Food for the Soul: Departing in Style – Mawangdui Tombs
“When future generations look back to my time, it will probably be similar to how I now think of the past.” Wang Yi Zhi, famous Chinese calligrapher 303-361 AD By Nina Heyn – Your Culture […]
Food for the Soul – Royal Dazzlers
“I have seen so many gems I did not expect to see in one place. No Venetian or papal collection can compare“- a papal envoy praising in 1560 a treasury collection of the Polish king […]
Food for the Soul – Museum Night in Europe
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout If you are a city school kid in Europe, no matter if attending an elementary or a high school, your class will be going to museums a lot. […]
Food for the Soul – The Inventor
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” – Upton Sinclair By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Living in the past, for instance […]
Food for the Soul: Da Vinci – 500th Anniversary
“How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.” Leonardo […]
Food for the Soul – The Joy of Color
“If you pay attention, nothing in nature stays the same for a single moment: You can’t be bored of nature, can you? Well, sometimes I’ll steal something from Van Gogh. I mean I do. Good […]
Food for the Soul: All the Rembrandts
“There’s a drawing by Rembrandt, I think it’s the greatest drawing ever done. It’s in the British Museum and it’s of a family teaching a child to walk, so it’s a universal thing, everybody has […]
Food for the Soul: Tears for Notre Dame
No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well […]
Food for the Soul: da Vinci Part 2 – Milan
“Leonardo is the perfect symbol both of the Renaissance and the modern man: complete, versatile, creative and future oriented“- Dr. Claudio Salsi, Director of Conservation of the Sforza Castle, Milan By Nina Heyn – Your […]
Food for the Soul: The Wandering Earth
“What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” – Henry David Thoreau By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout The movie The Wandering Earth has already made […]
Food for the Soul: De Young Part 2 – Monet
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” Claude Monet By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout San Francisco’s De Young […]
Food for the Soul: De Young Museum Part 1 – Gauguin
“There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.” Paul Gauguin By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout By all accounts Paul Gauguin was […]
Alexa Pulitzer ” A Guide to New Orleans”
Alexa Pulitzer A Guide to New Orleans Alexa Pulitzer | 19 February 2018
Food for the Soul – Binge on History
“Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” Winston Churchill, paraphrasing George Santayana By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Long winter nights are just perfect for plunging into long TV […]
Food for the Soul: The Year of da Vinci
“Ars longa, vita brevis. Art is long, life is short“- Hippocrates “Life, if well spent, is long” – Leonardo da Vinci By Nina Heyn -Your Culture Scout Imagine a designer whose technical designs remain mostly […]
Food For the Soul: At The Movies … At Other Countries
“If someone has to commit a crime in order to survive, society must take a look at itself and ask who the guilty ones really are.” Dr. Chen Zuo Bing, director of Kangfu Medical Center […]
Food for the Soul: Trapped Queens
Sir William Cecil: You must confront the truth, madam. She has a claim to your throne. Queen Elizabeth I: You would have me depose a sister monarch. Sir William Cecil: It is either civil war […]
Food for the Soul: The Oscar Race Has Started
“I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend.” ~Freddie Mercury – front man of Queen By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout Every autumn, various big, showpiece movies that start popping up in […]
Food for the Soul: MAGRITTE – known and unknown
“In opposition to the general pessimism, I set the search for joy, for pleasure.” René Magritte By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout The Belgian artist René Magritte made his name as a surrealist in the […]
Food for the Soul: Brain Not Brawn – Women In Action
“Debbie Ocean: How long would it take you to make seven pieces of jewelry? Amita: Five or six hours. Debbie Ocean: How long if I told you you didn’t have to live with your mother […]
Food for the Soul: Museum BRANLY
“If Jacques Chirac is so interested in non-European art it’s largely because the 20th century discovered the quality, scope and significance of these cultures after having dominated and scorned them for such a long time.”< […]
Food For The Soul: Following Claude Monet
“Apart from painting and gardening, I’m good for nothing. My greatest masterpiece is my garden.” Claude Monet By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout It goes without saying that you can literally spend weeks in Paris […]
Life – Week of 11.12.17
‘A lost world below the surface’: Russian explorers film in world’s biggest cave with drone (VIDEO) RT | 12 November 2017 Amazing Views…
Food for the Soul: Blade Runner 2049
“Every civilization was built on the back of a disposable workforce, but I can only make so many.” Wallace – a creator of replicants in Blade Runner 2049 Check It Out! By Nina Heyn, Your […]
Life – Week of 10.08.17
About Musica Secreta Musica Secreta | 08 October 2017 Historic Compositions.. Unique Airbnb bookshop proves to a bestseller as it’s fully booked for THREE YEARS Daily Record UK| 27 September 2017 Fantasy AirBnB..
Life – Week of 09.24.17
Southern Baptist Preacher Affirms Polyamory (Interview with Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood) Patheos | 26 September 2017 Love the One you’re With… An Animated Documentary Film Ex Libris | 25 September 2017 Hard Copy Face Book…
Life – Week of 08.27.17
Georges Bizet: Carmen ZDF | August 2017 Music and theater…
Life – Week of 07.02.17
Big Pig Pharma and the Trans-Gender Movement Giza Death Star | 05 July 2017 Cash cows for… Will I Get A Ticket? Vestoj | July 2017 A Conversation About Life After Vogue With Lucinda Chambers…
