Jeremy HildrethTag Archives: museums
The problem with first impressions
…is that you don’t know what you don’t know, sometimes, when you’re looking at something.
Take, for example, this scene in Vilnius (where I am delighted to be living for the summer), which I photographed while jogging today.
It is a normal scene, a bit of urban decay, some concrete blight. Very common around here. You might [...]
Tourist Friendliness 101
One hundred and fifty euros for a Russian visa. Nearly six hours waiting to cross the border at Sovetsk/Tilsit. And 134km from there to the city of Kaliningrad/Königsberg.
Königsberg Cathedral is the jewel of what precious little is left here of German architecture — the site the official tourist brochure says to visit first and foremost.
When [...]
Bilbao, Mississippi
Driving from New Orleans to Mobile, I passed this work in progress on the Biloxi waterfront. Directly across from the broad white sand beach and down the main drag from a coming-soon Margaritaville hotel and casino, the construction site really stood out.
No surprise why: it’s an art museum designed by Frank Gehry which was 11 [...]
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