Today a few hours is spent at the Whitney museum New York located in Manhattan. Since this is freezing outside in New York having some quiet, relaxing and warm time in the museum is perfect. This is what the Whitney Museum New York tells about themselves. As the preeminent institution devoted to the art of the United States, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents the full range of twentieth-century and contemporary American art, with a special focus on works by living artists. The Whitney is dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting, and exhibiting American art, and its collection—arguably the finest holding of twentieth-century American art in the world—is the Museum’s key resource. The Museum’s signature exhibition, the Biennial, is the country’s leading survey of the most recent developments in American art. About the Whitney. Ticket bought, glows off and ready to experience some art. The building is designed by architect Renzo Piano.   On this floor works of Frank Stella is displayed. Stella was born in Malden, Massachusetts,[1] to parents of Italian descent. His father was a gynecologist, and his mother was an artistically inclined housewife who attended fashion school and later took up landscape painting.[2] After attending high school at Phillips Academy in […]

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The legion of Honor San Francisco is a fine arts museum located in Lincoln Park, northwest of San Francisco with views over the Golden Gate bridge. The collection at the museum is spanning over 6000 years and also special exhibitions are featured. Breguet: Art and Innovation in Watchmaking was the special exhibit during my visit. From its beginnings in Paris in 1775, Breguet advanced great technical developments such as the self-winding watch, the first wristwatch, the repeating mechanism, and, most notably, the tourbillon—a revolutionary movement that neutralizes the negative effects of gravity on pocket watches. Breguet played a key role in the history of watchmaking, elevating the craft to its zenith by producing finely made watches that were a pleasure to handle and use.The company’s reputation for ingenuity, as well as the reliability and portability of its watches, led to Breguet’s watches being considered objects of great prestige, worn by the powerful and elite in Europe, including Napoleon Bonaparte, Tsar Alexander I, and Queen Victoria. The most famous Breguet timepiece linked to a European monarch is the world-renowned “Marie-Antoinette” pocket watch. This extraordinary piece took 44 years to make and was the most complicated watch of its time. During the […]

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                    Shibuya station early sunday morning, it seems some had a more challenging night than me. Relaxing at the United Club lounge before my flight departs. Thank you for the fun experiences Japan. Doing this and be able to Travel Japan Kanazawa Toyama Tokyo all during just a few days have been so exciting.

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  Shinkansen back to Tokyo Visiting Tokoy tower           The national Sumo stadium              

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