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Paris – 10 The Best Art Museums
Within the city limits of Paris, there are around 130 museums. In order to make your journey "magical", we have compiled a short list of the best museums devoted to art and culture in the French capital.
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The Leopold Museum — 3rd Greatest Museum in Vienna
Vienna’s Leopold Museum is the best place to feel the dynamic power of modern Austrian art. Housing around 6,000 works of art — including the world’s most comprehensive collection of the talented, enigmatic Egon Schiele — the Leopold Museum takes you on a journey from the 1860s to the Wiener Secession, through the stylish era of Jugendstil, and into Expressionism.…
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Thyssen — the Best Museum in Spain
The best museum in Spain is in Madrid and, in our opinion, it is not The Prado. We have compiled a list of the best 10 museums for you to discover and enjoy in Spain; but first allow us to explain why we have chosen the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza as our pick for the #1 museum in Spain. The Thyssen possesses…
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The Best Surrealism in Venice and Potsdam
Surrealist painters imagined fantastical worlds. Through Surrealism, a movement born in France in 1924 and profoundly influenced by the horrors of World War I, writers and visual artists embarked on a novel cultural initiative with the hope of rejuvenating humankind spiritually. Surrealism in the visual arts may be best described as a rebellion against rationality. In fact, these artists found…
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Great Exhibitions from the Past at the Pompidou Centre
We put together this article for those of you who missed seeing interesting exhibitions at your favorite museums during recent years. Our hope is that you will enjoy seeing some of these images from the Pompidou Centre in Paris, even though most of the works of art pictured below are no longer on public display. Past exhibitions you will find…
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The Best Past Exhibits at the Grand Palais & Petit Palais
We put together this article for those of you who missed seeing interesting exhibitions at your favorite museums during recent years. Our hope is that you will enjoy seeing some of these images from Paris even though the works of art are no longer on public display. Past exhibitions you will find in this article include: Giovanni Boldini Ilya Repin…
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Previous Exhibitions at the Musée d’Orsay
We put together this article for those of you who missed seeing interesting exhibitions during recent years at one of your favorite museums: the Musée d’Orsay. Our hope is that you will enjoy seeing some of these images from Paris even though the works of art are no longer on public display. Past exhibitions you will find in this article…
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The Best of Boston — Gauguin, Monet & Sargent
When travelers tell us they plan to spend a week in New York, our initial response is to suggest that a 10-day visit to Boston and New York City would be ideal. For art lovers, Boston is a relaxed place to contemplate “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” (shown above), the monumental mural Paul…
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Alice Neel in the Guggenheim Bilbao — Astonishing Paintings
The Guggenheim Bilbao describes the painter Alice Neel (1900 — 1984) as “one of the most radical artists of the 20th century.” “A fervent advocate for social justice, humanism, and the dignity of people,” according to the organizers of this career-spanning retrospective, Neel “considered herself a ‘collector of souls’.” When this exhibition entitled Alice Neel: People Come First was presented…
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AMSTERDAM MUSEUMS — Enjoy the Best Art in the Netherlands
With its friendly, multi-lingual residents and highly functional transportation options, The Netherlands should be near the top of your list for a perfect get-away in the off-season.
