“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” Claude Monet By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout San Francisco’s De Young Museum is on a tearing streak as far as the milestone French artists are concerned. After Gauguin: A Spiritual Journey,…

“There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.” Paul Gauguin By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout By all accounts Paul Gauguin was not a nice man. In his quest for artistic expression he abandoned his long-suffering wife and kids, he practically drove…

“Ars longa, vita brevis. Art is long, life is short“- Hippocrates “Life, if well spent, is long” – Leonardo da Vinci By Nina Heyn -Your Culture Scout Imagine a designer whose technical designs remain mostly in the blueprint but never go into technical trials or a production line. Imagine a scientist who has to hide…

“In opposition to the general pessimism, I set the search for joy, for pleasure.” René Magritte By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout The Belgian artist René Magritte made his name as a surrealist in the 1930’s, joining a cultural movement that has been spreading since 1920’s and already included poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who coined the…

“I think people care. If not, why so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to see the Parthenon, to Chartres, the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao… Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.” Frank Gehry By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout…

“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one go.” ~ Truman Capote By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout May be there aren’t exactly “One Hundred Places You Need to Visit Before You Die” but Venice would definitely be nice to check out before you check out for good. For literally ages…

“If Jacques Chirac is so interested in non-European art it’s largely because the 20th century discovered the quality, scope and significance of these cultures after having dominated and scorned them for such a long time.”< em>Former French Culture minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon in an interview for Financial Times By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout It is…

“Apart from painting and gardening, I’m good for nothing. My greatest masterpiece is my garden.” Claude Monet By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout It goes without saying that you can literally spend weeks in Paris just visiting museums, taking in sights and exploring points of interest and there will always be something new to discover….

“Who is this museum for? …For everybody- to give a chance to meet Jewish community that gave the world great thinkers, leaders, scientists, writers, musicians and painters.” Marian Turski – journalist, historian, Chairman of the Board of POLIN Museum, Vice President of Jewish Historical Institute in Poland, Holocaust survivor Check it Out! By Nina Heyn,…

“The man was an expert in deceit, and he came to my father’s house bringing a necklace strung with gold and amber beads. While my dear mother and her maids examined and handled it, haggling over the price, he nodded silently to the woman.” Homer, The Odyssey (Book 15) Check it Out! By Nina Heyn,…

“For the moment – an eternity it must have seemed to the others standing by – I was struck dumb with amazement, and when Lord Carnarvon, unable to stand the suspense any longer, inquired anxiously, ‘Can you see anything?’ it was all I could do to get out the words, ‘Yes, wonderful things.” Howard Carter…

“BioDesign Studio is an experience like no other. This is a space where visitors of all ages can gain a deep understanding of their own power to use synthetic biology to solve big problems, like food security and climate change. We’ll be inspiring the next generation of biotech innovators.” Tim Ritchie, President and CEO of…