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Seattle: Things To Do
Seattle is a city in the Puget Sound, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific North West. With a population of approximately 750,000 Seattle is the largest city in both Washington state and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. Seattle is known for its nature and outdoor activities strategically located near the Olympic Mountains, the Cascade Range and the sound. Seattle is home to one of the busiest ports in North America aswell as being home to many tech companies. Seattle is also know for its vibrant music and art scene. The Seattle Underground Tour is a guided underground tour of what was once the city streets…
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Vancouver: Things To Do
Vancouver is a water front city in British Columbia, Canada. With a 675,000 residents is the most populated city in B.C. and the third most populated city in all of Canada. Vancouver is extremely ethnically and linguistically diverse. Vancouver has plans to become the greenest city in the world in the future. Vancouver is known for its historic Gastown neighbourhood, its seafood, its parks and its beaches. Vancouver Art Gallery is an art museum in downtown Vancouver adjacent to Robson Square. The museum was opened to the public in 1931 and moved to its current location in 1983. The building was once the provincial courthouse designed in 1905. Museum of…
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New York City 1938… Frida Kahlo’s First Solo Exhibition
In October 1938, Frida Kahlo traveled to New York City for her first solo exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery, 602 Madison Ave (at 57th St.). The show was held from November 1 – 15. “Closely connected to the Surrealist movement, Levy was responsible for hosting the first solo exhibitions of numerous important artists in this country, including Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dalí, and Lee Miller.” (Roberts, 2009) It was here where Kahlo’s career changed forever. This pivotal point in Kahlo’s career coincided with one of the most tumultuous periods of the 20th century. In 1938 the Nazi’s had invaded Austria in the Anschluss in March and annexed the Sudetenland in…
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Why The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Matters
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari or Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari is a German silent film released in 1920. It is widely considered to be the ultimate piece of German Expressionist cinema and the first horror film. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is also one of the first films to include a plot twist and a framed story. Expressionism was born as a movement within painting largely as a reaction to the rise of realism. The film remains salient over a hundred years after its release do to its exploration of timeless themes such as the nature of authority and responsiblity for ones own actions. Germany was largely isolated from…
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Amsterdam: Things To Do
Amsterdam is a picturesque Northern European city full of canals and canal houses. Amsterdam is both the capital and the most populated city in the Netherlands. The population of the city has been steadily growing in recent years with a current population standing just over 900,000. Amsterdam is famously nicknamed “Venice of the North” due to the large amount of canals and subsequent river boats. The Homomonument memorial in the centre of the city commemorating LGBTQ+ people who were persecuted during World War Two. The Homomonument opened on September 5th, 1987, making it the first monument in the world dedicated to LGBTQ+ people who were persecuted and killed by the…
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Luxembourg City: Things To Do
Luxembourg City is a beautiful, extremely walkable European city with a rapidly growing population of just over 115,000 people. Located in the south of the small country of Luxembourg you will find that neither the capital nor the country as a whole is very touristy. All public transportation is free in the country making Luxembourg the first country to do so and as of writing one other country has followed suite, that being another small Euopean country of Malta. Luxembourg City is one of the capitals of the European Union (along with Brussels, Strasbourg and Frankfurt) and is the home of several E.U. institutions. Luxembourg is known as a very…
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New York City: Where Famous Artist, Actors and Intellectuals Died
Leonard Bernstein announced his retirement from conducting on October 9, 1990. He died on October 14 in his New York apartment at The Dakota, 1 West 72nd Street Manhattan, New York of a heart attack brought on by mesothelioma at the age of 72. Montgomery Clift died at 217 East 61st Street, Manhattan, New York City on July 23, 1966 of a heart attack at the age of 45. Greta Garbo died at The Rogosin Institute in New York Hospital on 15 April 1990 as a result of pneumonia and renal failure, at the age of 84. Rita Hayworth died from complications associated with Alzheimer’s disease after falling into a…
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