[Author’s Note: Written with Andrew Berner, a true Barcelona aficionado whose assistance is much appreciated.] This is a post about the Palau de la Música Catalana (the Palace of Catalan Music) in Barcelona. And right off, let’s get past this “most beautiful” business. These posts would be very boring and predictable if every time you opened one …
Art & Architecture
Exploring the Genius of Vienna’s Otto Wagner
Can it be possible to prove the genius of an architect with just two adjacent apartment buildings? I think so. But that’s certainly not to say that Otto Wagner (1841-1918) did not create plenty of other examples of his genius, especially since – after an early period defined by historicism – his work moved him …
Chelsea Football Club Fights Anti-Semitism
As International Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed today – January 27 – two important efforts by the Chelsea Football Club are making news. Last Thursday, as part of the club’s “Say No to Anti-Semitism” campaign, Chelsea FC unveiled a massive mural by British-Israeli artist Solomon Souza, to hang on the club’s stadium wall throughout the …
“The Most Beautiful Art Nouveau Church in the World”
Having earlier touched briefly on the Vienna Secession movement (What is the Vienna Secession? October 29, 2019) and on its connection with Art Nouveau in Vienna (toward the end of More Art Nouveau Notes: Time and Place, May 31, 2019), I continue to be intrigued by the links between the two. Timewise, the two movements overlapped, with …
Sharing Guy’s Journey: Storytelling for Ten Years
It was on November 14, 2009, from Nairobi, Kenya, that I uploaded the first post to my new blog. Because I was in Africa, it made sense to play with the “journey” idea as I sought to come up with a title. It seemed to fit since by that time I had had a wide variety …
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