Nov 27, 2009

We had spent the whole day at the Pergamon Museum which is on Museum Island in Berlin.  World class.  After we were done we strolled down the street and bumped into Kunsthaus Tacheles.  The polar opposite of the prim and proper Pergamon.  Grungy, counter-culture, free flowing outdoor art space and indoor gallery. A collective of artists have taken over this...

Jun 6, 2009

Tlaquepaque means “the best of everything” and pronounced Tla-keh-pah-key.  It was originally conceived as an artist community and is now a Sedona landmark where you can lazily explore art galleries and gift stores under sycamore trees that have been there since the `70s. I’m not a shopper but I am a lover of art.  And that’s what I...

May 11, 2009

John Paul Getty, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, (by the way… I really like people from Minnesota… but I digress), was one of the first people in the world with a fortune worth over 1 billion dollars.  His family was in oil.  He did what all rich sons do,  and went to good schools – USC, then Berkeley, and then graduated from Magelen...