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Nina’s Blog: Italian Spring with Art-Part 1
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Nina’s Blog: Italian Spring with Art-Part 1

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Florence’s Uffizi Galleries—which contain the most famous Renaissance art on the planet—are, unfortunately, best avoided this spring. The size of the crowds is staggering, including huge field-trip groups of high-schoolers and tour groups with guides who block the view of every painting in sight. Right now, those elegant Uffizi halls could be the set for…

Food for the Soul – Discreet Charm of Kitchen Gardens
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Food for the Soul – Discreet Charm of Kitchen Gardens

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Gardeners (Les Jardiniers). Gustave Caillebotte. 1875-1877. Private collection. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Until about the end of WWII, if you lived in a house or at least in a ground-floor apartment, chances were that you had some sort of kitchen garden space. If you were lucky enough…

Food for the Soul: “The Morozov Collection: Icons of Modern Art” exhibition in Paris
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Food for the Soul: “The Morozov Collection: Icons of Modern Art” exhibition in Paris

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Valentin Serov. Portrait of the Collector of Modern Russian and French Paintings, Ivan Abramovich Morozov (1910). The State Tretiakov National Gallery, Moscow. © Tretiakov National Gallery, Moscow By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Paris is still the art center of the world. This notion was reinforced this year by a unique and massive exhibition…