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Venice Biennale – Pavilions and Palazzos
This final instalment of the recent trip to Venice for a couple of days of the art biennale focuses on the wider events in the city. Throughout Venice there are…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each week a playlist is curated on Spotify to go along with the blog. The pieces chosen reflect the articles in some way and are a mixture of old and…
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Stars – a Conversation and Cloth event
This coming week, on Wednesday 26th June, there will be a Conversation and Cloth event in Hokitika. At 5:30 in the library I will be talking about the stars, an…
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Venice and the Biennale – part two
The Venice Biennale’s traditional site is the Giardini, public gardens created by Napoleon at the start of the 19th Century. The first years of the exhibition saw more than 200,000…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each week a curated playlist from Spotify is made for the blog. The playlist references articles in some way and this week it features music from and about Venice, as…
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Hélène Kuhn Ferruzzi
Venice has long been known for its music, art and artists. In the narrow route along a canal that leads past Peggy Guggenheim’s gallery of European and American art is…
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Venice and the Biennale (Part One)
Taking place in the beautiful city of Venice with its picturesque canals, boats and bridges as well as its plethora of fine buildings, the Biennale 2024 is thought-provoking and surprising.…
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Home again
We are home again after our overseas trip and what a trip it was! Over the next few weeks I shall share some of the exciting things we saw in…
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Susanna Bauer’s crocheted leaves
Susanna Bauer, the UK based artist who stitches and crochets leaves, has published a new monograph. “IN LEAF”, published by 5 Continents Editions, celebrates the fragility of nature and its…
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Lobola – negotiating an African wedding
Thank you to our South African reader who sent this in to share. In Africa, weddings are often marked by a “bride price” – a payment that signals the negotiations…
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