REVIEW: MUDE, Lisbon Design Museum

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Right in Rua Augusta (map), Baixa neighbourhood’s main street, the new Lisbon Design and Fashion Museum has been opened since the beginning of last summer. As you’re walking down this pedestrian street, it’s hard to miss it on your left side, just before you reach the arch. The 3.000 sq meters now shows 170 pieces of the 2.500 of the total collection bought from Francisco Capelo and that we will all be able to see from October this year. This collection pretends to show a bit of the Design...

February 10th, 2010 | Alexandre Kühl Oliveira | Read More | Comments: 0
Filed under: Attractions, design, Family Friendly, fashion, museums, News, Outdoors & Recreation, The Arts

Stroll Through Amsterdam’s Red Light District by Day

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Oudezijds Achterburgwal is right in the centre of Amsterdam’s Red Light District. It is a narrow canal lined by sex shops and special windows where women in lace-trimmed lingerie sit on high stools, facing the street, manicuring their nails, reading magazines or chatting on their cell phones. If the curtains are closed, it means they are at work. This part of Amsterdam comes alive late afternoon. It is not risky or dangerous. Peep until your eyes fall out, but don’t take photos unless you...

February 10th, 2010 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 2
Filed under: amsterdam walk, city walk amsterdam, featuredarticle, Just a Bit Weird - Fun & Quirky Places, museums

Explore The Secret Language of Animals

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If we could talk to the animals, and they could talk back to us, we’d be steps closer to understanding the magical relationships we have with our furry, feathery, and slimy friends. But since we can’t, the current exhibition at the Tacoma Art Museum attempts to bridge the gap using art to explain our emotional connection to the animal kingdom. Living Room Detail, Bill Scanga The Secret Language of Animals is a family friendly exhibition, installed over three galleries and the lobby, and features...

February 10th, 2010 | Mary Jo Manzanares | Read More | Comments: 0
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Graham Nash Takes Aim at EMP

... collector, and co-founder of Nash Editions, the first professional fine-art digital printmaking studio. His photographs have been exhibited at museums and galleries around the world, and were published in the beautiful photography book, Graham Nash: Eye To Eye. Graham Nash, musician and photographer Nash now brings his photographs to Seattle with the exhibit Taking Aim: Unforgettable Rock ‘n’ Roll Photographs, on exhibit at the Experience Music Project|Science Fiction Museum and Hall of...

February 9th, 2010 | Mary Jo Manzanares | Read More | Comments: 0
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Happy Anniversary To the Scottish Modern Art Gallery

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Join me in wishing the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Happy 50th Anniversary! Did you know that fifty years ago, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art was the first gallery in Britain opened to focus solely on establishing a collection of modern art. (It seems young, but I suppose if it’s “modern” art it wouldn’t be that old would it?) The gallery is a sister to Dean Gallery and over the past five decades the gallery has been doing its best to be a prime...

February 6th, 2010 | Andy Hayes | Read More | Comments: 0
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The Dr. Seuss you didn’t know on display in Atlanta

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Did you grow up listening to the Cat in the Hat? Author Theodor Geisel, Dr. Seuss to us, was a political cartoonist at a New York newspaper from 1941 to 1943. He saw the danger of the Nazi government in Germany early and used his skills to warn people about isolationism, racism and antisemitism. You may not have realized those themes were prevalent in his books when you were little, but they are in his classics such as The Lorax, The Butter Battle Book, The Sneetches, Yertle the Turtle and Horton...

February 5th, 2010 | Linda Erbele | Read More | Comments: 0
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Celebrate the 2010 Winter Olympics on the Royal Hudson Steam Train

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Here’s your chance to ride on a classic steam locomotive when the Royal Hudson steam train visits White Rock on Monday Feb 8,making a special passenger trip from Vancouver, returing the following day. Stop overnight and enjoy the hospitality of this beautiful waterfront community before heading back to Vancouver. Take in the special festivities in White Rock which include the 2010 Olympic Torch community activities as well as the bit of the White Rock Winter Festival. The Royal Hudson is an...

February 5th, 2010 | thevancouverguide | Read More | Comments: 0
Filed under: 2010 Winter Olympics, Announcements, Attractions, Events, Family Friendly, featuredarticle, History & Information, museums, Tours

Amsterdam: Palace without Royals

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Take the number of days in a year. Put one before and nine after it, and you will know how many wooden piles were rammed deep into Amsterdam’s soggy soil to prevent the Royal Palace at Dam Square from collapsing. This is what my primary school teacher taught me. She surely talked about the functions of the palace, but all I remember is 13659 wooden piles. Royal Palace is a misnomer because the Royal family does not live here. They use the building for official functions. Queen Beatrix lives in...

February 4th, 2010 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 1
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The ’80s are Back at the Powerhouse Museum

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As a child of the ’80s that never quite moved past the colorful decade, I couldn’t resist checking out the Powerhouse Museum’s The ’80s Are Back exhibit. If you were born in the decade or look back on it fondly, you’re going to love this. From the moment you enter the exhibition’s tunnel, with its pop songs blaring, you know you’re in for a good time. There really is something for everyone here. As a music buff I drooled over Boy George’s canary yellow suit, Michael Jackson’s...

February 3rd, 2010 | Lauren Katulka | Read More | Comments: 3
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Sweet Deals at Local Museums

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During the month of February enjoy 28 days, 39 museums at 50% off. Pick up a FREE Museum Month Pass at Macy’s and receive half-off admission at 39 San Diego County museums all month long. Guests with a pass may bring up to three people with them to any participating museum to receive half-off, too. Macy’s Store Locations in San Diego County include: Horton Plaza, Fashion Valley, North County Fair in Escondido, Mission Valley, Plaza Bonita in National City, Chula Vista, Otay Ranch, El Camino...

February 1st, 2010 | Pam Nagata | Read More | Comments: 0
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What to do on a rainy day in Honolulu

... great selection of blockbuster films, Kahala Theaters tends to play indie and dated movies, and the Movie Museum plays 1-2 films throughout the day. museums: Honolulu has some fabulous museums. From art at the Honolulu Academy of Arts to Hawaiian culture and science at the Bishop Museum, you’ll be sure to end your day smarter than it started. Keep in mind that Hawaii is called both “The State of Aloha” and “The Rainbow State.” After the rain comes a gorgeous bow...

January 31st, 2010 | byun | Read More | Comments: 0
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Art By Mail

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In my previous post I told about the exhibition dedicated to functionality in the guise of art or art per functionality, as you please. There is another story of that sort, now it’s about Mail Art. Rather funny and a bit weird business I’d say, as you can see at a special exhibition which I write about below. But now what it is. It’s about both collecting stamps, envelopes and creating your own stamps, envelopes and postcards and sending them to an addresse. Not just to create...

January 31st, 2010 | Ivan Stupachenko | Read More | Comments: 0
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Golden Bend: Where Wealthy Amsterdammers Lived

... double-fronted mansions whose façades hint at the wealth inside. Today, many of these opulent canal houses have been converted into apartments, are museums or used as offices. Golden Bend in 2010 Herengracht 475: extravagantly decorated with allegorical figures and surmounted by a slender balustrade. Herengracht 493: double fronted mansion with a double staircase, and a lavishly carved pediment. Four mansions on Herengracht are home to museums: Herengracht 573: Museum of Bags and Purses displays...

January 30th, 2010 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 3
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Hermitage Amsterdam Prepares for Next Exhibition

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The Hermitage Amsterdam will be closed from 1 February to 5 March 2010 to prepare for the Matisse to Malevich exhibition. Hermitage Amsterdam is a branch of the famous Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Ever since it opened last year, the museum has been immensely popular. The inaugural exhibitions At the Russian Court ends on 31 January. This exhibitions tells the life story of the Romanov Tsars through 1800 objects on loan from the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg The second exhibition...

January 25th, 2010 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 2
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The Beats Still Go On

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Smoky coffee houses, poetry readings, black clothing, and lots of existential angst were hallmarks of the Beat writers and the freedom of speech issues they engendered during the 1950’s. Their experimentation with drugs, sexuality, and alternate spiritual beliefs established a format of disenfranchisement that continues today. The most well known Beat writers are Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg, and the continued popularity of these writings have resulted in The Beat Museum,...

January 25th, 2010 | Mary Jo Manzanares | Read More | Comments: 0
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Decades of Beauty at The Modern

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The Modern, officially known as the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, is home to collections of modern and contemporary international art, representing a variety of movements, themes, and styles, built around five long pavilions and a reflecting pond. It is probably best known for its post-World War II art, with an impressive and diverse collection, worthy of many a repeat trip to see everything. Currently on display (through February 14th, 2010) is FOCUS: Gardar Eide Einarsson, an exhibition...

January 25th, 2010 | Mary Jo Manzanares | Read More | Comments: 0
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Swiss Winter Vacation without Skis

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The Glacier Express rolled across sparkling carpets of snow. The train swished across viaducts and popped in and out of tunnels. I leaned back in my seat. Around each hairpin turn of the track, another scene from a child’s picture book greeted me. Chiselled mountain peaks, glinting tongues of glaciers and dazzling white sheets of skiing pistes crawled past. Weathered-brown Alpine chalets graced the valleys in a picturesque fasion only the Swiss are capable of. With an average speed of 35 km...

January 24th, 2010 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 1
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Amsterdam’s Cat Museum

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A bevy of cats cock a silent snook at the visitors of the Cat Museum. Like museum attendants they snoop around the rooms of ‘their’ museum or take a nap lying on the central heating. Cat-lovers will purr at the art collection of cat statuettes, cat portraits, cat paintings, cat pop art and cat artefacts. Dutch financier Bob Meijer founded Het Kattenkabinet in memory of John Pierpont Morgan, his red tom cat (1966 – 1983). The museum gives an overview of the role the cat played in art through...

January 20th, 2010 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 0
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Brooklyn’s Micro Museum

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First off, this place is not a museum of small objects or a collection of galleries filled with old PCs. A storefront community arts center amid a dense array of boutique shopping on Smith Street, the Micro Museum has been renting out rehearsal space and booking an ever-changing roster of local installations and performance art since 1986. AC DC Window - A Solar Powered Installation at The Micro Museum The museum also has an impressive archive of microfilm and video art and an eclectic collection...

January 18th, 2010 | Steve Mirsky | Read More | Comments: 0
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Winter Tip: An Afternoon in a Museum

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What better place to spend a cold winter’s day than in a museum? Amsterdam counts more than fifty museums so you may find it difficult to decide which to visit. Without hesitation, I would head straight to Rijksmuseum and the museum’s permanent exhibition; The Highlights of the Golden Age, showing works of art from one of the most glorious periods in Dutch painting. The exhibition includes Rembrandt’s best-known work: the Night Watch, or Nachtwacht in Dutch. Rembrandt was the most famous painter...

January 16th, 2010 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 2
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