Category: museums
Museo del Novecento 2
The Museo del Novecento (Museum of the Twentieth Century) was opened at the beginning of the year after renovation. We entered it from the bookstore which faces the piazza. It was not apparent from the piazza that there is a museum entrance. We rented an audio guide and spent quite a bit of time at each stop. …
Museo del Novecento 1
Museo del Novecento (Museum of the Twentieth Century) is located next to the Duomo inside the Palazzo dell’Arengario, and faces the Galleria. The exhibits are all from Italy created since 1900. The building looks like one of those in paintings by Giorgio de Chirico (which we saw several in the museum). This museum features Italian art…
Joylessness in bronze
Outside the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich (Museum of Design, Ausstellungsstr. 60) is a fountain and around the perimeter of it are several bronze statues. All are all looking at the fountain either with deep thoughts, heavy emotions, or a headache. One has apparently gone mad (or at least I think he has) and is…
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…