Here are eight images of the National Art Center, Tokyo, a museum in the upscale Roppongi district. I really liked its wavy curtain-of-glass exterior and three-story high entry lobby and concrete conical niches at each end. And the cozy lounge chairs in its ground floor cafe.
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90-Second Slovenian Alpine Museum Advisor
Anyone who’s passed through knows that Slovenia is very much an alpine country. The connection to its mountains, both cultural and spiritual, is strong, rich, proud. Like skiing, hiking is a national pastime, second nature to most. You’re just as likely to come across four generations of a family hiking together along a trail as… Continue reading
Cleveland Museum of Art – December 2019
A few dozen photos for future reference from a visit on 18 December 2019.
Continue readingNassau’s Pompey Museum of Slavery – a 65-Second Visitors’ Notebook
So you’ve got time to kill in Nassau and want to do something besides eat, drink or shop? Here’s your best option: The Pompey Museum of Slavery and Emancipation. Located in the aptly-named Vendue building – French for ‘sold’ – the museum is rightly described as a Bahamian national treasure, an important symbol of how –… Continue reading