Diane’s World

Hello world…

SO let’s just say I had quite the weekend.

I kind of realized that my days in this wonderful city are limited, and so I went on a cultural explosion.

Five museums. Yes folks, five.

I will have reviews of all of them in my art blog by the end of the week, but here is the quick overview:

Museum #1: Neue Nationalgalerie (Been here before, but it’s a good collection of 20th Century Art)

Museum #2: Bode Museum (Sculpture particularly from the renaissance. They also have a great big huge coin collection)

Museum #3: Berliner Galerie (The only criteria for art in this museum is that it is artwork that was produced (actually physically made) in Berlin. Oddly enough, my favorite work in this museum was created by an American.)

Museum #4: Käthe Kollowitz Museum (Kollowitz is a female artist who portrayed the hard life of WWI and WWII from the eyes of a woman. Her son and her grandson both died in one of these wars)

Museum #5: Altes Museum (There is a particularly good ancient Egyptian collection that will be there until next year.)

This star of this exhibition is obviously Queen Nefertiti…

but I personally liked the slaughtered cow sculpture:

and I couldn’t help but think of my mother when I saw the cat gods.

But I really do recommend all of these museums to anyone who finds themselves in Berlin.

Anyways…

I’ve also been hanging out with cool people. Here is me and my Japanese friend Hiro:

And my Brazilian friend Paulo:

I also managed to finish another painting. It’s called “Berlin”. I will also write something about it in my art blog by the end of the week.

On Saturday night, my hostess had an Argetinian band over for a party. There were about 10 of them, and they were really really good Tango dancers. It was fun to be a part of this party

And here is my hostess and her boyfriend. I really like them

Yup so it was a busy weekend.

Oh and as I was on my way to the Berliner Galerie, I found this:

It made me a little sad. Someone was having a hard day.

Anyways I was incredibly sick yesterday, and now I’m a little better but not all the way.

I’m going on a day trip to Potsdam this Saturday, and on Friday I’m throwing a birthday party for a good friend of mine (Narja, the Brazilian girl.) So I will report back in a week!