Nina’s Blog: Italian Spring with Art – Part 2
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Nina’s Blog: Italian Spring with Art – Part 2

By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout The Venice Biennale is an international art show that alternates between architecture and fine art every other year. 2024 is the year for artworks, and Venice, the city already crowded with thousands of tourists, is now also home to artists, critics, and viewers who have been flocking to the…

Food for the Soul: Global Trade Part V – Europe
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Food for the Soul: Global Trade Part V – Europe

By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Even before Roman soldiers started building and then marching on the roads of the empire, expanding the imperial trade across all the outposts, there were well-worn trading paths that led to Rome. Etruscans, who preceded the Romans on the Italian peninsula, had been trading extensively with northern lands….

Food for the Soul: Global Trade in Art Part 3- Middle East
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Food for the Soul: Global Trade in Art Part 3- Middle East

By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Even if Venice itself is not in the Middle East, until the early 1500s the Venetian empire, built on trade with Asia and the Levant, extended far beyond the city walls, incorporating such lands as Dalmatia and Istria, and reaching practically up to Constantinople. Venice was the gateway…

Food for the Soul: Women Art Exhibitions—Venice and Paris
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Food for the Soul: Women Art Exhibitions—Venice and Paris

By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout In recent years, exhibitions of women’s art have gained so much popularity that almost every week there is a local exhibition somewhere in the world. Predictably, the most ambitious shows tend to be hosted in the global art centers of Paris and Venice. Two important exhibitions focused on…