This is a copy of my post on my other Blog: Falling in Love with Arts https://wordpress.com/post/speakingabouttravel.wordpress.com/1221 This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge. The Collage I want to highlight here is the Palais Garnier, the opera house in Paris. The architect was Charles Garnier whose bold and decorative style had made…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare –Architecture Without Architects: Telč, a City in Czech Republic
This post is in response to Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare I just bought a book named ” Architecture Without Architects.” By Bernard Rudofsky, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1965. It is a very good book, providing a backdrop in understanding about Vernacular Architecture. It is easy-to-read with lots of B&W pictures. This book…
Weekly Photo Challenge – Angular _My Spain Trip #4 -Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge- Angular. The picture I posted here is the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which I visited last month. The museum was designed by the American-Canadian architect Frank Gehry. From the Museum’s website: “Hailed as the most important structure of its time when it opened in 1997, Frank Gehry’s…
I just published my second book: Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Angkor Wat, Cambodia by Denise | Make Your Own Book Dear friends: Please join me to appreciate the architectural wonder of Angkor Wat, and the beautiful art and culture of the Cambodian people. Sincerely, Denise
Eastern Europe 2013 #2 – St. Mary’s Altar, Krakow, Poland
If you ask me what impressed me most during this trip, without hesitation, I would say ” St. Mary’s Altar.” It is called Altarpiece of Veit Stoss, at St. Mary’s Basilica in Krakow, Poland. The altarpiece was carved between 1477 and 1489 by the Bavarian sculptor Veit Stoss. If you google this title, all you can see…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern – Dali Catholic Church, a Beautiful Combination of Western and Eastern Architecture – My Yunnan Trip # 11
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge – Pattern This post was already posted yesterday on my other Blog named Falling in Love with Arts. I am re-posting it here in order to categorize all my Yunnan posts in one place. I tried to re-blog yesterday and again WordPress messed up my photos. They…
Weekly Photo Challenge – Geometry #4 – The Nest and the Water Cube, Beijing, China
This is in response to Weekly Photo Challenge : Geometry, my fourth entry.
Weekly Photo Challenge: #2 Geometry
This is in response to Weekly Photo Challenge : Geometry, my second entry.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Geometry #1 – Colorado Convention Center, Denver
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Geometry. This photo was taken in July this year at the Colorado Convention Center, where I attended a conference. In my earlier post on this blog, I presented the Big Blue Bear, an iconic art work of this Center. Attention was not paid to the geometric design…
” Taking Imagination Seriously” – Janet Echelman
Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously Published on Jun 8, 2011 by TEDtalks Director http://www.ted.com/talks/janet_echelman.htmlTED “Janet Echelman found her true voice as an artist when her paints went missing — which forced her to look to an unorthodox new art material. Now she makes billowing, flowing, building-sized sculpture with a surprisingly geeky edge. A transporting 10…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign — McDonald’s in Salzburg, Austria
McDonald’s has flowers arrangement on its tables! It is in Salzburg, not any place in the United States! This post is in response to Weekly Photo Challenge : Foreign The picture was taken in the “Old Town” of Salzburg, Austria. Salzburg is the birthplace of Mozart and also part of the setting of the musical…
Weekly photo challenge: Big # 3 – St. Vitus Cathedral in the Prague Castle
Weekly Photo Challenge : Big To many people, St. Vitus Cathedral is Prague Castle. While the huge Prague Castle complex includes many fine buildings, St. Vitus is the one that is the most impressive. This picture was taken inside the St. Vitus Cathedral. We had to be in line for an hour before we could…
San Francisco Palace Hotel – Historic Tour and Lunch – my favorite program for out-of-town guests
The Iconic San Francisco Palace Hotel http://www.sfpalace.com/ The Palace Hotel located at 2, New Montgomery Street in downtown San Francisco, has been my favorite place to entertain friends and family who come to visit San Francisco. The Garden Court with its stained glass dome, is spectacular. The guests that I treated here were all very impressed,…
My Cambodia Trip, Part IV – Angkor Wat
Angkor Wat The modern name, Angkor Wat, means “Temple City” or “City of Temples” in Khmer; Angkor, meaning “city” or “capital city”. Angkor Wat is the largest Hindu temple complex in the world. The temple was built by King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century in Yasodharapura (present-day Angkor), the capital of the Khmer Empire, as his state temple and eventual mausoleum. Breaking from the Shaivism tradition…
My Cambodia Trip, Part II–Angkor Thom and the Bayon, the only Angkorian State Temple dedicated to the Buddha
Day #2 evening, we flew from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap. This is our hotel room in Siem Reap. Note the mosquito nets over the beds. Luckily we didn’t have to use them! Day #3, we are approaching the gate of Angkor Thom (Great Angkor or Great City). These elephants can carry visitors into Angkor…
The Window at Belvedere Palace in Vienna and the Window at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
Today when I was browsing posts from other fellow bloggers, I found a post of a picture of the window at the Freer Gallery of Art at Washington D.C. very much similar to the one at Belvedere Palace in Vienna where the famous painting of Klimt— “the Kiss” is housed. Here’s the picture that I took a few…
“I See What You Mean”, Denver’s Big Blue Bear at Colorado Convention Center
My last visit to Denver was 9 years ago. Recently, I happened to attend a conference which was held at the Colorado Convention Center. Wow! The first time I stepped into the Center, I saw the giant blue bear sculpture peeking into the Center’s lobby. It looked like fun and playful. Since I was already late,…
Denver Art Museum: “The viewers complete the art.” (Marcel Duchamp)
After the conference, I had about three hours before my flight. As the Denver Art Museum (DAM) was new to me, and it was quite close to my hotel, I determined to pay a short visit to the museum. The museum began as the Denver Artists’ Club in the 1890’s, and had a number of temporary…
My Notebook 