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Latona at Versailles. Photo of the Week #131
A month ago I had a wonderful stroll in the gardens by Versailles where the fountains were flowing. Fascinating to see all the frogs of the Latona fountain spewing water. The fountain is by the brothers Gaspard and Balthazar Marsy … Continue reading
Posted in Annina's Photos, Art, Music, Photo of the Week, Photos, Travels, Vacation
Tagged Fountain, Frogs, Latona, Leto, Photo of the Week, Photos, Versailles
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Preview. Photo of the Week #127
A couple of weeks ago I went to an opening of an exhibition North of Copenhagen. Beautiful place and a nice exhibition of contemporary ceramics. The atmosphere was a combination of the usual mingling and chatting of such occasions and … Continue reading
Posted in Annina's Photos, Art, Day-to-day, Friends, Photo of the Week, Photos, The Seasons
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Aprilsnar, April Fools’ Day, Pesce d’aprile, Aprilscherz, Poisson d’avril…
Danish newspapers have been full of April Fools’ pranks all day. I especially liked the one that said Denmark had shrunk 30 km2 because of the earthquake in Japan…but also this one from the National Gallery in Copenhagen is nice. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Day-to-day, YouTube
Tagged April Fool's Day, Aprilsnar, art, National Gallery, Pranks, Statens Museum for Kunst
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Tsunami
Those horrible events in Japan make quite an impression. Even though this is exceptionally violent I hope that the Japanese’s experience with earthquakes and tsunamis helps them overcome the situation. After all they did invent the term “tsunami” and one … Continue reading
Egypt. Photo of the Week #118
My thoughts go to Tunis and Cairo and the fight for democracy. Maybe this is the right moment. And in the process I cross my fingers that those bandits breaking into the Egyptian Museum have not destroyed too much and … Continue reading
Posted in Annina's Photos, Art, Museums, Photo of the Week, Photos
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MoMA and the crowds
Last week I visited MoMA in New York for the first time, and it was with mixed feelings. The experience was annoyingly disturbed by masses of other visitors. This was clearly a place that could benefit enormously from some sort … Continue reading
The Bean. Photo of the Week #106
Click the bean! /anna
Posted in Annina's Photos, Art, Items and Places I Like, Photo of the Week, Photos, The Seasons, Travels
Tagged Anish Kapoor, Chicago, Cloud Gate, Photo of the Week, Photos, The Bean, Travels
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Hanging. Photo of the Week #105
I’m in Utah putting up pictures at an exhibition. Click the photo to see more. /anna
Posted in Annina's Photos, Art, Exhibitions, Photo of the Week, Photos, Travels
Tagged Carl Bloch, Exhibitions, Photo of the Week, Photos, Provo, Travels, Utah
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Great Books. The Top Ten – instalment 6. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
One of the books that really mattered during my studies was Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. I hardly wrote an essay without referring to it ever since I encountered … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Literature, Top Ten Books
Tagged Abildgaard, Beautiful, Blake, Edmund Burke, Enquiry, Fuseli, Great books, Literature, Philosophy, Sublime
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