Food for the Soul: Good Versus Evil in Art
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” ~ Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes (1911) By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The struggle […]
Food for the Soul: The Neglected Art of Pastels – Rosalba Carriera – Women & Art Series 15
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout There are some languages, like German, Polish, and Latin, that have many grammatical cases (so-called declensions) and three genders. You must know exactly what you are going to […]
Food for the Soul: Isabella Stewart Gardner – Women & Art Series 14
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout March 18, 1990 was the St. Patrick’s Day holiday in Boston. The streets were full of revelers, and the police had their hands full with traffic control. Two […]
Food for the Soul: Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Aerial shot of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. ©Academy Museum Foundation By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout It took years of false starts, changes of leadership, delayed construction, and other birthing pains, but […]
Food for the Soul: Gustave Caillebotte – The Unappreciated Impressionist
Gustave Caillebotte. Paris Street, the Rainy Day / Rue de Paris, temps du pluie (1877). Art Institute of Chicago. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Impressionism owes a huge debt to Gustave Caillebotte but hardly anyone today knows […]
Food for the Soul: The Magi at the National Gallery
The Adoration of the Kings. Jan Gossaert (1510-15). Photo © The National Gallery, London. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout One of the most artistically alluring Christmas themes is the one known as the […]
Food for the Soul- Women at Work, Part V – Princesses and Servants
Book of the City of Ladies. Christine de Pizan (c. 1405). Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout We do not know who illustrated the Book of […]
Food for the Soul: Women at Work- IV – The Toil
Jewish Woman with Oranges. Alexander Gierymski (1881). National Museum Warsaw. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout There is nothing attractive about toil—this mind-numbing effort of farming or doing some menial, repetitive […]
Food for the Soul: Women at Work Part II – At Home
Part A Young Woman Sewing. Nicolaes Maes (1655). Harold Samuel Collection, © City of London Corporation, London. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout This is the second part in our series […]
Food for the Soul – Women at Work Part I – Masterpieces
Birth of the Virgin. Domenico Ghirlandaio (1479-85). Santa Maria Novella, Florence. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The majority of figures in paintings, especially those created before the 20th […]
Fool for the Soul: Tenet
What we did with Inception for the heist genre is what Tenet attempts to bring to the spy movie genre – director Christopher Nolan By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Tenet was supposed to […]
Food For the Soul: Artists Gardens
Strange Garden (Dziwny Ogród). Józef Mehoffer (1903). National Museum, Warsaw. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout There are very few advantages of a global lockdown other than decreased pollution, […]
Food for the Soul: Lost Masterpieces. Part 2: Missing
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee. Rembrandt van Rijn (1633). Stolen in 1990 from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Boston. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Since antiquity, artworks […]
Food for the Soul – Police… in other countries, other shows
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout A lot of us are still stuck at home, often unable to travel or work. To alleviate boredom, many media outlets recommend shows to watch, but these recommendations […]
Food for the Soul – Cat Stories
Couturier Cat. Tsuguharu Foujita. 1927. Photo: Public Domain Wikiart.org Before there were videos of funny cats on the Internet, for about 4000 years there were simply fun cat paintings. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture […]
Food for the Soul: Artemisia Gentileschi – Women Artists Series 4
Artemisia Gentileschi. Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (La Pittura) (about 1638-1639). Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019. Photo: Courtesy of The National Gallery, London “…with me Your Illustrious Lordship […]
Food for the Soul: 500 years of Raphael in Rome
Raphael. Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. (1513) The Louvre. Courtesy of Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome April 6, 2020 markes a 500 year anniversary of passing of one the most beloved artists. A huge Raphael exhibition at […]
Food for the Soul: at home
Food for the Soul will now be adding a dedicated mini-site to bring you all the culture stories in one place By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The world has just hunkered down to […]
Food for the Soul: Frida Kahlo – Women Artists Series 3
An exhibition was planned in San Francisco to showcase Frida Kahlo’s personal life through personal mementos locked up for 50 years in Casa Azul By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Worldwide we are all […]
Food for the Soul: Michelangelo – Mind of the Master
Sweat and toil of the master who never wanted you to see it By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Michelangelo Buonarotti. Head of a Child with a Cloak around the Head. Mid-1520’s. Collection and […]
Food for the Soul: Adventures of the Ghent Altar
The Ghent Altar or An Adoration of the Mystic Lamb. Inside panels. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain. The most stolen artwork ever has been restored to its original glory By Nina Heyn – Your […]
Food for the Soul: Streaming Late at Night
Streaming gems you possibly missed Winter usually does not offer many exciting movies other than the awards heavyweights (where your choices are between equally soul-dampening entries of 1917 or maybe Marriage Story). So… long dark […]
Food for the Soul: Parasite and Farewell
"In today's capitalistic society there are ranks and castes that are invisible to the eye. We keep them disguised and out of sight and superficially look down on class hierarchies as a relic of the […]
Food for the Soul: Podcasting about da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci – the Louvre Exhibit with Nina Heyn and Ulrike Granögger. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout To conclude our series on da Vinci – Solari’s “Hero of the Year” – we […]
Food for the Soul: 12 Movie Gifts in a Pear Tree
By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout For holidays, we bring our 12 Christmas Movie Gifts – as diverse as a partridge in a pear tree and maids a milking would be. The only criteria for […]
Food for the Soul: Bombshell
“Lawyer: Ready to go to war?” Gretchen Carlson: Oh, yeah” – lines from the movie Bombshell By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout Charlize Theron is not only a film star (Oscar for her portrayal of […]
Food for the Soul: Knives Out!
“Ransom Drysdale: What is this? CSI: KFC?” A line from Knives Out! By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout Our streaming devices are groaning under the weight of choices – movies, seasons of shows, mini-series, documentaries […]
Food for the Soul: Museum Gardens
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need”. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout A typical museum of fine art is a depository of paintings, […]
Food For The Soul: The Laundromat
“Think of this as a fairytale that actually happened.” A line from the movie The Laundromat By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout How do you turn a dense literary account of financial (mal)practices into a […]
Food for the Soul: From Downton to Wall Street
King George V: “Were you effected by the strikes?” The Dowager Countess: “My maid was rather curt with me. She’s a communist at heart.” From the movie Downton Abbey By Nina Heyn – Your Culture […]
Food for the Soul: “Tel Aviv on Fire”
“-David, we have a celebrity here! This Arab writes “Tel Aviv on Fire.” Do you watch it? -Once. It’s anti-Semitic. -With a name like that, did you expect a Zionist show?” Dialogue from the comedy […]
Food for the Soul: Blinded By the Light
“Everybody’s got a hunger, a hunger they can’t resist; There’s so much that you want, you deserve much more than this.” Bruce Springsteen “Prove It All Night” By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout It is […]
Food for the Soul: Berthe Morisot – Women Artists series 1
Portrait of Berthe Morisot by her sister Edma Morisot. 1865. Photo credit: Wikimedia commons. “I do not think any man would ever treat a woman as his equal, and it is all I ask because […]
Food for the Soul: Berthe Morisot – Women Painters Series 1
Portrait of Berthe Morisot by her sister Edma Morisot. 1865. Photo credit: Wikimedia commons. “I do not think any man would ever treat a woman as his equal, and it is all I ask because […]
Food for the Soul: Digital Art in Paris
“Our goal is to invite the public to walk to the heart of the artwork.” Gianfranco Iannuzzi, artistic director and co-director of the exhibition “Van Gogh, Starry Night” By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout Crowded […]
Food for the Soul: Caravaggio in Rome
Caravaggio. Narcissus. Ca. 1599. Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica di Palazzo Barbierini. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. “There was art before him and art after him, and they were not the same.” Robert Hughes, late […]
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 […]
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: 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: 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 […]
Solari Hero of the Year 2017: Dr. Mark Skidmore
“While budgets can be complex, in principle accounting relies primarily on basic math. It should be feasible to track revenues flowing in and expenditures flowing […]
Solari Documentary of the Year 2017: Richard Dolan’s False Flags
“Don’t buy into the fear – it’s about waking up.” ~ Richard Dolan Richard Dolan’s new video series False Flags cuts through a hundred years […]
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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 […]