by globalpro | May 22, 2019 | Travel
This museum in a bleak outpost has one of the worlds greatest collections of avant-garde art, rescued from Stalins clutches by an electrician. But now it needs a rescue of its ownI am sitting at a huge table at the Ministry of Culture in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, as...
by globalpro | May 18, 2019 | Travel
From his provocative Louvre pyramid to his inverted wedge for Dallas, the Chinese-American architect was too modern for his time but his angular marvels look perfect nowSo bold were IM Peis designs, they were often regarded as wilfully controversial, designed to...
by globalpro | Apr 26, 2019 | Travel
Design Museum, LondonThis astounding exhibition reveals the obsessive level of genius the great director showed, whether inventing the space age or restaging the Vietnam war in a London gas worksA photograph of a rambling snow-covered hotel in Oregon is on display in...
by globalpro | Apr 18, 2019 | Travel
The road back for the revered Basque artists sculpture park has been long but, in a way, fitting for a man who accepted the impact of time on his workAn eight-metre monolithic sculpture of reddish steel stands before me in the middle of a hilly field. Solid and...
by globalpro | Mar 25, 2019 | Travel
Steven Schapiros shot of a protest was taken on a cross-country trip with James BaldwinThe publication of James Baldwins book of essays The Fire Next Time in 1963 lit the touchpaper for the civil rights movement. Steve Schapiro, then a young freelance photographer,...
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