"Modern" art

Many of the city's palaces have been converted into permanent or temporary museums...we visited a few, sometimes as much for the cafes and wine as for the art itself. Here is Charlotte at the Peggy Guggenheim museum, waiting for our order to arrive. It hadn't arrived yet.




And the ones dealing with "modern" art and architecture have the effect of bringing the city into a contemporary perspective...so that its role in the world is ongoing as a arbiter of artistic sensibility.

And while the Guggenheim (much of whose original wealth came from a gold mine in Leadville, Colorado....it will take a long time for them to build a museum there) has an excellent collection of paintings and sculpture:







I was more taken with the free exhibits of the Venice Biennial of Architecture which provided a series of temporary venues for examining: Time, Space and Expression...in modern settings...




In the decaying attic of a former palace...



And in a small venue which presented a multiuse project set in Yanikapi, Istanbul...whose rail stations have already been completed and which I used during my time there to catch a ferry.




So the ties between Venice and Constantinople remain and form bookends to this part of my roadtrip.

And you may know that song: "No you can't go back to Constantinople, it's a long time gone, no Constantinople, You can't go back to Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul..."

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Location:Venice