Inspirational Uplifting Content
Olga Boznańska. Self-Portrait, 1908. Pastel, gouache on cardboard. National Museum, Warsaw. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Even casual museumgoers are familiar with such female artists as Georgia O’Keeffe or Mary Cassatt—celebrated painters whose art is prominently displayed in major Western galleries. Fewer art lovers are familiar with someone like Olga…
Photo credit: jovaughn-stephens/Unsplash photo
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
It’s a sign of the times that documentaries now seem to be more interesting than features. While some feature…
Photo credit: jovaughn-stephens/Unsplash photo By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout It’s a sign of the times that documentaries now seem to be more interesting than features. While some feature movies this year focus on exceptional situations (such as the last man on Earth’s travels to a polar station, or a moment in history from…
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
The 2021 Academy Awards have been moved two months later than usual to April 25, extending the entire awards season to eight long months. Movies are eligibl…
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The 2021 Academy Awards have been moved two months later than usual to April 25, extending the entire awards season to eight long months. Movies are eligible for the 2021 Oscars—as well as numerous other awards (some critics’ organizations, BAFTAs, Golden Globes, etc.)—if released between January 1, 2020…
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Even though practically every major ruler in world history has issued some coinage, just a handful of currencies have gone on to become international standards—used for a long time and widely traded. These include the drachmas of ancient Greece, the Roman Empire’s denari, and a coin called the…
Self-portrait. Hilma af Klint (1862-1944). Date of painting unknown. Hilma af Klint Foundation. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
The fact that painter Hilma af Kl…
Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – the author of the Food for the Soul column and the creator of the Food for the Soul audio.
Please click here for Audio .
Hilma af Klint. Self-Portrait, date of painting unknown. Oil on canvas. Hilma af Klint Foundation. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The fact that painter Hilma af Klint has been unknown in the history of modern art is not that surprising. That even now she remains unknown is a bit more…
The Adoration of the Kings. Jan Gossaert (1510-15). Photo © The National Gallery, London.
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
One of the most artistically alluring Christmas themes is the one…
Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – the author of the Food for the Soul column and the creator of the Food for the Soul audio.
Please click here for Audio
The Adoration of the Kings. Jan Gossaert (1510-15). Photo © The National Gallery, London. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout One of the most artistically alluring Christmas themes is the one known as the Adoration of the Kings. The exotic story of the three rulers of faraway kingdoms, led by a star to Bethlehem…
Book of the City of Ladies. Christine de Pizan (c. 1405). Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
We do not know who was the…
Book of the City of Ladies. Christine de Pizan (c. 1405). Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout We do not know who illustrated the Book of the City of Ladies, but we know the author: Christine de Pizan (or de Pisan). This miniature portrays her as…
Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – the author of the Food for the Soul column and the creator of the Food for the Soul audio.
Please click here for Audio .
Jewish Woman with Oranges. Alexander Gierymski (1881). National Museum Warsaw. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout There is nothing attractive about toil—this mind-numbing effort of farming or doing some menial, repetitive tasks—to the person who is doing it. It can however, be appealing to artists as a subject, especially if such…
Jewish Woman with Oranges. Alexander Gierymski (1881). National Museum Warsaw. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
There is nothing attractive about toil—this mind-…
Land Girls Hoeing. Manly Edward MacDonald (1918-19). Canada War Museum. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Women have not always been stuck at home just sewing and running households. They have also been out in the fields as farmers or trading in the markets as merchants. Industrialization brought women into cities,…
Land Girls Hoeing. Manly Edward MacDonald (1918-19). Canada War Museum. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
Women have not always been stuck at home just sewing and ru…
Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – the author of the Food for the Soul column and the creator of the Food for the Soul audio.
Please click here for Audio.
A Young Woman Sewing. Nicolaes Maes (1655). Harold Samuel Collection, © City of London Corporation, London. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
This is the second par…
Part A Young Woman Sewing. Nicolaes Maes (1655). Harold Samuel Collection, © City of London Corporation, London. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout This is the second part in our series on women at work—this time captured in their most accessible milieu—working at home. The tasks depicted may be some of…
Birth of the Virgin. Domenico Ghirlandaio (1479-85). Santa Maria Novella, Florence. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
The majority of figures in paint…
Birth of the Virgin. Domenico Ghirlandaio (1479-85). Santa Maria Novella, Florence. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The majority of figures in paintings, especially those created before the 20th century, are male. The paintings show men heroically fighting or representing religious or mythological figures, men hunting, or men suffering…
“Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence…
Effects of Good Government in the City. Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1339). Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
The United Stat…
Effects of Good Government in the City. Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1339). Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The United States is preparing for the November 3rd presidential election amid the most polarized debate in living memory about what is right and wrong and what kind of…
Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – the author of the Food for the Soul column and the creator of the Food for the Soul podcast.
Please click here for Audio.
What we did with Inception for the heist genre is what Tenet attempts to bring to the spy movie genre – director Christopher Nolan
Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – the author of the Food for t…
What we did with Inception for the heist genre is what Tenet attempts to bring to the spy movie genre – director Christopher Nolan By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Tenet was supposed to be a Warner Bros. blockbuster for one of the hot mid-July weekends you might spend in a shopping mall cooling…
Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – the author of the Food for the Soul column and the creator of the Food for the Soul podcast.
Please click here for Audio.
Articles:
Lost Masterpieces. Part …
Strange Garden (Dziwny Ogród). Józef Mehoffer (1903). National Museum, Warsaw. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons.
Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout - the auth…
Strange Garden (Dziwny Ogród). Józef Mehoffer (1903). National Museum, Warsaw. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout There are very few advantages of a global lockdown other than decreased pollution, but perhaps one of them is our renewed appreciation of gardens. A lot of us have favorite gardens. It might…
Boxer of the Quirinale. C. 330-50 BC. Palazzo Massimo alla Terme. Rome. Photo credit: Nina Heyn. In the history of art, any recovery of a lost masterpiece is a happy event, but such events are more rare than an art loss. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Sometimes, there is hope for a lost…
Boxer of the Quirinale. C. 330-50 BC. Palazzo Massimo alla Terme. Rome.
Photo credit: Nina Heyn.
In the history of art, any recovery of a lost masterpiece is a happy event, but such events are …
Rembrandt van Rijn. The Storm on the Sea of Galilee. 1633. Stolen in 1990 from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Boston. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons
Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – t…
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee. Rembrandt van Rijn (1633). Stolen in 1990 from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Boston. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Since antiquity, artworks have been the first thing to be looted. By the turn of the 19th century, the collection of war trophies…
The Stonebreakers. Gustave Courbet (1849). Dresden Gemäldegallerie. Destroyed in 1945 during an air raid. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons
Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – the author …
The Stonebreakers. Gustave Courbet (1849). Dresden Gemäldegallerie. Destroyed in 1945 during an air raid. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Art gets lost, stolen, or destroyed all the time. Thousands of works have been destroyed by fires and wars or simply by someone changing their mind, like Rockefeller being…
Gustav Klimt. Beethoven Frieze (detail). Vienna. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth date is unknown but his baptism, that most likely took place no later than a day later, has been recorded as December 17, 1770. This year, therefore, it is a round 250 year…
Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – the author of the Food for the Soul column and the creator of the Food for the Soul podcast.
Please click here for Article.
Please click here for Audio.
Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – the author of the Food for the Soul column.
To view the post please click here .
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout A lot of us are still stuck at home, often unable to travel or work. To alleviate boredom, many media outlets recommend shows to watch, but these recommendations usually focus on American TV shows. So, here is a different list. Instead of watching traditonal U.S. cop shows, full…
Martiros Saryan. By the well. Hot Day. 1909. Martiros Saryan Museum,Yerevan, Armenia.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain
Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – the author of the Food for the S…
Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – the author of the Food for the Soul column and the creator of the Food for the Soul podcast.
Please click here for the June 18th, 2020 Audio/a>.
Martiros Saryan. By the Well. Hot day, 1909. Martiros Saryan Museum, Yerevan, Armenia. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain “Man’s best friend” has been a friend of artists throughout centuries and esthetic styles. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout As soon as I wrote a story about cats in fine art, dog aficionados felt a…
Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – the author of the Food for the Soul column and the creator of the Food for the Soul podcast.
Please click here for the May 5th, 2020 Audio.
Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – the author of the Food for the Soul column.
To view the post please click here .
Couturier Cat. Tsuguharu Foujita. 1927. Photo: Public Domain Wikiart.org Before there were videos of funny cats on the Internet, for about 4000 years there were simply fun cat paintings. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Long before the entire world got stuck in front of flickering screens all day long, cat videos were the…
Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – the author of the Food for the Soul column.
Her presentation for the 1st Quarter 2020 Wrap Up–“Protest in Art”–has been added to the 1st Quarter 2020 Wrap Up…
By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout Stuck at home together with the rest of the world we should, theoretically, have lots of free time. It turns out however that a lot of this time is taken up by fixing. We fix our kids calculus assignments, even if our last bout with calculus was decades ago,…
Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – the author of the Food for the Soul column.
To view the post please click here.
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 Comm
Our theme f…
Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – the author of the Food for the Soul column and the creator of the Food for the Soul podcast.
Please click here for the April 29th, 2020 Audio.
Artemisia Gentileschi. Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (La Pittura), (about 1638-1639). Oil on canvas. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019. Photo: Courtesy of The National Gallery, London “…with me Your Illustrious Lordship will not lose and you will find the spirit of Caesar in the soul of a woman.”~…
“…with me Your Illustrious Lordship will not lose and you will find the spirit of Caesar in the soul of a woman.”
Artemisia Gentileschi in a letter to her patron Antonio Ruffo in 1649, defendin…
Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – the author of the Food for the Soul column and the creator of the Food for the Soul podcast.
Every year, Nina spends an inordinate amount of time in museums and wa…
Raphael. Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. (1513) The Louvre. Courtesy of Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome April 6, 2020 markes a 500 year anniversary of passing of one the most beloved artists. A huge Raphael exhibition at the Scuderia del Quirinale in Rome could only open in March for few days before the whole of Italy went…
Raphael Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. 1513. The Louvre. Courtesy of Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome
April 6, 2020 marks a 500 years anniversary of passing of one of the most beloved artists. A…
Food for the Soul will now be adding a dedicated mini-site to bring you all the culture stories in one place By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The world has just hunkered down to wait out the virus. Everything has ground to a sudden halt: going to work or school, dining out or seeing…
Food for the Soul will now be adding a dedicated mini-site to bring you all the culture stories in one place
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
The world has just hunkered down to wait out the vi…
An exhibition was planned in San Francisco to showcase Frida Kahlo’s personal life through personal mementos locked up for 50 years in Casa Azul
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
Worldwide we ar…
Sweat and toil of the master who never wanted you to see it
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
Michelangelo Buonarotti. Head of a Child with a Cloak around the Head. Mid-1520’s. Collection and…
Sweat and toil of the master who never wanted you to see it By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Michelangelo Buonarotti. Head of a Child with a Cloak around the Head. Mid-1520’s. Collection and photo credit: Teylers Museum, Haarlem.The Netherlands. Courtesy of the Getty Museum Most of the time, on order to experience Michelangelo’s…
The Ghent Altar or An Adoration of the Mystic Lamb. Inside panels. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
The most stolen artwork ever has been restored to its original glory
By Nina …
The Ghent Altar or An Adoration of the Mystic Lamb. Inside panels. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain. The most stolen artwork ever has been restored to its original glory By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout When brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck started painting panels of a commissioned altar some time in 1420’s…
Streaming gems you possibly missed
Winter usually does not offer many exciting movies other than the awards heavyweights (where your choices are between equally soul-dampening entries of 1917 or ma…
Streaming gems you possibly missed Winter usually does not offer many exciting movies other than the awards heavyweights (where your choices are between equally soul-dampening entries of 1917 or maybe Marriage Story). So… long dark evenings are perfect for some streaming time. Here are some shows that are entertaining, smart, produced around the globe, and…
“In today’s capitalistic society there are ranks and castes that are invisible to the eye. We keep them disguised and out of sight and superficially look down on class hierarchies as a relic of the past, but the reality is that there are class lines that cannot be crossed.” Boon Jong Ho, director of Parasite…
"In today's capitalistic society there are ranks and castes that are invisible to the eye. We keep them disguised and out of sight and superficially look down on class hierarchies as a relic o…
Leonardo da Vinci. Ca.1491. Study for the Sforza monument. Image source: Wikimedia Commons, public domain By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout It was a classic moment of serendipity. Catherine, Robert and I have been filming stories about da Vinci in Milan when we met at a book fair an Italian author, Marco Malvaldi, who…
Leonardo da Vinci. Ca.1491. Study for the Sforza monument. Image source: Wikimedia Commons, public domain
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
It was a classic moment of serendipity. Cat…
Leonardo da Vinci – the Louvre Exhibit with Nina Heyn and Ulrike Granögger. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout To conclude our series on da Vinci – Solari’s “Hero of the Year” – we bring you a podcast. In late 2019 the Louvre opened a historic exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci. Catherine, Ulrike Granögger…
Leonardo da Vinci – the Louvre Exhibit with Nina Heyn and Ulrike Granögger.
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
To conclude our series on da Vinci – Solari’s “Hero of the Year” – we bring y…
By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout For holidays, we bring our 12 Christmas Movie Gifts – as diverse as a partridge in a pear tree and maids a milking would be. The only criteria for a recommendation were that movies had to be entertaining (a value much neglected in a majority of films) and a…
By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout
For holidays, we bring our 12 Christmas Movie Gifts – as diverse as a partridge in a pear tree and maids a milking would be. The only criteria for a recommendatio…
“Lawyer: Ready to go to war?” Gretchen Carlson: Oh, yeah” – lines from the movie Bombshell By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout Charlize Theron is not only a film star (Oscar for her portrayal of a serial killer in The Monster, accolades for her role as Imperator Furiosa from Mad Max: Fury Road) – she…
“Lawyer: Ready to go to war?”
Gretchen Carlson: Oh, yeah”
– lines from the movie Bombshell
By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout
Charlize Theron is not only a film star (Oscar for her portrayal of…
“Ransom Drysdale: What is this? CSI: KFC?”
A line from Knives Out!
By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout
Our streaming devices are groaning under the weight of choices – movies, seasons of shows, m…
Sofonisba Anguissola. Self-Portrait at the Easel. 1556-57. Muzeum-Zamek. Łańcut, Poland. Photo credit: Courtesy of the © Prado National Museum, Madrid, Spain.
“Her paintings were celebrate…
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need”.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout
A typical museum of fine art is a depository of paintings,…
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need”. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout A typical museum of fine art is a depository of paintings, drawings and sculptures, sometimes objects of historical value, writings or artifacts (think the MET or the Tate). They fulfill the…
A good painter has two things to represent: the man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard.” — Leonardo da Vinci
By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout
It is amazing that…
A good painter has two things to represent: the man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard.” — Leonardo da Vinci By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout It is amazing that 500 years on, we still see news stories about da Vinci in daily press. There was one recently…
“Think of this as a fairytale that actually happened.”
A line from the movie The Laundromat
By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout
How do you turn a dense literary account of financial (mal)practice…
King George V: “Were you effected by the strikes?”
The Dowager Countess: “My maid was rather curt with me. She’s a communist at heart.”
From the movie Downton Abbey
By Nina Heyn – Y…
“-David, we have a celebrity here! This Arab writes “Tel Aviv on Fire.” Do you watch it?
-Once. It’s anti-Semitic.
-With a name like that, did you expect a Zionist show?”
Dialogue from the comedy “…
“Everybody’s got a hunger, a hunger they can’t resist;
There’s so much that you want, you deserve much more than this.”
Bruce Springsteen “Prove It All Night”
By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scou…
Portrait of Berthe Morisot by her sister Edma Morisot. 1865. Photo credit: Wikimedia commons.
“I do not think any man would ever treat a woman as his equal, and it is all I ask because I know my …
“Our goal is to invite the public to walk to the heart of the artwork.”
Gianfranco Iannuzzi, artistic director and co-director of the exhibition “Van Gogh, Starry Night”
By Nina Heyn- Your Cultur…
Caravaggio. Narcissus. Ca. 1599. Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica di Palazzo Barbierini.
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain.
“There was art before him and art after him, and they were…
As part of Solari’s ongoing celebration of the year of da Vinci, we visited Milan and met with one of the city natives. Paola Jacobbi is a very respected Italian culture and entertainment journali…
“When future generations look back to my time, it will probably be similar to how I now think of the past.” Wang Yi Zhi, famous Chinese calligrapher 303-361 AD
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout…
“I have seen so many gems I did not expect to see in one place. No Venetian or papal collection can compare”- a papal envoy praising in 1560 a treasury collection of the Polish king Sigismund Augu…
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
If you are a city school kid in Europe, no matter if attending an elementary or a high school, your class will be going to museums a lot. There will be field trips…
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” – Upton Sinclair
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
Living in the past, for instance…
Solari Hero of the Year
Leonardo da Vinci is the Solari Hero of the Year for 2019. On May 2, 2019, we celebrate the 500th anniversary of his passing.
From Wikipedia:
Leonardo di ser Piero da…
“How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.” Le…
“If you pay attention, nothing in nature stays the same for a single moment: You can’t be bored of nature, can you? Well, sometimes I’ll steal something from Van Gogh. I mean I do. Good artists …
“There’s a drawing by Rembrandt, I think it’s the greatest drawing ever done. It’s in the British Museum and it’s of a family teaching a child to walk, so it’s a universal thing, everybody has exper…
Our mission is to help you live a free and inspired life. This includes building wealth in ways that build real wealth in the wider economy. We believe that personal and family wealth is a critical ingredient of both individual freedom and community, health and well-being.
Nothing on The Solari Report should be taken as individual investment, legal, or medical advice. Anyone seeking investment, legal, medical, or other professional advice for his or her personal situation is advised to seek out a qualified advisor or advisors and provide as much information as possible to the advisor in order that such advisor can take into account all relevant circumstances, objectives, and risks before rendering an opinion as to the appropriate strategy.
Be the first to know about new articles, series and events.
No products in the cart.
