Being perpetually surrounded by the ordinary things of everyday life made me a bit unprepared for the reaction I had when I experienced my first man-made marvel. Never had I felt in awe of the “genius” behind a calculator, or the…
Today marks the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings on five beaches in Normandy by Allied forces, beginning the liberation of France and Northern Europe, and helping crush the Nazi war machine already being driven back to its own territory by the by the Soviet Red Army in the east.
In the corner of a small lake in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka I came across this delightful 3rd Century BC rock carving of a Smiling Elephant. It is so wonderfully ‘cartoonish’ that it set me thinking about the sculptor who clearly had a great sense of humor.
Following the “more than Manhattan” theme of the piece below, here are three current exhibits worth visiting at The Brooklyn Museum (America’s most over-shadowed major museum) this season—but for one, you’ll have to hurry, because it ends July…
Join Gutterpup for an enlightening and puzzling experience with the works of the Spanish surrealist
The Peabody Essex Museum (East India Square (161 Essex St) Salem, Massachusetts 01970. 978-745-9500) is presenting a show called ‘Turner and the Sea’ and I so wish I could see it. For those lucky enough to be in the area, it should be a…
The Lower East Side ( see map ) has been the home to immigrants for over 100 years. In the late 1800’s its population was primarily Jewish, In the 1950’s the population shifted to mostly Puerto Rican and then Dominican. Then in the 80’s and…
Poor Egypt gets some bad press at the moment and in the process their tourist numbers have fallen dramatically and that is understandable, however, in cities like Luxor tourism provides employment in one way or another for some 85% of the…
In time for summer, an exhibition of the photographs of Aaron Rose is now on at the Museum of New York City. Taken beginning in 1961, they show New Yorkers being themselves at NYC’s most popular beach. One of the earliest art photographers…
This year marks the 125th anniversary of Chicago’s Auditorium Building, known as one of the masterpieces of Louis Sullivan and his partner Dankmar Adler. As a monument to Chicago’s post-fire civic pride, a 4300-seat theatre (largest in the country)…
Being perpetually surrounded by the ordinary things of everyday life made me a bit unprepared for the reaction I had when I experienced my first man-made marvel. Never had I felt in awe of the “genius” behind a calculator, or the…
Today marks the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings on five beaches in Normandy by Allied forces, beginning the liberation of France and Northern Europe, and helping crush the Nazi war machine already being driven back to its own territory by the by the Soviet Red Army in the east.
In the corner of a small lake in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka I came across this delightful 3rd Century BC rock carving of a Smiling Elephant. It is so wonderfully ‘cartoonish’ that it set me thinking about the sculptor who clearly had a great sense of humor.
Following the “more than Manhattan” theme of the piece below, here are three current exhibits worth visiting at The Brooklyn Museum (America’s most over-shadowed major museum) this season—but for one, you’ll have to hurry, because it ends July…
Join Gutterpup for an enlightening and puzzling experience with the works of the Spanish surrealist
The Peabody Essex Museum (East India Square (161 Essex St) Salem, Massachusetts 01970. 978-745-9500) is presenting a show called ‘Turner and the Sea’ and I so wish I could see it. For those lucky enough to be in the area, it should be a…
The Lower East Side ( see map ) has been the home to immigrants for over 100 years. In the late 1800’s its population was primarily Jewish, In the 1950’s the population shifted to mostly Puerto Rican and then Dominican. Then in the 80’s and…
Poor Egypt gets some bad press at the moment and in the process their tourist numbers have fallen dramatically and that is understandable, however, in cities like Luxor tourism provides employment in one way or another for some 85% of the…
In time for summer, an exhibition of the photographs of Aaron Rose is now on at the Museum of New York City. Taken beginning in 1961, they show New Yorkers being themselves at NYC’s most popular beach. One of the earliest art photographers…
This year marks the 125th anniversary of Chicago’s Auditorium Building, known as one of the masterpieces of Louis Sullivan and his partner Dankmar Adler. As a monument to Chicago’s post-fire civic pride, a 4300-seat theatre (largest in the country)…
