Food for the Soul:  For the Love of Books
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Food for the Soul:  For the Love of Books

ByNina Heyn

By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout In the United States, but not so much in Europe, you can sometimes walk into a beautiful house decorated with paintings and knickknacks but with no books anywhere to be found. The advent of digital media in the form of audiobooks and Kindle readers has accelerated the disappearance…

Food for the Soul: Animal Hunt at Art Institute of Chicago
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Food for the Soul: Animal Hunt at Art Institute of Chicago

ByNina Heyn

By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Comprehensive and large-scope art museums tend to be those created in centuries past, such as the Louvre in the 18th century and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the “Met”) in the 19th century. Their function was to provide the inhabitants of big cities with collections that were educational,…