Posts written by: EGe

Antalya Museum, August 2020

Antalya Museum is one of Turkey's largest museums, with 13 exhibition halls and an open air gallery. The collection illuminates the history of the Mediterranean and Pamphylia regions of Anatolia dating from the Paleolithic Age to Ottoman times. There are halls not to be missed such as: THE HALL OF GODS & THE HALL OF EMPERORS ... We visited the museum during…

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, September 2019

Do Ho Suh: The Spaces in Between May 10, 2018 - It was a nice tip from Mohammed that made us visit the Stanford University Campus. There was also this amazing museum at the campus called: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts. There was a Rodin sculpture exhibition at the garden that captured my attention then I…

The Broad Museum, September 2019

Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors 01 January 2018 - 31 October 2021 Here we are at Broad Museum! The admission is free but you need to book it beforehand as they accept limited visitors each day. There is a special art work that you need to get your name written and get in line for. It is "Infinity Mirrored Room -The…

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, September 2019

Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again May 19–September 2, 2019 We have made it to this exhibition of Andy Warhol on the very last day. I am glad we were able to see it in the end. I had seen some Warhol work in Ludwig Museum Köln & Hamburger Bahnhof Museum of Contemporary Art in Berlin before, but…

Suç ve Ceza

İşte o an... Rus Edebiyatı klasiklerime Suç ve Ceza ile devam ettim. 3 hafta içerisinde de romanı bitirdim. Epey sürükleyici ve rahat okunan bir kitap. Zaten genel anlamda zor okunan bir Rus klasiği hatırlamıyorum. Sadece Bulgakov'un Usta ve Margarita'sı epey iddialıydı.Olay, üniversitedeki etik derslerinde de karşımıza örnek olarak çıkabilecek bir durumun bir varyasyonu üzerine inşa edilmiş. Ya da daha somut…

Aşk çiçeğim vs Me dedique a perderte

Bugün Flo ile sohbet ederken: "Aşk Bebeğim" diye şarkı var mı, kesin vardır dedi, birden aklıma "Aşk Çiçeğim" geldi. 2000lerin unutulmaz Arabesk kokan Türkçe pop şarkısı. Sonra bir baktım ben arada kaçırmışım şarkı 2015 gibi yine hit olmuş; bambaşka kişiler tekrardan seslendirmişler. (bkz. Oktay Gürtürk 2015, aynı sene Bahtiyar Özdemir ve Aysun Taşçeşme ikilisi de şarkıyı viral yapmış internette) Bu…

Kaiserliche Wagenburg Wien, August 2019

(Imperial Carriage Museum Vienna) One of the museums in the Schönbrunn Palace Campus :) Here you can see the some ceremonial dresses of the famous couple Elisabeth & Franz Joseph. Not to mention Empress Elisabeth's waist was 51cm!!! Schwarzes Hofkleid der Kaiserin Elisabeth Imperial Gala WagenBlack hearse, 1876-77

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

A longgg read... I do not remember when I bought these books of Thomas Hardy. May be even back in uni? I guess yes, there used to be Pandora Bookstore in the campus. I remember there were two books, that were packed together from Penguin Classics. Now years later, I told myself I need to give them a go. So…

Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, August 2019

I visited the Upper Belvedere Palace on my birthday, and seeing / witnessing "The Kiss" from Gustav Klimt was a birthday gift for me :) This Baroque palace has 800 years of art history - with masterpieces by Klimt, Schiele, Monet and van Gogh. Upper Belvedere Built by the famous Baroque architect Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt to be used as…

Leopold Museum, August 2019

So, another stop at museum rally in Vienna. Leopold Museum, with around 6000 artworks, is in the Museumsquarter in Vienna. It has one of the largest collections of modern Austrian art focusing on the second half of the nineteenth century and subsequent Modernism, containing artists such as Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka and Richard Gerstl. The works are showing the gradual transformation from…