Month: January 2016
Arts & Foods, Milano – part 1
Before we go any further into Venice and the Biennale, let’s come back to Milan for a bit of applied arts. Arts & Foods. Rituals since 1851 is an exhibition curated by Germano Celant, held at the Palazzo di Triennale in Milan from April 9 to November 1, 2015. It was a World Expo “pavilion”…
Grand Canal, Venice, part 2
This is part 2 of 5 of the Grand Canal series where we share photos taken on our vaporetto rides on the canal. For Part 1, click here. Music … One end of the canal starts near Piazza San Marco and the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute (one with the domes, see photo below). The photo…
Grand Canal, Venice, part 1
This is the first of a series of five posts about Venice’s canals. We came here to see La Biennale; there is another series of posts about the exhibition, to start on that series click here and here. Have some music to go with the post … Canal Grande or the Grand Canal is the…
Ending up at Bácaro Jazz in Venice
This was our first day in Venice. Sis had a business trip in Europe so Sue and I(Chris) thought it would be great if we spend a few days in Venice together, taking in a bit of art at the Biennale. The plan was to meet at the Milano Centrale train station and take the Frecciabianca express…