Articles tagged with: umbria
Umbria through Instagram (and other Android apps)
If you thought Instagram was just a gimmicky way to make crap photos into good ones, think again. I’m a recent convert; very specifically, I converted last week when Kirsten Alana showed a group of us in an iphoneography workshop the amazing things she can do with her iPhone 4s. The take-home message was: if …
Perugia Teatro del Sogno review
Travellers to the Bel Paese often seem to wander the country in a food-and-art-induced dream-like state — and those who have chosen to live here are soon struck by the surreal bureaucracy — so Perugia’s new Teatro del Sogno: da Chagall a Fellini exhibit at the Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria seems fitting in its theme of …
Contemporary Art in Umbria
Rebecca of Brigolante Guest Apartments in Umbria (near Assisi) is on a campaign to convince me that Umbria is cool. On occasion of Contemporary Art Day in Italy (which falls this Saturday October 9, 2010), she’s written this guest post about Contemporary Art in Umbria and suddenly I’m thinking that I may need to take …
See art like a painter does: Bill Patterson’s Spring 2010 workshop
I want to tell you about this opportunity to take a painting class in Italy with a famous painter who just happens to be my friend.
Last year I had the pleasure of having Bill Patterson, contemporary realist painter, as my colleague. Bill’s an amazing painter, a dedicated professor, and more importantly, he is a wonderful …
ArtTrav is a blog about expat life, art, and travel in Italy and Europe. I am Alexandra Korey, a Florence-based art historian turned blogger.
My goal is to help travelers and residents like you experience countries through culture and local living. If it takes geeky, long articles to do that, so be it! 
