Category: museums
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
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