Tagged With "Alexander Calder"

I bet the dogs had more fun than you did!

Ha-ha, they did have a good time Thanks for the comment.

Macedonia, a former Yugoslav republic, and original home of Alexander the Great, has just invested a lot of money—many think too much—in rebuilding its capital city of Skopje, and trademarking its ancient hero, which it thinks Greece has...

These days, "branding" is a big issue in tourism, and tourist promotion agencies are looking for brands they can promote. Just as Skopje, Macedonia (see NewsLink just before this one) is branding itself as the hometown of Alexander the Great, Poland...

Main Building of the Wadsworth Atheneum - opened 1844   When I travel, I love finding small art museum with good collections. The Wadsworth Atheneum is one of my favorite finds. Opened in 1842, the Atheneum is the oldest public art museum in the...

Gumbo was visiting Halifax's historic brewery, founded by Alexander Keith in 1820. It is one of the oldest surviving commercial breweries in North America.

A press conference in Prague Tuesday will feature a long-lost work jointly written by Mozart and his rival Salieri. It was found in a Prague museum.

Stephanie Kalina-Metzger visits the elegant Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, a 2,000-acre resort in Pennsylvania offering an array of amenities to appeal to a wide range of travel tastes.

Every time I see a Calder I remember sitting at a concert, his sister immediately in front of me with mini-Calder mobiles hanging from her ears.

Fascinating. Thanks for posting. My family and I have watched the film Amadeus at least two dozen times, and always supposed the Salieri poisoning was dramatic confabulation.

It had always seemed suspicious to me, but I had never known that it was Pushkin who earned a Parson Weems award for this one! Well, it certainly worked out well for F. Murray Abraham!

Jonathan L visits a very empty MOMA to see its Alexander Calder exhibit

An allegorical Philadelphia fountain honors a fan of fountains and also fits in a tale of three sculptors.

Sort of like Russian nesting dolls, we have here an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island. Read on...

UPDATE British travel writer Simon Calder, writing in The Independent (UK), reports that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency will soon issue a clarification on the Cuba visit issue, applying the restriction only to visits made after January 12, 2021, the date that former President Trump designated Cuba as a sponsor of terrorism. That would clear the way for easier travel to the U.S. for people who had visited Cuba between March, 2011 when the rule about state-sponsored terrorism...

Join Samantha on a visit to an outdoor art venue filled with unusual works.

Sharp-tongued CEO Michael O'Leary thinks even bad publicity sells seats, and he's once again shown he's no shrinking violet

It's now (nearly) possible to paddle all the way across England in a canoe. The only obstacles are canal locks that require portage, and rights to a tunnel that are still being negotiated.   The project, connecting Liverpool to the Humber...

Cruising the Caribbean, Judy Barford visits Charlestown on the island of Nevis.