Garden by the Sea

28Feb08

Roman Korovin. From the series “Garden by the Sea,” 2005-2007

I remember Latvia in the mid-1990s. Somehow, it was a romantic place. The landscape was picturesque: trenches from World War Two overwrote the pinehills on the Kurland peninsula hiding one-family-house villages from the beachwinds of the Baltic sea. The dissolution of the Soviet Union brought squalor [...]

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I wish I were…in Liechtenstein

14Feb08

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, photo via Wikipedia
Liechtenstein’s capital Vaduz has a population of 5.000. Other than the castle (upper left of the image), the main tourist attraction of this village is the Kunstmuseum. In the neighboring countries of Switzerland and Austria or even Germany, almost every larger town has a Kunsthalle or two. Most of them are [...]

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