Tag: “Art”

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  1. Intersection for the Arts

    INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS is San Francisco's oldest alternative art space and provides a place where provocative ideas, diverse art forms, artists and audiences can intersect one another. At Intersection, experimentation and risk are possible, debate and critical inquiry are embraced, community is essential, resources and experience are democratized, and today's issues are thrashed about in the heat and immediacy of live art.

  2. Guggenheim Museum, NY

    This 'small from the outside-big from the inside Museum', designed by Frank Lloyd Wright contains beautiful art from as well contemporary artists as the old masters.

    Due to the circular architecture the exhibited art is seen in a continuous flow walking down or up the 'spiral'.

  3. Casa Batllo

    Casa Batlló, located at Passeig de Gracía is one of the great masterpieces of Antoni Gaudi, an architect who also created La Sagrada Familia, La Pedrera and some other great pieces of architecture in Barcelona. Once in Barcelona, one shouldn't miss it.

  4. Hotel Albion

    Hotel Albion was built in 1840 and designed by the Milanese Sculptor Ignazio Villa.

    This unique example of neo-gothic architecture was originally a school of sculpture.

  5. Font Magica, Barcelona

    The Font Magica is located at the entrance to the Catolonia National Museum of Art in Barcelona, Spain. The fountains were renovated, along with the museum, at the time of the Barcelona Olympics, which also took place in Parc de Montjuic.

  6. Plaça del Rei

    Every Friday in spring and autumn some hundred people team up at Plaça del Rei to celebrate one of Barcelona's best-kept secret parties; a gathering of dance and upbeat folk songs played by musicians with traditional instruments in a medieval square.

    On these evenings it breathes tradition and magic.

  7. Oaxacan Art

    Oaxaca is one of the largest and poorest states of Mexico, however one of the most colorful and creative in the form of folk art known as Oaxacan Wood Carvings. The wood carvings are called Alebrijes, and are carved by the Zapotec Indians.

  8. The Livery

  9. Golden Gate Bridge

    The Golden Gate Bridge is a world-famous suspension bridge completed in 1937. It is part of US 101, and it connects the City of San Francisco to Marin County and the rest of the northern California coast.

    The natural air conditioning system that San Francisco's fog provides engulfs the Golden Gate bridge most afternoons, providing very dramatic temperature changes, and leaving the tourists running to the shops to buy more clothes.

  10. Signoria Square