This decorative painted style, very popular in Buenos Aires, is called ‘Fileteado Porteño’, ‘porteños’ being what the inhabitants of Buenos Aires call themselves. The colourful style, with its painted swirls […]
The Mexican Revolution, a civil war that raged from 1910 to 1920, ousted the hated dictator Porfirio Díaz and created a new era with the government being in the hands […]
My dad used to take us kids wandering along the beaches of the Pacific West Coast where there was driftwood galore. Every often he’d find something the reminded him of […]
A collection of sea creature sculptures from around the world. From my sculpture tour in Puerto Vallarta I learned that this seahorse was the first sculpture added to the city’s […]
In Denmark it seemed as if there were more portraits than in other places. I’m not sure if that’s true but here are a few I noticed in particular. Family […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The first time I arrived in Toledo, the bus dropped us at the road below the city and we began a long magical trudge upwards through the winding medieval streets […]
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 […]
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