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- December 7th, 2009
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ATHENEION has posted a new entry on: Art and Love
Van Gogh’s letters
Vincent van Gogh’s letters – principally addressed to his brother Theo – but also to fellow artists, friends and relatives are unquestionably one of the most articulated, rich and revealing…
- November 30th, 2009
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ATHENEION has posted a new entry on: Art and Love
Trailblazing by The Royal Society
Trailblazing is a marvellous brand new project co-ordinated by Professor Michael Thompson FRS for The Royal Society in order to celebrate its 350 anniversary. Historic events, documents, letters and…
- October 4th, 2009
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ATHENEION has posted a new entry on: Art and Love
Mercedes Sosa: “cantora popular”
Mercedes Sosa, “la cantora popular” symbol of the struggle against dictatorship and civil rights in Argentina, died today at age 74. Unquestionably the greatest Latin American folk music si…
- August 3rd, 2009
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ATHENEION has posted a new entry on: Art and Love
Dreaming with Björn Larsson
Björn Larsson is truly a greatly versatile intellectual: writer, seaman, lecturer, traveller, essayist and journalist. Born in Jönköping, (Sweden), in 1953 since his early boyhood proved to be a…
- July 28th, 2009
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ATHENEION has posted a new entry on: Art and Love
Venezia goes Wi-Fi
Venezia, city of Art and History accepts the modern multimedia challenges in order to broadcast its beauties and fascination. As of July 3rd, Venice has launched its project Cittadinanza Digitale (Dig…
- July 21st, 2009
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ATHENEION has posted a new entry on: Art and Love
J.S. Bach Cantata BWV 30
Johann Sebastian Bach composed three cantata in honour of St. John the Baptist. Cantata 167 (1723) – a tenor aria plus a duet for soprano and alto, with a chorale finale. Cantata 7, (1724), with…
- July 13th, 2009
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ATHENEION has posted a new entry on: Art and Love
Sailing with Bernard Moitessier
Bernard Moitessier (1925-1994) was born in Saigon (at that time French Indochina) son of a French import/export entrepreneur. His family (he had two brothers and one sister) lived in accordance with t…
- July 6th, 2009
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ATHENEION has posted a new entry on: Art and Love
Philip Glass & Robert Mapplethorpe
Further to his Hommage à Allen Ginsberg: a tribute to his friend and one of the greatest American contemporary poets – performed last June 30th at the Odeon Theatre in Lyon – on July 13th Philip…
- July 2nd, 2009
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ATHENEION has posted a new entry on: Art and Love
Musea Brugge
Bruges is a surprising wonderful location for art lovers offering a fantastic and diverse selection of collections ranging from archaeology to modern-art. The Musea Brugge is the institution in charge…
- June 29th, 2009
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ATHENEION has posted a new entry on: Art and Love
Being a writer
Being a poet, a writer, a master of narration, a wizard of words is one of the best endowments a person can be bestowed with. This is gratefully dedicated to those few who can truly convey emotions si…
- June 22nd, 2009
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ATHENEION has posted a new entry on: Art and Love
Musée Magritte
Starting from this late Spring in Brussels Les Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, in cooperation with the Fondation Magritte and the financial institution Groupe Suez will be housing the world…
- June 19th, 2009
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ATHENEION has posted a new entry on: Art and Love
Claudio Magris: Cosmopolitan Intellectual
The Italian writer and Germanist Claudio Magris will be awarded with Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels the most important German cultural honour: “Peace Prize of the German Book Trade” a…
- June 15th, 2009
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Le Grand Curtius
The exposition “From tomorrow to Delvaux” has publicly opened the new exhibition rooms of the “Museum Curtius” with its collections of archaeological, decorative, religious an…
- June 12th, 2009
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Cuban cigars and readings
Books. readings and education have always moved along together, intuitively and actually the growth of a nation’s level of alphabetization relies on the diffusion of press and books, quite as mu…
- April 23rd, 2009
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ATHENEION has posted a new entry on: Art and Love
World Book Day
…in one book there could be more an entire world… Posted in Books, Photos Tagged: Book, Books, Copyright, UNESCO, World Book Day
- April 16th, 2009
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Glade
“In the middle of the forest there is an unexpected glade that can only be found by someone who is lost.” [Tomas Tranströmer] Posted in Dreams, Life, Literature, Photography, Poetry Tagge…
