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Peggy Guggenheim
Here’s the latest news regarding the estate of Peggy Guggenheim and the museum of modern art she created in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, her home on the Grand Canal.
A time machine for Venice?
From the TEDx site: “Frederic Kaplan is an engineer, researcher and entrepreneur, with a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. He holds the Digital Humanities Chair at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and directs the EPFL Digital Humanities Lab. He is also the founder and president of a company that designs and produces innovative interfaces and consumer electronic products and of a joint venture focusing on digital publications.
Can we build Google maps of the past? Can we rebuild social networks of hundreds of years ago? How can we design time machines? Frederic Kaplan develops tools to travel not only in space, but also through time, and shows us his project to create a time machine for Venice!”
And here’s his talk:
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What a great TED talk on saving Venice!
Italian Pop Star
We need to be aware of all that’s going on…
[youtube]http://youtu.be/TpaQYSd75Ak[/youtube]
Enjoy! And practice your Italian.
And watch the audience (her fellow sisters) in this one:
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Here’s an article from today’s New York Times.
A rose in Venice
April 25th is the Feast Day of Saint Mark. It is also the day the Feast of the Rosebud is celebrated in Venice. A few photographs are here. And a link to a video is below.
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Veronese in London
There are quite a few paintings by Veronese that we’ll miss this summer — they’ll be at the National Gallery in London until June 15. Take a look at the NGL’s website and short videos to see what they have and to get a preview of some of the other works by him that I hope we’ll see, such as the ceiling paintings at San Sebastiano (near our hotel) focusing on the story of Esther.
Here’s a detail of The Crowing of Esther.
Torcello
We’ll be on the Island of Torcello the morning of Friday, May 16. Here’s a short video to give you some idea of what you’ll see.
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This island in the Venetian lagoon gives us an opportunity to think about what Venice might have looked like in the 5th and 6 centuries.
The image above left shows what survives of the ecclesiastical center of Torcello (8th-11th cs.), and the image at right is a view from the bell tower of Sta. M. Assunta.
“The Bosnia List” by Kenan Trebincevic
‘The Bosnia List,’ by Kenan Trebincevic and Susan Shapiro
reviewed by Janine Di Giovanni in the NYT, April 4, 2014
What does a child remember about war?
An amazing story…
about one family’s experience fleeing the violence in the former Yugoslavia. Read about Vildana “Sunni” Puric, now the host of a very popular radio station in DC, and so much more. A story from the Washington Post, 1/24/14.
From Bosnian refugee to beneficent radio host
