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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
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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…
"Science is leading us forward in our evolution in the area of spiritual consciousness, in a sense. They're leading us to a final realization, through validation, of what spiritual mas…
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Ends: February 11,2021
Heavenly branch: Metal Rat
Chinese New Year (or generally referred to as Lunar New Year globally) is the Chinese festival that celebrates…
"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…
“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…
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 recommendatio…
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…
“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…
“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…
“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. ÅaÅ„cut, 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, 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 500 years on, we still see news stories about da Vinci in daily press. There was one recently…
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…
“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…
Notre Dame Cathedral, empty for Christmas, may never recover from devastating fire
USA Today | 26 December 2019
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King George V: “Were you affected by the strikes?â€The Dowager Countess: “My maid was rather curt with me. She’s a communist at heart.â€~ From the movie Downton Abbey
By Nina Heyn …
“-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…
The Heritage Foundation | 04 April 2019
New research probes eviction’s causes and consequences
The Economist | 24 August 2019
The Forest Man Of India: At Jadav Payeng, This is a story of …
“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 compareâ€- 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…
“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…
No man is an island,Entire of itself.Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if …
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MICHAEL LINTON – Franchetti S…
“Leonardo is the perfect symbol both of the Renaissance and the modern man: complete, versatile, creative and future orientedâ€- Dr. Claudio Salsi, Director of Conservation of the Sforza Castle, Mi…
Gates launches lobbying arm – higher education on agenda
The Conversation | 28 June 2019
A bridge made of grass
BBC | 17 June 2019
Pavillion Theater | 04 June 2019
Football coach without …
By Catherine Austin Fitts
On the third day of the Hang in Stavoren – 2019, we visited Leeuwarden, the capital of Friesland.
The first stop was a surprise. We visited the organ at Grote Ker…
“What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?â€

— Henry David Thoreau
By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout
The movie The Wandering Earth has already…
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” Claude Monet
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
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“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…
Alexa Pulitzer A Guide to New Orleans
Alexa Pulitzer | 19 February 2018
“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…
“Ars longa, vita brevis. Art is long, life is shortâ€- Hippocrates
“Life, if well spent, is long†– Leonardo da Vinci
By Nina Heyn -Your Culture Scout
Imagine a designer whose te…
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Study: America unhappiest it’s been
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“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…
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, …
“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…
Third Of Americans Considering Leaving US To Live Abroad, Study Finds
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My Yearbook Accuses Me Of “Taking People’s Life Savings”: What Does Your Say?
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Oakland Church Steps Out On Faith And Pledges To Stop Calling Police
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After 25 years of being homeless, I learned there’s one simple thing you can do to help( Out of the Fore…
“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…
“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…
A forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago today
LA Times | 16 March 2018 ​
This Gold Guy Managed $40 Billion at BlackRock — but Quit to Run a Farm Instead
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When You Leave the Farm, Your Mind Is Free
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Traditional Depictions of Mothers to be Banned in Adverts From Next Year Amid Ongoing War On ‘Gender Stereotypes’
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Berlin Exhibition Questions CIA’s Influence on Global Art Scene
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Mattis Shows How to Handle a Reporter’s Question About His Religious Beliefs…
“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….
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“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…
‘Destroy Christians’ Hate Imam Claimed Swiss Social Benefits for 13yrs – Investigator to RT
RT | 26 August 2017
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California Catholic School Removes Statues of Jesus, Mary t…
Local: Buying a $500 House in Detroit: Bidding on the Soul of My City
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Americans are Rapidly Descending Into Madness
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Turnaround University: Quant School On The Hudson
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A City Slicker in the Panhandle
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“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…
From the Family of Jim Marrs: Jim Died Today From a Heart Attack
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John DeCamp Remembered as One of Nebraska’s Most A…
Alien Donald Trump appears on Mexico City billboard
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Number of Atheists in Russia Halves in 3 Years – Poll
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Joseph Rago, Wall Street Journal Editorial Writer, Dies at 34
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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…
“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…
Passing of Dr. Michael Coffman
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Big Pig Pharma and the Trans-Gender Movement
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