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Anyone going to visit a museum or gallery this Easter week/weekend?
ARTnews has just released its annual list of world museums and galleries by visitor number, for 2025.
There are many European ones in the Top 100 and 6 of the Top 10 are in our continent.
The Louvre is the perennial number 1.Too many people for sure, but there’s a lot to see in there, not just La Gioconda!
Also in the Top 10 there are the Vatican Museums in Rome, the Hermitage in St Petersburg (I guess mostly Russian visitors?), and no fewer than 3 in London… the British Museum, the Tate Modern and the National Gallery.
Those London ones are helped by the fact that they are ‘free’ (donation only).
How do the people of your country think about the public transport in your country? Is it used well? Does it run on time? Are people satisfied with it?
Have a great thursday everyone!
Good morning to all. Yesterday, the sky above Crete became red and the weather was generally shit.
Did anyone else watch the Artemis II launch yesterday? I have seen rocket launches before but still, I will never be not fascinated by them and this one was even more touching than usual. They had some interviews with the astronauts and it was really cool.
Tomorrow we’re going for a short hiking trip. It was a bit hard to find a place to stay since it’s in the middle of nowhere (our camping gear is for biking and it’s too heavy to carry on our back) but with some route modifications it was possible. Let’s hope for good weather. Right now it’s really sunny.
And sadly, it seems to be over for Timmy the whale. They have decided to let nature take its course, and it’s probably for the best.
Few days ago I declared that I’ve been obsessed with Sara Bareilles’ Love Song. And I mean like genuinely obsessed. I’ve been listening to it five to ten times per day. It’s not even that great of a song. It’s good, but not like the best song ever or something. Somehow I keep being drawn to it, though.
On Youtube I found a version of it she performed at the Kennedy Center with an orchestra. It was different, kinda lost the original vibe of the song, but pretty good still. Some parts of the arrangement sounded suspiciously like Caroline Shaw, so I checked the video description and turns out it was arranged by Caroline Shaw.
So I went and listened to Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 voices. I’m very familiar with it, but hadn’t listened to it in a while. And oh my god, I had almost forgotten how incredible it is. Everyone should listen to it. One of the best pieces from the 21st century, one of the best vocal works there is. It’s so interesting, soothing, beautiful, fun, such a great listening experience. The way I felt after listening to it, my mind immediately got flooded with thoughts and ideas about formants and shit, it might have been my escape from the jaws of Sara Bareilles.
Like an hour ago I was walking downtown and my eye was drawn towards [this brick building](https://i.imgur.com/CATj64K.jpeg) that looks like it’s maybe from the very early 20th century, perhaps late 19th. All the windows and doors had arches on them, but it was one particular arch that caught my eye. Well, a stub of an arch.
I wonder what happened there? Did the building have a canopy of some kind next to it with brick arches, which later got demolished, or were they going to build one but then didn’t end up bothering? The stub had like a neat sheet metal cap on at the end of it.
I’ve walked past that building genuinely hundreds of times, never noticed this weird detail.