Culture 2024: Round-up

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I saw seven stage plays, incl. 2 pantos.

• The Barber of Seville and The Pirates of Penzance at Wilton's Music Hall;
• Nye at the National Theatre;
• Spirited Away at the ENO;
• The Duchess of Malfi at the Trafalgar Theatre;
• Cinderella at the Arts Theatre;
• and Napoleon at Jermyn Street.)

I went to one music concert. (London African Gospel Choir at the Barbican)

I visited art museums and art galleries at least 20 times, incl. 11  temporary exhibitions.  I visited 16 separate venues in 7 different cities. They were:

• Kulturhistorisches Museum, Rostock
• Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle
• Städtische Galerie, Dresden
• Albertinum, Dresden
• Royal Academy (Entangled Pasts, Angelica Kauffman, Michelangelo's Tondo, Flaming June)
• Kettle's Yard (Issam Kourbaj)
• the Barbican (Unravel; The Imaginary Institution of India:Art 1975-1998)
• National Portrait Gallery (The Time is Always Now)
• Heong Gallery (Issam Kourbaj)
• Ehrenhalle, Museum Burg Linn (Eiserner Georg)
• Städel, Frankfurt am Main
• Fitzwilliam Museum (Paris and Sport 1924, Botticelli, new main galleries, Glenn Ligon)
• Tate Modern (The Expressionists)
• Prinzenpalais Oldenburg (incl. Perspektivenwechsel)
• Landesmuseum Alte Meister, Oldenburg

I saw 2 comedy shows. (The Cryptid Factor at the King's Place in London, and John Finnemore at the Cambridge Junction.)

I saw one opera at the cinema (the Royal Opera's Marriage of Figaro).

I went to one author reading event (Waterstone's Piccadilly).

I visited many public sculptures in Germany during my sabbatical trips:

• Rostock: Margarethe Scheel's public sculptures and reliefs in Rostock
• Dresden: Ilse Plehn's war memorial in the Annenfriedhof; Margarete Moeschke-Poelzig's Mosaikbrunnen
• Stadt Wehlen: Lucie Prussog's relief on the Robert-Sterl-Haus
• Upper Franconia, Naila: Ilse Plehn's Trauernder Krieger
• Upper Franconia, Bad Steben: Kurpark, Skulpturenpfad
• Thuringia: Ebersdorf, Bucha, Göschitz, Taubenpreskeln, Aga - Lisa Simcik-Kroemer's war memorials
• Thuringia: Schloßpark Weimar, Erfurt Cathedral
• Frankfurt am Main: Frauenfriedenskirche
• Esslingen: Südkirche
• Diksmuide, Belgium: Vladslo German War Cemetery, Käthe Kollwitz's war memorial

Highlights:

• Nye, with Michael Sheen
• Spirited Away
• The Cryptid Factor
• Duchess of Malfi
• Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle
• Albertinum, Dresden
• Entangled Pasts
• Prinzenpalais Oldenburg

Plans for 2025:

• more concerts, especially piano concerti with women pianists
• more author events
• a live opera
• keep up with art exhibitions
• one new-to-me cathedral
• a sculpture park or a sculpture trail