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Museo Capodimonte (Naples)
Perched high above Naples, the Museo di Capodimonte is not the most accessible destination. Reaching it requires a conscious decision and a journey away from the bustling historic centre. Yet, that very effort became part of the experience for me. This museum may not be the largest museum in Italy, but it possesses a collection…
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The Army That Was Never Meant to Be Free
No one fears that a Greek statue might move. No one expects a mummy to rise. Both belong to systems that resolve death — through beauty, through ritual, through closure. The Terracotta Warriors belong to something else. They stand in formation, armed, facing outward, as though still engaged in a task that has not yet…
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Art and the More Beautiful Question
Pablo Picasso once famously said, “Computers are useless. They only give you answers.” The remark may have sounded provocative when it was first made, but Picasso might have been onto something. In a world where computers place almost every form of knowledge at our fingertips, answers have become easier to obtain than ever before. What has become…
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Monreale: A Perfect Day Wrapped in Gold
I thought I was just going uphill to a cathedral. That’s how it began — a short detour, a side trip from Palermo. I imagined a church, perhaps lovely, perhaps forgettable. A brief uphill climb to tick something off the list. But the moment I stepped into Monreale, I realised how completely I had underestimated…
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Jean- Michel Basquiat’s Artistic Rituals
Today I was doing a casual search on the internet and saw this cool video that encapsulated pretty much what I have been trying to teach my class for the past nine month. I can pretty much relate to the rut they are stuck in day in day out. They are constantly stuck on an…
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The Mystery of Knossos and the Minoan Civilisation
Knossos Palace is the most popular tourist destination in the Hellenic Republic after the Acropolis in Athens for good reason. Tied to a famous myth, this archaeological site fascinates due to the captivating insights into the Minoan Civilisation, also dubbed as the earliest European settlement. Knossos was purported to be the very labyrinth that imprisoned…
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Museum of Ancient Greek Technology (Crete)
Most people already know of Ancient Greece’s monumental contribution to mankind in terms of philosophy, arts, language, mathematics and politics just to name a few. As a nerd who is more linguistically gifted and into arts and history, science was never my thing but during my latest vacation in the Hellenic Republic, I stumbled upon…
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Tropical : Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America
This exhibition explores the fascinating parallelism between Southeast Asia and Latin America in our mutual common identity and shared aspirations. The aftermath of colonialism for us that culminated in artistic heroes on both sides of the world challenging the narrative and resulting in the building a sense of special fellowship. Offering more than two hundred…
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Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Madrid)
During my recent escapade to Madrid, I made it a priority to visit the three main museums also known as the Golden Triangle which is made up of the museums that are the most representative of Art in Spain. I say that I had to make it a priority because there was another distraction awaiting…
