Almost everyone says the same thing after a trip: it’s good to be home. I’m now on my flight back to San Francisco and started missing home about two days ago. Continue reading
Do We Travel Just to Make Ourselves Homesick?
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A Cold Day in Prague
Greetings from Prague! I have to tell you that I’ve rarely been colder, but I’m enjoying this beautiful and picturesque city. After a nice breakfast at my hotel, I set out to get in a museum this morning: The Czech Cubism Museum. Continue reading
Rheingau
On my first trip to Germany in 2006, I didn’t have the time to do a wine country trip. This time, I knew that I would have adequate time to visit at least one winery, which is what we did on Sunday. We traveled by train from Frankfurt to Geisenheim (about an hour) and then by taxi the remaining kilometers to the winery. Continue reading
Frankfurt am Main
I am now in my third full day in Frankfurt where I am visiting my dear friend, Jesse, and his boyfriend, Tim. The weather has been sunny and crisp. And Frankfurt has turned out to be much more quaint, and compact, than I anticipated. Continue reading
Work of Art S2: Street Dealers
This week brought us our second team challenge. The eight remaining contestants were arranged in teams of two and charged with creating a large-scale piece of street art. The judging was respectable with another artist on the panel, which always makes me happy, and I found agreement this week with the judges’ decision regarding top and bottom. Continue reading
Coming Up
On Thursday, I’m off to Germany for a couple of weeks (with a side trip to Prague). I’m planning to do a few entries while I’m gone (including some video entries), so stay tuned for that. Since this is my first time blogging a trip, please be patient. Continue reading
Work of Art S2: Ripped from the Headlines
This week the artists were challenged to create a piece inspired by a pretty broad source: a New York Times’ newspaper headline. The prize was $20,000 and the opportunity to have the winner’s piece on display at the NYT headquarters. Unlike the Entertainment Weekly challenge, no one from NYT appeared on the panel but I sensed their influence nonetheless. Continue reading
Work of Art S2: Back to School
So far we’ve had two challenges that were fairly broad – do something related to motion and make a piece of Pop art – and two based on another piece of art work – the kitsch challenge and this week’s kid’s art challenge. Continue reading
All in One Place
Another SF open studios season has passed! Luckily, I’m here to recap for you. I’ve decided to put the last two weekends into one post as the venues I visited for each weekend were similar: Fort Mason for weekend 4 and Hunter’s Point Shipyard for weekend 5. Both locations offer large, multi-room buildings with a military past that now house artists and/or arts organizations and give you the opportunity to see the work of dozens of artists in one place. Continue reading
How Much is Too Much?
As I plan a trip to Europe next month, I’m having the same dilemma I always have: do I plan a busy trip with lots of activities or a more relaxed version. I almost always go with the more relaxed version eschewing too-tight scheduling. Due to work demands, I’ve cut my trip down from 14 to 11 days, which is never as much as it sounds like and only makes my dilemma worse. Continue reading