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Frank Lloyd Wright is probably the best known American architect, with a body of work that has influenced and shaped the course of building in this country. His former home, Taliesin West (pronounced Tally-ehssen) in Scottsdale, Arizona, has become the international headquarters for the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, and is also open for public tours. Taliesin [...]
Countdown to Christmas, and still there’s lots to read about travel everywhere! I take that as a very good sign that maybe a travel gift will be beneath your Christmas tree, in your stocking, whatever is in keeping with your holiday practices and traditions. And if you just don’t feel in the travel spirit, maybe [...]
There are so many great places to see public art, that it’s sometimes easy to pass right by without paying any attention to it. What a mistake! I’ve always enjoyed the Mustangs at Las Colinas, a bronze sculpture of nine wild mustangs that are in the Williams Square in Irving, Texas. Created by wildlife artist [...]
This summer, Taos, New Mexico, celebrates the 40th anniversary of the movie Easy Rider, with its Summer of Love Celebration. For those of you too young to remember Easy Rider, it is one of the iconic movies of the 60’s. It debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1969, and was both a counterculture [...]
Japanese artist Itchiku Kubota’s colorful exhibit of painted kimonos is on the last leg of its US tour, opening today in Canton, Ohio. Each of these beautiful over-sized kimonos took nearly a year to create, and the 40 in the exhibit make up a life’s work. Kubota died in 2003, and his family now carries [...]
One of my favorite museums in Paris was the Musee Rodin in the First Arrondissement. Surrounded by beautiful gardens, this collection of sculptures and other artwork was wonderful. I took the photo of these hands, and don’t even recall what the sculpture was called. For some reason, I found them compelling. Join a group of other [...]
I spent some time today at a blogging conference, and met up with fellow travel-blogger Pam from Nerds Eye View. As is often the case when travel bloggers get to talking, the discussion soon turns to places we’ve been, places we’re going, and places we want to go. Pam is a great photographer (click on [...]
The Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University is the only US stop for a touring Andy Warhol exhibit, “ Other Voices, Other Rooms.” The exhibit opens September 13th, 2008 and runs through February 15th, 2009, and features films, videos, paintings, drawings, prints, wallpaper, installations, objects, seldom heard audio recordings, and extraordinary archival [...]
Some of my favorites artists have works hanging at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and visiting the museum is a great way to spend an afternoon out of the Texas heat and humidity. The Modern, as it is generally called, specializes in post-World War II art, housed in five long pavilions set into [...]
In addition to traveling, Mary Jo likes lingering over a cup of coffee, wandering in a museum, sipping wine at a cafe, enjoying a relaxing massage, and sharing it all with friends and readers.
Her most recent travels were to Portugal and Italy.
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