Category: museums
-
Emmigrating to China
This is an old blogpost that was written before I left NY about Chinese language in US schools, but forgot about it until now. Well, I like the artwork too. Apparently, according to this Jan 2010 NY Times article: Foreign Languages Fade in Class — Except Chinese., many schools in New York gave up teaching…
-
Museum Brandhorst in Munich
The last museum that I “visited” in the Kunstareal was Museum Brandhorst which features 20th and 21st century art. Unlike the Der Moderne which was mostly monochromatic concrete and glass, the building is colorful. The facade of the building by Sauerbruch Hutton looks like an abstract painting, as if it is an advertisement of what…
-
Der Moderne, Munich
The other museum that I ran in and out of is the Pinokothek der Moderne that houses art from the 20th and 21st centuries. Designed by the German Architect Stephan Braunfels, the Pinakothek der Moderne was opened in September 2002 after seven years of construction. As it was drizzling that morning, the visitors deposited their…
-
Neue Pinakothek, Munich
On my last day in Munich, I had only 3 hours to do some sightseeing. Several art museums are clustered in an area (Kunstareal; go check out its cool web site) just north of the center of Munich which I can reach easily. I would not have enough time to enter and view the art…
-
Public Toilets in Lausanne
After my last post on interesting beverages, I thought that it might be fun to blog about what might be required afterwards. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WL2ZnE1vAU&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hd=1] The last time I was at Le Flon (a Covent Garden-like or Union Square-like place) in Lausanne, I did not see that transparent toilet. Knowing me, if I went in I would…
-
Olafur Eliasson’s Sense of Space: NYC Waterfalls
I am too busy at work and at the new home to report on recent happenings. So it is time to offload some posts that have been sitting around, let’s visit NYC, my fav place on this planet. The New York City Waterfalls was unexpectedly a controversial public art project. It was dismantled early because…