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Public Art

-London

On the Wires

Up the stairs, through the arch and you’re on your way to Paris… I like this view of the Chromolocomotion installation that is part of Terrace Wires at St Pancras […]

-Belgium

The Knight Adventurer Reaches Brussels

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza stroll cheerfully through the Place d’Espagne in Brussels.  In the late afternoon sun their so-easily identifiable silhouette reminded me of Picasso’s famous black and white drawing of […]

-Manchester

Is that a Dragon I see above me?

Hanging high above the Northern Quarter, on the corner of Tib Street and Church Street, shines the Tib Street Horn.  This enigmatic, silver sculpture, half dragon and half saxophone, coils around the remains of an […]

-London

Chromolocomotion

-Look Up, Look Down Challenge, Week 35 Every Thursday, I publish a post containing photo(s) taken from above or below, and invite you to join in the challenge by posting your own photos with […]

-Madrid

Calderon Gagged

Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600 — 1681), born and died in Madrid, was the dramatist and poet who succeeded Lope de Vega as the greatest Spanish playwright of the Golden Age.  He is well […]

Public Art

Artists on the Seafront

These two distinguished looking fellows, are two beloved Catalan artists and one-time Sitges residents from the modernist period. Santiago Rusiñol i Prats (1861 – 1931) was a  Barcelona-born painter, poet, collector, cultural […]

Blue Monday

Schooners and Anchors

This unusual relief mural features the 1902 American schooner, the Thomas W. Lawson, named for a Boston millionaire, copper baron, stock-broker and President of the Boston “Bay State Gas Co.  The schooner was based […]