Near the end of my visit to the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibit of sculpture by Pablo Picasso, my eye was drawn past the sculpture, and into the city beyond.
The sheer curtain hanging at the wi
ndow softened the lines of the clustered buildings, making them feel almost a conscious backdrop to the sculpture, a model by Picasso for the building of the 50-foot monument in Daley Plaza, Chicago.
Photo: Jeremy Atherton/Wikimedia
A visit to the Desert View Watchtower on the eastern portion of the Grand Canyon’s South Rim. Constructed in the 1930s, it offers magnificent canyon views and a tie to the Native American history of the Canyon.
I was visiting a friend, and this was the view from their house. I could understand why they built their house facing this direction. I was taken by the beauty!
Samantha shares some street art pictures from her recent trip to Bogotá, Colombia.
A garden in South Wales is the topic of today’s post from ProfessorAbe
DrFumblefinger shares photos of the Fitz Roy Massif, one of the most famous and difficult to climb peaks in the world, situated in Patagonia.
Vienna’s Clock Museum, one of the biggest and best of its kind doesn’t really have 10,000 clocks, but you’d never know that as you get lost in its world of time.
The oldest monumental fountain in Paris has a long history of rebuilding, renaming and relocating
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I should have mentioned: the special exhibition at MOMA is on until Feb. 7th, and includes very many pieces, from his earliest experiments with sculpture to nearly the end of his life. It’s a well-curated exhibit that keeps in mind the parallels in his changing work in both two and three dimensions.