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Tag: Public art

Mediterranean diet

This hasn’t suddenly changed to a food blog, it remains about my travels and I am still at the Eden … More

art, Cornwall, Eden Project, England, plants, Public art, travel, UK, United Kingdom

Art outside

The Eden Project is home to many sculptures, these horses (one of wood the other of bronze) are at the … More

art, Cornwall, Eden Project, England, Public art, travel, UK, United Kingdom

Faking a rainforest

Inside the rainforest biome at the Eden Project, heating and humidification systems artificially create a rainforest climate.  As I entered, my … More

art, Cornwall, Eden Project, England, Public art, rainforest, travel, UK, United Kingdom

Houses of Amsterdam

I know I am not the first and will not be the last person visiting Amsterdam to take pictures of … More

Amsterdam, architecture, Europe, houses, Netherlands, Public art, statues, travel

Permanent St Pancras Art

St Pancras tweeted this link to me about last week’s post, a YouTube video about One More Time.  You can watch … More

art, bronze, England, London, Martin Jennings, Paul Day, Public art, St Pancras, station, statue, street art, train, travel, UK, United Kingdom

Temporary Station Art

On the upper level of the station there are two permanent works of public art as well as one site … More

art, clock Cornelia Parker, England, London, Public art, St Pancras, station, train, travel, UK, United Kingdom

Lancaster Gate

The tube station is named after the closest gate into Kensington Gardens which itself was named to honour Queen Victoria, … More

England, Lancaster Gate, London, London Underground, Public art, railway, train, travel, tube, UK, United Kingdom

Struwwelpeter

Heinrich Hoffmann was born in 1809 in Frankfurt and trained there as a doctor specialising in psychiatry; running Frankfurt’s lunatic asylum. … More

children's stories, Europe, Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Heinrich Hoffmann, Public art, Struwwelpeter, travel

El Lissitsky Allee

Regular readers will know that I like, appreciate and share public art.  I often wonder whether artists know how their … More

Europe, Germany, Lissitsky, Public art, Schwalbach, travel

Write your mind

Having toured Monticello, I didn’t get a chance to visit the University of Virginia, another popular tourist attraction.  Instead, I … More

Amtrak, Cardinal, Chalk, Chalkboard, Charlottesville, First Amendment, Public art, street art, train, travel, United States, US, USA, USA Rail Pass, Virginia

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