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Food for the Soul: The Barnes Foundation – Transitions
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…
Food for the Soul: Da Vinci and Salt
“A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.” Leonardo Da Vinci By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout What does Leonardo da Vinci have to do with salt? Quite a lot if you are in the city of Cracow. If you have already crossed Paris and Venice off your travel list and you…
Food For The Soul: Amber
“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,…
Food for the Soul: Women at Work- IV – The Toil
Jewish Woman with Oranges. Alexander Gierymski (1881). National Museum Warsaw. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout There is nothing attractive about toil—this mind-numbing effort of farming or doing some menial, repetitive tasks—to the person who is doing it. It can however, be appealing to artists as a subject, especially if such…
Food for the Soul: Berthe Morisot – Women Artists series 1
Edma Morisot. Portrait of Berthe Morisot, 1865. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Paris. Photo: Wikimedia Commons “I do not think any man would ever treat a woman as his equal, and it is all I ask because I know my worth.” ~ Berthe Morisot in her notebook By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout As…
Food for The Soul: British TV Miniseries
“In a few days, there’s going to be this international colloquium. And this place’ll be crawling with rich and powerful people, the world’s leading business people and politicians. – What, four days in the sun and they conclude that global recovery depends on their making more money?” `“The Worricker Trilogy” – BBC TV miniseries Check…
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