Category Archives: Art Exhibition

When I visit any specific art exhibition as opposed to just going to a gallery.

Views from Jens’ lens

Posted on November 9, 2023 by Gary

There are two amazing exhibitions currently on at Liljevalchs. One, The Dress Makes the Man, Haute Couture – A New Era, features the collection of fashion of a person called Fredrik Robertsson who not only buys it but wears it … Continue reading →

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Sad and beautiful

Posted on August 17, 2023 by Gary

Karin Broos is an exceptional Swedish artist. She was born in Uppsala and lives in the wonderfully picturesque Värmland. She studied art in the Netherlands, including in ’s-Hertogenbosch, a place I visited for a weekend, back in 2016. As well … Continue reading →

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Typical Amsterdam onions

Posted on April 23, 2023 by Gary

I arrived outside the Rijksmuseum quite early this morning. I had a coffee and settled myself by the tulip pool as more and more people turned up. It was like the Tower of Babel with all the different languages. I … Continue reading →

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Elvis Bach

Posted on April 16, 2023 by Gary

Yvonne Nimar has been many things. Today, though, she was an artist in sculpture and photography. We visited her exhibition, upstairs at Ekebyhov Slott. Her mediums were glass, stone, and clay. Each of her little figures has its own, delicate … Continue reading →

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Swedish women artists

Posted on April 11, 2023 by Gary

In 1910, the association for Swedish women artists was formed. It was called Föreningen Svenska Konstnärinnor and was made up of around 40 artists. It was formed because, at the turn of the twentieth century, only men were allowed to … Continue reading →

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Artfully edumacating myself

Posted on March 9, 2023 by Gary

Mirinda will have to catch the bus into Swedish classes on Saturday so, in order to check out the new bus routes, I had a Stockholm day today. In order to make it more than just a few bus trips … Continue reading →

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Playing piano, on a pontoon, in the middle of an Italian lake

Posted on February 28, 2023 by Gary

Today I was off into Stockholm while Mirinda luxuriated in a Gaz Day with the girls. As for me, I managed to catch an express bus into Gullmarsplan, followed by the t-bana into Centralen in order to take breakfast in … Continue reading →

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Quirky ways of looking at things

Posted on January 24, 2023 by Gary

Isaac Grünewald (1889–1946) was a Swedish artist who married two other Swedish artists – not at the same time – and died in a plane crash near Oslo. He was born in Stockholm and studied in Paris at the Henri Matisse … Continue reading →

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Preventing egress

Posted on March 7, 2022 by Gary

The website went down today. I had a message from JetPack saying it was down from 16:16. This continued with messages telling me it was still down up until 15:00 when a database error stopped any further communication from JetPack. … Continue reading →

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Silly shoes and ball gowns

Posted on November 24, 2021 by Gary

I was sitting in the Southbank Terrace Café drinking a latte and reading. An eccentric looking woman came in and sat at the next table. She emptied the contents of a tote bag on the table and started arranging various … Continue reading →

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