Two Free National ‘Arts’ Museums in Dublin, Ireland
The National Museum of Decorative Arts along with the Irish Museum of Modern Art are two free museums on the western side of Dublin. We did both of them in […]
Category Archives: Art
Portraits of Pain, Frida Kahlo’s Museum in Mexico City
Frida Kahlo, the great Mexican artist, lived in a world of pain, and her anguish shows in her many self-portraits. And yet she embraced life. Her pain was both physical […]
Taking Panorama Shots when Travelling
Years ago I discovered these wonderful little throw-away cardboard cameras that shot great panoramas. They didn’t have much range of focus; essentially the only things in focus were at least […]
Toledo es El Greco, El Greco es Toledo
When I arrived in Toledo the first time, the bus dropped us at the road below the city and we began a long magical trudge upwards through the winding medieval […]
Three-Dimensional Collages of Stone and Plaster in India
In India, many of the buildings and other structures appeared to be three-dimensional collages. Plaster and mirror ‘collage’ in the Amber Palace just outside of Jaipur. If I was trying […]
Puerto Vallarta: The Art Walk
There are many superb art galleries in Puerto Vallarta but the bulk of them are clustered around the Centro Historico, and on Wednesdays 6:00 to 10:00 they sponsor an Art Walk. Some examples of the […]
One Word Photo Challenge: Elephant Art
Most of the elephant art I’ve encountered has been in Asia where elephants have been part of daily life for eons. A carved elephant at U Bien Temple in Bagan, Myanmar. Painting […]
