Tag: travel
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Venice Biennale Art Show 2024 – Part 2
My wife and I spent April 2024 in Venice, mostly to relax, soak up history and culture, and indulge in more than a few happy hours, mostly centered on drinking Aperol Spritzes and eating cicchetti, the ubiquitous, cheap and addictive Venetian appetizers. But in addition, we chose April in part because we could attend the…
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Paintings that announce “I’m here”
My most recent post was about the Venice Biennale art show, which my wife and I visited in April of last year. It was a long one, maybe setting my personal blog-post length record, but that was not because I was going for a record (LOL) but because I wanted to talk about a lot…
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Venice Biennale Art Show 2024 – Part 1
Venice – the one in Italy – alternates two huge fairs, the Architecture Biennale and the Art Biennale, in a tradition that dates all the way back to 1893, when it marked the 25th anniversary of the marriage of King Umberto I of Italy to Margherita of Savoy. In April my wife and I were…
Heard and Seen Around Town 