Food for the Soul: De Young Museum Part 1 – Gauguin
“There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.” Paul Gauguin
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
By all accounts Pau…
Food for the Soul – Binge on History
“Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” Winston Churchill, paraphrasing George Santayana
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
Long winter nights are just perfec…
Food for the Soul: The Year of da Vinci
“Ars longa, vita brevis. Art is long, life is short”- Hippocrates
“Life, if well spent, is long” – Leonardo da Vinci
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Imagine a designer whose te…
Food For the Soul: Oscar Treasures in Black and White
“It shouldn’t work. It shouldn’t be magic. You shouldn’t weep happy and then sad and then happy again. But you do. And I do. And we all do.” ― Ray Bradbury, The Cat’s Pajamas
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Food For the Soul: At The Movies … At Other Countries
“If someone has to commit a crime in order to survive, society must take a look at itself and ask who the guilty ones really are.” Dr. Chen Zuo Bing, director of Kangfu Medical Center at Beijing U…
Food for the Soul: Trapped Queens
Sir William Cecil: You must confront the truth, madam. She has a claim to your throne.
Queen Elizabeth I: You would have me depose a sister monarch.
Sir William Cecil: It is either civil war there, …
Food for the Soul: The Oscar Race Has Started
“I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend.” ~Freddie Mercury – front man of Queen
By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout
Every autumn, various big, showpiece movies that start popping up in cinema…
Food for the Soul: MAGRITTE – known and unknown
“In opposition to the general pessimism, I set the search for joy, for pleasure.” René Magritte
By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout
The Belgian artist René Magritte made his name as a surrealis…
Food For the Soul: Fondation Louis Vuitton
“I think people care. If not, why so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to see the Parthenon, to Chartres, the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao… Something…
Food For the Soul: Venice
“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one go.” ~ Truman Capote
By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout
May be there aren’t exactly “One Hundred Places You Need to Visit Befo…
Food for the Soul: Crazy Rich Asians
“Rachel Chu: So your family is rich?
Nick Young: We’re comfortable.
Rachel Chu: That is exactly what a super-rich person would say.”
~ Dialog from the movie Crazy Rich Asians
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Food for the Soul: Dark Money
“Campaign finance is the gateway to every other issue you might care about – whether it be education or tax reform or foreign policy.” Ann M. Ravel, former chairwoman of the Federal Election Commissio…
Food for the Soul: Brain Not Brawn – Women In Action
“Debbie Ocean: How long would it take you to make seven pieces of jewelry?
Amita: Five or six hours.
Debbie Ocean: How long if I told you you didn’t have to live with your mother anymore?
Am…
Food for the Soul: Museum BRANLY
“If Jacques Chirac is so interested in non-European art it’s largely because the 20th century discovered the quality, scope and significance of these cultures after having dominated and scorned th…
Food For The Soul: Following Claude Monet
“Apart from painting and gardening, I’m good for nothing. My greatest masterpiece is my garden.” Claude Monet
By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout
It goes without saying that you can literall…
Food For The Soul: Museum POLIN
“Who is this museum for? …For everybody- to give a chance to meet Jewish community that gave the world great thinkers, leaders, scientists, writers, musicians and painters.”
Marian Turski – jo…
Food For The Soul: Amber
“The man was an expert in deceit, and he came to my father’s house bringing a necklace strung with gold and amber beads. While my dear mother and her maids examined and handled it, haggling over the p…
Food For The Soul: Cannes Film Festival
“So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?”
Christina Aguilera
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By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout
Every May since 1946, the most famous and the most prestigi…
Food For The Soul: “Beirut”
“ – 2000 years of revenge, vendetta, murder… -Welcome to Beirut”
A dialog in the movie Beirut
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In the olden days of cinema, circa last …
Food For The Soul: Ancient Egypt
“For the moment – an eternity it must have seemed to the others standing by – I was struck dumb with amazement, and when Lord Carnarvon, unable to stand the suspense any longer, inquired anxiously, …
Food For The Soul: Abacus – Small Enough To Jail
”(The US Banks issued 4.8 trillion in fraudulent mortgages and toxic loans) … but they could not bring them trial because of the institutions were so large and so internationally connected that in…
Food For The Soul: Immersive Museums
“BioDesign Studio is an experience like no other. This is a space where visitors of all ages can gain a deep understanding of their own power to use synthetic biology to solve big problems, like foo…
Food For The Soul: The Blacklist
“So the Federal Government has armed a cyber terrorist with a digital equivalent of a nuclear warfare. Another fabulous example of your tax dollar at work.”
THE BLACKLIST TV show
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Food For The Soul: Call Me By Your Name
“How you live your life is your business, just remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. And before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a poi…
Food For The Soul: Portraits and Selfies
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray By…
Food For The Soul: Portraits and Selfies
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather …
Food For The Soul: Museums in San Francisco
“I believe that art can create the power and energy of happiness,” artist Hung Yi. By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout As you probably know, apart from gorgeous views, overpriced real estate and great restaurants, San Francisco is famous for its outstanding museums that rival the New York ones. Here are three of them to…
Food For The Soul: Museums in San Francisco
“I believe that art can create the power and energy of happiness,” artist Hung Yi.
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As you probably know, apart from gorgeous views, overp…
Food For The Soul: The Post and Darkest Hour
“Ben Bradlee: If we don’t hold them accountable, who will?
Kay Graham: We can’t hold them accountable if we don’t have a newspaper.” Dialogue from the THE POST
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Food for the Soul: Movies to Make You Feel Good
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By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout
Reading news in the morning and then political or financial commentaries in the afternoon can effectively keep you depressed all day long. So, to…
Food for the Soul: SKY LADDER, Da Vinci and collecting modern art
“Even the most art-averse cynic will recognize the blood, sweat and tears that went in to creating this strange and beautiful experience.” – Jordan Hoffman, reviewing Sky Ladder in The Guardian
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Food for the Soul: Sky Ladder, da Vinci, and Collecting Modern Art
“Even the most art-averse cynic will recognize the blood, sweat and tears that went in to creating this strange and beautiful experience.” ~ Jordan Hoffman, reviewing Sky Ladder in The Guardian By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout In the 21st century, serious collectors have significantly turned away from old masters and impressionism towards modern art….
Food for the Soul: Sky Ladder, da Vinci, and Collecting Modern Art
“Even the most art-averse cynic will recognize the blood, sweat and tears that went in to creating this strange and beautiful experience.” ~ Jordan Hoffman, reviewing Sky Ladder in The Guardian
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Food for the Soul: Geostorm
“Thanks to a system of satellites, natural disasters have become a thing of the past. We can control our weather.”
~ President Palma in Geostorm
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Food for the Soul: Blade Runner 2049
“Every civilization was built on the back of a disposable workforce, but I can only make so many.“
Wallace – a creator of replicants in Blade Runner 2049
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Food for the Soul: Pacific Standard Time LA/LA
“In a way that is possible only in Los Angeles, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA will implicitly raise complex and provocative issues about present-day relations throughout the Americas and the rapidly …
Food for The Soul: British TV Miniseries
“In a few days, there’s going to be this international colloquium. And this place’ll be crawling with rich and powerful people, the world’s leading business people and politicians. – What, four days…
Food for the Soul: Wolf Warrior 2
“May be people have kept their patriotism buried for too long“ ~Wu Jing in a press interview
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Wolf Warrior 2 is tearing right now through cin…
Food for the Soul: Da Vinci and Salt
“A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.” Leonardo Da Vinci
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What does Leonardo da Vinci have to do with salt? Quite a lot if …
Food for the Soul: Da Vinci and Salt
“A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.” Leonardo Da Vinci By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout What does Leonardo da Vinci have to do with salt? Quite a lot if you are in the city of Cracow. If you have already crossed Paris and Venice off your travel list and you…
Food for the Soul: Valerian or Why Hollywood is Hard to Beat
“My stress comes from the people who try to not let me do what I want to do. That’s probably why it happens that I’ve worked a few times with a studio, but never for a studio.” ~Luc Besson in …
Food for the Soul: Valerian or Why Hollywood is Hard to Beat
“My stress comes from the people who try to not let me do what I want to do. That’s probably why it happens that I’ve worked a few times with a studio, but never for a studio.” ~Luc Besson in Deadline interview July 17, 2017 By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout Summer is the time…
Food for the Soul: 13 Minutes & Dunkirk
Check it out! By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout Today, a couple of very different movies about Second World War and how actions of individual, anonymous people could change some big historical events. 13 Minutes is a German movie (subtitles and real German actors, no Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise in sight) and as such…
Food for the Soul: Generation Wealth Exhibition
“When the financial crash happened in 2008, I realized that the stories that I have been telling since the early 90’s about consumerism and about materialism and how that had become part of the American Dream- that they were all connected.” ~ Lauren Greenfield Generation Wealth Exhibition: https://www.annenbergphotospace.org/exhibits/generation-wealth-lauren-greenfield By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout Lauren…
Food for the Soul: “Jack Strong”
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“Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any numbe…
Food for the Soul: “Jack Strong”
Food for the Soul Series Check it out: Jack Strong: Movie to Rent “Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.” ~Zbigniew Brzezinski – Polish born US National Security Adviser during…
Food for the Soul: The Luncheon of the Boating Party
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The Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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“To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, c…
Food for the Soul: The Luncheon of the Boating Party
Food for the Soul Series Check it out: The Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-Auguste Renoir By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout “To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes, pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.”…
Food for the Soul: “The Circle”
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Free & Inspired in Mississippi
ANNOUNCEMENT: I have just learned that Dr. Perry and his wife Kim were killed in a plane crash this past weekend {August 14, 2016) with two other couples as they returned from a dental conference in…