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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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