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 […]
Hero of the Week: April 4, 2019 – Nina Heyn
Nina is the founder of Torus International, a marketing strategy solutions consultancy that specializes in entertainment marketing and film acquisition, particularly in international markets. Her recent activities in international markets included service as head of […]
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 with Nina Heyn
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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 […]
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: Oscar Treasures in Black and White
“It shouldn’t work. It shouldn’t be magic. You shouldn’t weep happy and then sad and then happy again. But you do. And I do. And we all do.” ― Ray Bradbury, The Cat’s Pajamas By Nina Heyn, Your […]
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: Fondation Louis Vuitton
“I think people care. If not, why so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to see the Parthenon, to Chartres, the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao… Something […]
Food For the Soul: Venice
“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one go.” ~ Truman Capote By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout May be there aren’t exactly “One Hundred Places You Need to Visit Before […]
Food for the Soul: Crazy Rich Asians
“Rachel Chu: So your family is rich? Nick Young: We’re comfortable. Rachel Chu: That is exactly what a super-rich person would say.” ~ Dialog from the movie Crazy Rich Asians By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout You don’t […]
Food for the Soul: Dark Money
“Campaign finance is the gateway to every other issue you might care about – whether it be education or tax reform or foreign policy.” Ann M. Ravel, former chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission. By […]
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 […]
Food For The Soul: Museum POLIN
“Who is this museum for? …For everybody- to give a chance to meet Jewish community that gave the world great thinkers, leaders, scientists, writers, musicians and painters.” Marian Turski – journalist, historian, Chairman of the […]
Food For The Soul: Amber
“The man was an expert in deceit, and he came to my father’s house bringing a necklace strung with gold and amber beads. While my dear mother and her maids examined and handled it, haggling […]
Food For The Soul: Cannes Film Festival
“So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?” Christina Aguilera Check it Out! By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout Every May since 1946, the most famous and the most prestigious film festival in […]
Food For The Soul: “Beirut”
” – 2000 years of revenge, vendetta, murder… -Welcome to Beirut” A dialog in the movie Beirut Check it Out! By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout In the olden days of cinema, circa last century, […]
Food For The Soul: Ancient Egypt
“For the moment – an eternity it must have seemed to the others standing by – I was struck dumb with amazement, and when Lord Carnarvon, unable to stand the suspense any longer, inquired anxiously, […]
Food For The Soul: Abacus – Small Enough To Jail
“(The US Banks issued 4.8 trillion in fraudulent mortgages and toxic loans) … but they could not bring them trial because of the institutions were so large and so internationally connected that indicting them could […]
Food For The Soul: Immersive Museums
“BioDesign Studio is an experience like no other. This is a space where visitors of all ages can gain a deep understanding of their own power to use synthetic biology to solve big problems, like […]
Food For The Soul: The Blacklist
“So the Federal Government has armed a cyber terrorist with a digital equivalent of a nuclear warfare. Another fabulous example of your tax dollar at work.” THE BLACKLIST TV show Check it Out! By Nina […]
Food For The Soul: Call Me By Your Name
“How you live your life is your business, just remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. And before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your […]
Food For The Soul: Portraits and Selfies
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; […]
Food For The Soul: Museums in San Francisco
“I believe that art can create the power and energy of happiness,” artist Hung Yi. Check It Out! By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout As you probably know, apart from gorgeous views, overpriced real estate […]
Food For The Soul: The Post and Darkest Hour
“Ben Bradlee: If we don’t hold them accountable, who will? Kay Graham: We can’t hold them accountable if we don’t have a newspaper.” Dialogue from the THE POST CHECK IT OUT! By Nina Heyn, Your […]
Food for the Soul: Movies to Make You Feel Good
CHECK IT OUT! By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout Reading news in the morning and then political or financial commentaries in the afternoon can effectively keep you depressed all day long. So, to cheer everyone […]
Food for the Soul: Sky Ladder, da Vinci, and Collecting Modern Art
“Even the most art-averse cynic will recognize the blood, sweat and tears that went in to creating this strange and beautiful experience.” ~ Jordan Hoffman, reviewing Sky Ladder in The Guardian Check It Out! By […]
Food for the Soul: Geostorm
“Thanks to a system of satellites, natural disasters have become a thing of the past. We can control our weather.” ~ President Palma in Geostorm Check it out! By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout As […]
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 […]
Food for the Soul: Pacific Standard Time LA/LA
“In a way that is possible only in Los Angeles, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA will implicitly raise complex and provocative issues about present-day relations throughout the Americas and the rapidly changing social and cultural fabric […]
Food for The Soul: British TV Miniseries
“In a few days, there’s going to be this international colloquium. And this place’ll be crawling with rich and powerful people, the world’s leading business people and politicians. – What, four days in the sun […]
Food for the Soul: Wolf Warrior 2
“May be people have kept their patriotism buried for too long” ~Wu Jing in a press interview Check It Out! By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout Wolf Warrior 2 is tearing right now through cinemas […]
Food for the Soul: Da Vinci and Salt
“A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.” Leonardo Da Vinci Check It Out! By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout What does Leonardo da Vinci have to do with salt? Quite a […]
Food for the Soul: Valerian or Why Hollywood is Hard to Beat
“My stress comes from the people who try to not let me do what I want to do. That’s probably why it happens that I’ve worked a few times with a studio, but never for […]
Food for the Soul: 13 Minutes & Dunkirk
Check it out! By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout Today, a couple of very different movies about Second World War and how actions of individual, anonymous people could change some big historical events. 13 Minutes […]
Food for the Soul: Generation Wealth Exhibition
“When the financial crash happened in 2008, I realized that the stories that I have been telling since the early 90’s about consumerism and about materialism and how that had become part of the American […]
Food for the Soul: “Jack Strong”
Food for the Soul Series Check it out: Jack Strong: Movie to Rent “Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of […]
Food for the Soul: The Luncheon of the Boating Party
Food for the Soul Series Check it out: The Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-Auguste Renoir By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout “To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and […]
Food for the Soul: “The Circle”
Check it out: [CAF Note: A big shout out for our new correspondent writing under the handle “Your Culture Scout.” They are my best source for great movies, art and music and will be posting […]