Like Zenadia Serabriakova, avery great artist -see more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Goncharova
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At Tate Modern
Must get to London…
There’s just too much to see in one visit to Tate Modern. Here’s a few works that captured my interest during our recent visit
From Louise Bourgeois’ Artist’s Room
From the Living Cities exhibition
Untitled (Ghardaïa) 2009 Kadar Attia. A city made of cous cous (I’ve seen this one before in Tate Liverpool)
You can walk on this map of Beiruit
Mogamma, A Painting In Four Parts: Part 3 (2012) by Juli Mehretu
Back over in the “Boiler House” (as the original building is now called)
Abstract in White, Green, Black, Blue Red, Grey and Pink (c1963) by Victor Passmore
Quarante Huit, Quai d’Auteuil (1935) an early abstract work by Winifred Nicholson
Holes (1954) by Shozo Shimamoto
Guano (1958-62) by Judit Reigl
Pictures of Spatial Growths – Pictures with Two Small Dogs (1920-39) by Kurt Schwitters
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CARLO CARRÀ
Finding Italian artists very interesting……
An interesting, insightful and useful post!
Delicious cakes, conversation and all the cultural Zeitschriften on display on the side.
Cafe Central, Vienna
„Central is not a coffeehouse like any other – it’s a philosophy.“
(Alfred Polgar)
If you want to rub shoulders with the likes of Sigmund Freud and Trotsky, you should visit Café Central in Vienna. Though, you’ll only see Mr Freud & his friends if you can see ghosts! Today this historical beautiful coffeehouse is overrun with the tourists but they don’t diminish its old-style charm.
The café culture is still strong in Vienna so during the week and off-season (if there’s such a time of the year when there are less tourists in Vienna) this café is still frequented by the locals. But if you’re visiting during Christmas season be prepared to wait in the cold to get in this very popular café/patisserie.
Housed in a grand old palace (Palais Ferstel) Cafe Central has been opened since 1876. It offers breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts and…
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Sketching the family silver!
Vorgestern las ich auf Martin Häuslers Blog Rumgekritzelt den Beitrag “Endlich wieder Silberbesteck” (siehe hier), auf den er vom Silberbesteck seiner Familie berichtete. Ich kann nur empfehlen, den Beitrag zu lesen!
Silberbesteck im Kasten (c) Foto von Susanne Haun
Wir haben uns köstlich amüsiert, vor allem, weil wir seit dem Sommer überlegen, was wir mit dem “na ja” Silberbesteck meiner Tante Rohrbeck machen, dass ich schon im Alter von 12 Jahren erbte und seit her tapfer von Wohnung zu Wohnung schleppe, ohne es je benutzt zu haben. Es hat eine dunkle Patina angesetzt, wahrscheinlich ist es auch das letzte mal von meiner Tante geputzt worden ….
Ich mag im täglichen Gebrauch mein wmf “Lübeck” Besteck, das meine Eltern zur Hochzeit bekamen und das sie mir vor knapp 10 Jahren schon zu Mamas Lebzeiten übergaben. Ich wusste auch einmal, wie die Dame heist (oder hieß), die dieses Besteck designt…
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BR 470 – Weihnachtszug
John D. Lyons is the professor behind the Cambridge Companion to French Literature and I bet he spent long hours deciding how to whittle that tome down to 132 pages for this French Literature, a Very Short Introduction for the Oxford University Press VSI series. Since I picked this up from my stash of VSIs at this time because I was interested in Maupassant (my review of Like Death is coming shortly), I went straight to the index, but woe! Zola and Balzac are there, but not Maupassant. Bother! I was hoping to have erudite things to share about his place in French Literature…
That brief disappointment aside, this VSI is most illuminating. The Introduction made me realise that I have a limited view of what French Lit is. I thought of it as novels and poetry coming from the geographical borders of France, with a proud history of 19th century authors like Zola, Balzac…
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Bettina Ehrlich-Bauer
Bettina Ehrlich-Bauer
Self portrait (detail)
1928
Photo from the wonderful exhibition at the Jewish Museum Vienna:
The Better Half: Jewish Women Artists Before 1938
04 Nov 2016 to 01 May 2017
Dorotheergasse
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