Thursday, 7 May 2009

Timeless Venice ... more Art.





My cousin invited me with her to Venice: such an extraordinary city ... not just parts of it, but as a whole.

Glorious sights are everywhere one looks.













We visited the Guggenheim Museum: Peggy's collection.
I find "Futuristic" Art rather difficult to appreciate. However, we had an expert guide who did assist by explaining the inner journeys into the 20th Century that these artists are protraying.





Yoko Ono visited in 2003 and started a "Wishing Tree" on an Olive Tree growing in the garden.
Just beside where all Peggy's dogs are buried, and she herself.

Most stunning, perhaps, was the scene, from the roof of the Stucky Hilton, of a cruise ship gently manoevering through the canal out to the sea.