DESIGN ARTS
10.27.09
DESIGN ARTS, Architecture, FILM, International Film, LITERATURE, Fiction, VISUAL ARTS, Pre-20th-Century Art, Byzantine & Early Christian, Ancient Greek Architecture
The last week has been a blur of airplanes, trains, boats and buses, and so my Cultural Diary is most atypical of my normal daily life. Since my four-year-old son was born, I don’t travel as much as I used to, but I decided to carpe the diem and schlep him off to visit a friend in Athens, Greece. So, my Diary happens to include a tourist’s view of Grecian art and architecture, not something that happens every day! Athens is certainly a study in contrasts! Many of its sidewalks are made of marble, which is beautiful but treacherously slippery in a drizzle; the air is filled with exhaust fumes from the traffic that roars through the city, but the streets