Continue Reading Hamburger Kunsthalle "L'art est un jeu sérieux" - I lived in Hamburg from 1970 to 1981 with many hours spent in this museum. Today, the freshly renovated and now reopened Hamburger Kunsthalle…
Continue Reading Museum der Arbeit Hamburg-Barmbek Hamburg Museum of Work In the courtyard of the museum for work in Hamburg you find a huge drill blade that was used to dig one…
Continue Reading Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau Dresden Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Dresden, often called”Florence at the river Elbe,” is a beautiful city, and one of contrasts. Having suffered through one of the worst…
Continue Reading Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt An oasis of art in a city of banking I cannot recall his name for the life of me. He was a Hungarian refugee who had managed to escape after the…
Continue Reading Deichtorhallen Hamburg Halle für aktuelle Kunst/Haus der Photographie Part of Hamburg’s museum mile, these two beautiful structures were built between 1911 and 1913 as market halls. The hall for contemporary art…
Continue Reading Museum Medley Deutsches Historisches Museum In honor of Zeitgeist Northwest’s upcoming German Culture Week (for details see http://www.zeitgeistnorthwest.org) I will introduce a number of German museums or other…
Continue Reading Malheur National Wildlife Refuge the birds still outnumber the people Web statistics on Frenchglen (where this photo was taken) inform you that, as of 2015, 111 people lived in this little Eastern…
Continue Reading Joint Ventures The joy of artistic collaborations I met Steve Tilden, a metal sculptor and long-time Blackfish Gallery artist, a decade ago when I asked his permission to use a…
Continue Reading Finding a Balance experiencing nature vs photographing nature Shlomo Breznitz, an Israeli psychologist and sometime member of the Knesset, advised me years ago not to take photographs – ever. He was…
Continue Reading Pastiche A conflicted approach to Emil Nolde One of my occasional odd jobs during law school was milking cows. The farm had a thatched roof and hunkered down behind a…
