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Food for the Soul: The Barnes Foundation – Transitions
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Food for the Soul: The Barnes Foundation – Transitions

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By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout “Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in galleries than can surgery be learned by casual visits to a hospital.”   ~ Albert C. Barnes When Dr. Albert C. Barnes—physician, inventor, chemist, entrepreneur, and one…

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Over the years, I have listened to and read with interest the Solar Report and the w…

Food for the Soul: All the Rembrandts
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Food for the Soul: All the Rembrandts

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“There’s a drawing by Rembrandt, I think it’s the greatest drawing ever done. It’s in the British Museum and it’s of a family teaching a child to walk, so it’s a universal thing, everybody has experienced this or seen it happen. Everybody. I used to print out Rembrandt drawings big and give them to people…

Food for the Soul: Museum Gardens

Food for the Soul: Museum Gardens

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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need”.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)

By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout

A typical museum of fine art is a depository of paintings,…
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Food for the Soul – Money on Canvas

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The Payment of Dues. Georges de la Tour, 1630-35. Lviv Art Gallery, Ukraine (until 1940 – Lwów Art Gallery, Poland), ex Lubomirski collection. Photo: Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Ever since precious metal coins were invented as a convenient alternative to barter, from Phoenicia to ancient China, they…