Hosted by American Grace Teshima, Chez Grace offers a wonderful forum for artists and art lovers to come together, share art and great conversation. Read more »
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September 5th, 2008 under Art, Context Travel, Paris, Special Events.
The Museo Carlo Bilotti is currently holding an exhibition entitled “The Big Bang”, in which the interconnection between science and art is explored. The exhibition, which will run until the 19th of October, explores this fascinating relationship through works of art by contemporary artists from different nationalities and backgrounds. Read more »
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September 5th, 2008 under Art, City Life, Culture, Museums and Monuments, Rome.
September is always a good month to visit London, but it’s particularly true this year, as September marks the beginning of the four years leading up to the Olympic games.
Mayor Boris Johnson has promised a month full of events; he tells us that for every day of the month and every hour of the day, London will be busting with activity, art fairs, concerts, and sporting events. Read more »
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September 5th, 2008 under Architecture, City Life, London, Special Events.
Imagine yourself under a star-studded sky, listening to classical melodies in the Teatro di Marcello, built in the 13th century BC by the Emperor Augustus in memory of his beloved nephew. No, this is not just a daydream! Read more »
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September 3rd, 2008 under Archaeology, City Life, Culture, Museums and Monuments, Rome, Special Events.
This show that just closed at Tate Britain is a splendid exhibition of well-known and totally new works of the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. Read more »
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September 3rd, 2008 under Art, City Life, Context Travel, Culture, Istanbul, London, Museums and Monuments.
In a neoclassical palazzo in the heart of Naples, Tribu’ B&B offers colorful, homey rooms at budget prices. It is the perfect launch pad for discovering Naples’ burgeoning contemporary art scene in the city’s galleries and the MADRE modern-art museum. Read more »
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September 3rd, 2008 under Accommodation, Context Travel, Naples.
Looking for a way to end endless lines for ferries at the harbor and for taxis upon arrival, Arcipelago Campano, a consortium of tour operators in the Neapolitan gulf, has introduced a fast, stress-free way of traveling to Ischia from mainland Naples. Read more »
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September 3rd, 2008 under City Life, Context Travel, Naples, Transportation.
Venice, more than any other city, is dependent upon and simultaneously threatened by its natural environment. Ecologists often use the word symbiosis to describe relationships between organisms. For one thousand years, Venice and her lagoon exhibited a form of mutually beneficial symbiosis; without the lagoon, Venice would never have survived, and without Venetians, the lagoon would be a historical artifact found only in old maps and in sedimentary records. Read more »
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August 30th, 2008 under City Life, Culture, Docent Essays, History, Venice.
Today was perfect; after feeling the effects of information overload from all the amazing tours of this past week, we got to relax and enjoy the Borghese gallery, in which we learned such a great amount about Caravaggio and Bernini and Raphael. We then spent the rest of the afternoon wandering around the city, trying to find our way to some famous sites before we have to head back home.
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August 27th, 2008 under Art, City Life, Context Foundation, Context Travel, Culture, Rome.
When I say that today changed my life, I mean it. The artwork I saw; the emotions I experienced, the conversations I had, they are things I will never forget. They day began early, out of the apartment by 8, a quick café latte and off to the entrance of Vatican City by 8:45. Read more »
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August 26th, 2008 under Art, Context Foundation, Context Travel, Culture, Rome.
