939). National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh. Purchased with assistance from the Henry and Sula Walton Fund and the Art Fund 2018. Photo: Courtesy P…
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Food for the Soul: Women Art Exhibitions—Venice and Paris
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout In recent years, exhibitions of women’s art have gained so much popularity that almost every week there is a local exhibition somewhere in the world. Predictably, the most ambitious shows tend to be hosted in the global art centers of Paris and Venice. Two important exhibitions focused on…
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Paris Exhibitions, Spring 2022
Gaudi and Maillol exhibitions at the Musée d’Orsay. Photo: Nina Heyn
After two years, Paris is again full of American tourists. You hear them everywhere—on the streets and in the museums and …
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Food for the Soul: Faces of Tuscany
Benozzo Gozzoli. Self-portrait (the man in blue in the middle) (1459). The Chapel of the Magi (west wall detail), Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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Food for the Soul: Faces of Tuscany
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout In Florentine museums and churches, there is an endless parade of Madonnas and altar compositions of the Holy Family, which have somewhat lost their religious impact after so many centuries of changing spiritual views. When they are displayed en masse in art galleries, what makes the most immediate…
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Food for the Soul: Nina’s Euro Blog
Warsaw’s businesses, homes and streets are decorated with yellow and blue pansies as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine. Photo: Nina Heyn
April 7 … I’m starting my trek through Europe from Wa…
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Polish Palaces and Art in Naples This post is inspired by the location of a very romantic wedding I recently attended in the center of Poland. Both the wedding ceremony and the party afterwards were held in the old palace and gardens of Bronice (near Nałęczów, a picturesque town famous for its natural springs and…
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Food for the Soul: Women Who Gave Us van Gogh – Women & Art Series 16
Johanna Bonger in April 1899 studio photo by Woodbury & Page. Photo: National Library of the Netherlands via Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout
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Food for the Soul: Women Who Gave Us van Gogh – Women & Art Series 16
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout Paris at the end of the 19th century was packed with sophisticated men who loved art. They were making it, discussing it, and selling it. There were those who created new styles—like Monet, Gauguin, or Cézanne. Others excelled as art dealers, like marchand Paul Durand-Ruel, who handled sales…
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Food for the Soul: Lviv National Gallery of Art
Henryk Siemiradzki. Christ and the Woman of Samaria (1890). Lviv National Art Gallery. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
The world is watching bad—and then worse—…
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Food for the Soul: Lviv National Gallery of Art
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The world is watching bad—and then worse—news coming out of Ukraine every day. Millions of people, even those who last month were not sure where Ukraine actually is, now follow the tragedy of people losing their lives, homes, livelihoods, and a homeland. There is one more thing that…
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Food for the Soul: Comets – Looking Skyward for Inspiration
The Comet of 1680 over Rotterdam. Lieve Verschuier (1680). Rotterdam Historic Museum. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain “As above, so below.” ~ Hermes Trismegistus (6th century AD) By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout A sudden appearance in the night sky of an exotic shape of a ball and a shiny tail would be hard…
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Food for the Soul: Gideon’s River Test
Gideon. Sketch for a fresco. Franz Anton Maulbertsch (1796). Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Photo: Wikimediart.org By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout There is a longstanding intellectual debate about whether an individual can change history. Attila the Hun, Alexander the Great, and Adolf Hitler come to mind in support of this argument, with countless…
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Food for the Soul: How Do You Show Freedom?
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout “For we fight not for glory, nor riches, nor honors, but for freedom alone, which no good man gives up except with his life.” ~ Declaration of Arbroath, 1320. National Museum of Scotland. We are used to seeing ideologically engaged works in modern art museums. Twenty-first-century artists often…
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Food for the Soul: Global Trade Part 2 – Out of Africa
Attributed to Abraham Cresques. Malian King Mansa Musa Trading for Gold in Western Sahara (detail). Catalan Atlas (1375). Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
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Food for the Soul: Global Trade Part 2 – Out of Africa
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout For 15th-century Europeans, sub-Saharan Africa was to a great extent terra incognita until Portuguese explorers started venturing further and further south along the continent’s western coast. These expeditions culminated in 1497 with Vasco da Gama’s voyage all the way down to the Cape of Good Hope and on…
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Food for the Soul: Global Trade in Art – Part 1
Georges de La Tour. The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds (1635). The Louvre. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
There are bigger world problems than this, but you may ha…
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Food for the Soul: Global Trade in Art – Part 1
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout There are bigger world problems than this, but you may have noticed that your favorite sheets are not in stock at Ikea—it is the global trade disruption, compliments of the pandemic. As “out of stock” notices affect our ability to obtain our favorite snacks, shoes, a sofa or…
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Food for the Soul: Oscar Movie Season
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
The Oscar season in Hollywood is like the Baltic sea after a storm, when crumbs of precious amber are churned up to the surface. Various movies that would perha…
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Food for the Soul: Oscar movie season
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The Oscar season in Hollywood is like the Baltic sea after a storm, when crumbs of precious amber are churned up to the surface. Various movies that would perhaps go unnoticed at any other time are being re-released and submitted by their producers. That’s how you can discover…
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Food for the Soul: Art and Cautionary Tales
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Art serves many social purposes, such as creating a magic ritual, preserving memories, announcing praise or condemnation, revising history, and (obviously) providing esthetic enjoyment. It’s no wonder, then, that art has also been used to warn people of the potential consequences of their actions. The British Museum houses…
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Food for the Soul: Good Versus Evil in Art
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” ~ Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes (1911) By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The struggle between the forces of good and evil lies at the root of all religions. In India, one of the most…
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Food for the Soul: The Neglected Art of Pastels – Rosalba Carriera – Women & Art Series 15
Rosalba Carriera. Self portrait as “Winter” (1731). State Art Museum, Dresden. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
There are some languages, like German, Polish, and …
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Food for the Soul: The Neglected Art of Pastels – Rosalba Carriera – Women & Art Series 15
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout There are some languages, like German, Polish, and Latin, that have many grammatical cases (so-called declensions) and three genders. You must know exactly what you are going to say before you say your sentence, or it will never come out right. You cannot change your mind halfway. Painting…
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Protest in Art
Poster for the Suffragette movement. Mary Lowndes (1909). Published by Brighton and Hove Women’s Franchise. Artists’ Suffrage League. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout If an individual stands up to bullies or resists violence, it is called personal courage. When a group does it, it is often called a…
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Food for the Soul: Isabella Stewart Gardner – Women & Art Series 14
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout March 18, 1990 was the St. Patrick’s Day holiday in Boston. The streets were full of revelers, and the police had their hands full with traffic control. Two mustachioed policemen who knocked on the doors of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Fenway Street were readily admitted by…
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Food for the Soul: Isabella Stewart Gardner – Women & Art Series 14
Andres Zorn. Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice (1894). Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
March 18, 1990 was the St. Patric…
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Food for the Soul: Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Aerial shot of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. ©Academy Museum Foundation By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout It took years of false starts, changes of leadership, delayed construction, and other birthing pains, but it is finally here—a museum devoted to the craft, art, and history of moviemaking. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures…
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Food for the Soul Audio: Traveling…While Streaming
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Food for the Soul: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney – Women & Art Series 13
Robert Henri. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1916. Oil on canvas. Whitney Museum of American Art. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout In a press release issued in 1930, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney announced that she was launching a museum of American art because “…not only can the visiting foreigner find no adequate presentation…
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Food for the Soul: Dune
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
Frank Herbert’s novel Dune was published in 1965, and ever since, entire generations of people all over the world have read the book even if they were not …
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Food for the Soul: Dune
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Frank Herbert’s novel Dune was published in 1965, and ever since, entire generations of people all over the world have read the book even if they were not ardent sci-fi fans. Some of them may have even seen the deeply flawed 1984 film adaptation directed by David Lynch…
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Food for the Soul: “The Morozov Collection: Icons of Modern Art” exhibition in Paris
Valentin Serov. Portrait of the Collector of Modern Russian and French Paintings, Ivan Abramovich Morozov (1910). The State Tretiakov National Gallery, Moscow. © Tretiakov National Gallery, Moscow
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Food for the Soul: “The Morozov Collection: Icons of Modern Art” exhibition in Paris
Valentin Serov. Portrait of the Collector of Modern Russian and French Paintings, Ivan Abramovich Morozov (1910). The State Tretiakov National Gallery, Moscow. © Tretiakov National Gallery, Moscow By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Paris is still the art center of the world. This notion was reinforced this year by a unique and massive exhibition…
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Food for the Soul – The Lust for Travel
James Tissot. Ball on Shipboard (1874). Tate Britain. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
While we may be upset by the various pandemic travel restrictions the world i…
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Food for the Soul – Georgia O’Keeffe: Women & Art Series 12
Georgia O’Keeffe. Pelvis with the distance (1943). Indianapolis Museum of Art, Newfields, IN. © Indianapolis Museum of Art/Gift of Anne Marmon Greenleaf in memory of Caroline M. Fesler. Photo: Br…
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Food for the Soul – Georgia O’Keeffe: Women & Art Series 12
Georgia O’Keeffe. Pelvis with the distance, 1943. Oil on canvas. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Newfields, IN. © Indianapolis Museum of Art/Gift of Anne Marmon Greenleaf in memory of Caroline M. Fesler. Photo: Bridgeman Images © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/Adagp, Paris, 2021, courtesy of Centre Pompidou “I’ll paint what I see – what the flower is to…
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Food for the Soul Audio: Florence
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Food for the Soul: A Postcard from Paris
Damian Hirst. The Triumph of Death Blossom (2018). Private collection© Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2021. Photographed by Prudence Cuming Associates. Photo: Courtesy Fonda…
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Food for the Soul: A Postcard from Paris
Damian Hirst. The Triumph of Death Blossom (2018). Private collection© Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2021. Photographed by Prudence Cuming Associates. Photo: Courtesy Fondation Cartier By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout September saw Parisians mostly spending their weekends out in the streets. Some of them (an estimated 17,000) were attending…
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Food for the Soul – Discreet Charm of Kitchen Gardens
Gardeners (Les Jardiniers). Gustave Caillebotte. 1875-1877. Private collection. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Until about the end of WWII, if you lived in a house or at least in a ground-floor apartment, chances were that you had some sort of kitchen garden space. If you were lucky enough…
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Food for the Soul – Discreet Charm of Kitchen Gardens
Gardeners (Les Jardiniers). Gustave Caillebotte. 1875-1877. Private collection. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain.
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
Until about the end of WWII, if you li…
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Food for the Soul: Artists and the Moneychangers
Christ Driving Moneylenders from the Temple. Church of St. Aignan (1899). Chartres, France. Photo: Reinhardhauke Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout If you need to impart important messages to people who cannot read, then your choices include talking to them directly or showing them pictures—preferably images rendered in long-lasting materials such as…
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Food for the Soul: Artists and the Moneychangers
Christ Driving Moneylenders from the Temple. Church of St. Aignan (1899). Chartres, France. Photo: Reinhardhauke Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
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Food for the Soul: Cerca Trova in Florence
Florence cathedral. Photo: Nina Heyn By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout In 1504, when Leonardo da Vinci was mostly done with living in Florence, he accepted an important commission to decorate Palazzo Vecchio (which served as the meeting hall for the Florentine Grand Council) with a fresco depicting the historic Battle of Anghiari fought…
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Food for the Soul: Cerca Trova in Florence
Florence cathedral. Photo: Nina Heyn
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
In 1504, when Leonardo da Vinci was mostly done with living in Florence, he accepted an important commission to decorate …
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Food for the Soul: Magdalena Abakanowicz – Women & Art Series 11
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
“Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine”. ~ Magdalena Abakanowicz
In 1962, a…
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Food for the Soul: Magdalena Abakanowicz – Women & Art Series 11
Magdalena Abakanowicz. Abakan Orange, 1971. Sisal. Jankilevitsch Collection. Photo: Marcin Koniak/Desa Unicum, Courtesy of National Museum Poznań By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout “Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.” ~ Magdalena Abakanowicz In 1962, a young woman…
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Food for the Soul: Kraków, the City of Art
Rembrandt. Landscape with the Good Samaritan (1638). The Princes Czartoryski Collection, National Museum, Kraków. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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Europe has many …
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Food for the Soul: Kraków, the City of Art
Rembrandt. Landscape with the Good Samaritan (1638). The Princes Czartoryski Collection, National Museum, Kraków. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Europe has many places that are a perfect combination of art and history. One city that possesses this ideal combination in spades, but is less visited than it deserves, is Kraków…
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Food for the Soul: Rosa Bonheur – Women & Art Series 10
Édouard Louis Dubufe. Portrait of Rosa Bonheur (the bull was painted by Bonheur) (1857). Versailles Palace. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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Food for the Soul: Rosa Bonheur – Women & Art Series 10
Edouard Louis Dubufe. Portrait of Rosa Bonheur (the bull was painted by Bonheur), 1857. Oil on canvas. Versailles Palace. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout There is a reason why the traditionally dressed Victorian lady in the portrait above is resting her hand on a bull instead of a chair or…
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Food for the Soul – New York Big Five – MoMA
Marc Chagal I and the Village (1911). MoMA. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the world’s largest contemporary and mo…
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Food for the Soul – New York Big Five – MoMA
Marc Chagall. I and the Village (1911). MoMA. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the world’s largest contemporary and modern art assemblage, has been in the avant-garde of modern art collecting for almost a century. Founded in 1929 by three enterprising society…
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Food for the Soul Audio: Going to New York Museums
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Food for the Soul: New York Big Five – The Frick
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres – Portrait de Comtesse D’Haussonville (1845). The Frick Collection, New York. Photo: ©The Frick Collection, Wikimedia Commons
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Food for the Soul: New York Big Five – The Frick
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres – Portrait de Comtesse D’Haussonville (1845). The Frick Collection, New York. Photo: ©The Frick Collection, Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout So many people love the experience of visiting New York. I don’t. I’m overwhelmed by the stone jungle of office towers and the incessant noise of construction, police sirens,…
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Food for the Soul: Barbara Hepworth – Women Artists Series 9
Barbara Hepworth. Sphere with Inner Form (1963). Barbara Hepworth Museum, St. Ives, UK. Photo: image (c)2003 Graham Rogers at Wikipedia Commons
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
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Food for the Soul: Barbara Hepworth – Women Artists Series 9
Barbara Hepworth. Sphere with Inner Form, 1963. Bronze. Barbara Hepworth Museum, St. Ives, UK. Photo: image (c)2003 Graham Rogers at Wikipedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Imagine that you are a mother of a four-year-old boy as well as newborn, underweight triplets. You are living in a damp, badly heated basement in…
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Food for the Soul – Julie Mehretu – Women & Art Series 8
Julie Mehretu. Stadia II (2004). Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg; gift of Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and Nicolas Rohatyn and A.W. Mellon Acquisition Endowment Fund 2004.50. Photo: Courtesy the Carne…
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Food for the Soul – Julie Mehretu – Women & Art Series 8
Julie Mehretu. Stadia II (2004). Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg; gift of Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and Nicolas Rohatyn and A.W. Mellon Acquisition Endowment Fund 2004.50. Photo: Courtesy the Carnegie Museum via the Whitney. © Julie Mehretu By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The joint exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art and Los…
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Food for the Soul: Gustave Caillebotte – The Unappreciated Impressionist
Gustave Caillebotte. Paris Street, the Rainy Day (Rue de Paris, temps du pluie). 1877. Art Institute of Chicago. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain.
Impressionism owes a huge debt to Gusta…
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Food for the Soul: Gustave Caillebotte – The Unappreciated Impressionist
Gustave Caillebotte. Paris Street, the Rainy Day (Rue de Paris, Temps du Pluie ), 1877. Oil on canvas. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Impressionism owes a huge debt to Gustave Caillebotte but hardly anyone today knows his name. By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout Musée D’Orsay is one of the most…
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Food for the Soul: Good Versus Evil in Art
Statue of St. Michael. 1750. University of Bonn. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons
“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedn…
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Food for the Soul: Cautionary Tales
Allegory of Tulip Mania. Jan Breughel the Younger (after 1637). Private collection. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
Art serves many social purpo…
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Food for the Soul – Money on Canvas
The Payment of Dues. Georges de la Tour, 1630-35. Lviv Art Gallery, Ukraine (until 1940 – Lwów Art Gallery, Poland), ex Lubomirski collection. Photo: Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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Food for the Soul: California Reopenings. Back to Museums Series 2
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
California is one of the last states in the U.S. to have post-Covid-19 openings of entertainment and art venues, with many cultural events (such as the annual ou…
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Food for the Soul: California Reopenings. Back to Museums Part 2
Serge Attukwei Clottey. The Wishing Well. 2021 installation at James O. Jessie Desert Highland Unity Center in Palm Springs. Photo: Nina Heyn. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout California is one of the last states in the U.S. to have post-Covid-19 openings of entertainment and art venues, with many cultural events (such as the…
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Food for the Soul: Calder-Picasso. Back to Museums Series 1
In the center: Alexander Calder. Untitled (mobile-1956) and Untitled (painting-1967). Calder Foundation New York. Photo: Installation view of “Calder-Picasso” at the de Young Museum, photography…
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Food for the Soul: Calder-Picasso. Back to Museums Part 1
In the center: Alexander Calder. Untitled (mobile-1956) and Untitled (painting-1967). Calder Foundation New York. Photo: Installation view of “Calder-Picasso” at the de Young Museum, photography by Gary Sexton. © 2021 Calder Foundation New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Image provided courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. By Nina Heyn – Your…
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Food for the Soul – Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Women Artists Series 7
Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun. Self-Portrait (1791). National Trust, Ickworth House, UK. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
When we think of the French upper classes jus…
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Food for the Soul – Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Women Artists Series 7
Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun. Self-Portrait, 1791. Oil on canvas. National Trust, Ickworth House, UK. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout When we think of the French upper classes just before the French Revolution, what comes to mind are those impossible panniered gowns, powdered wigs, rouged cheeks, and ostrich feathers. Which is…
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Food for the Soul: Olga Boznańska – Women Artists Series 6
Olga Boznańska – Self-Portrait (1908). National Museum, Warsaw. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
Even casual museumgoers are familiar with such female artists as …
