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Pasadena

Get Your Art Fix in Los Angeles

January 16, 2016 by Cornelia Leave a Comment

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Los Angeles, a metropolis that has so much to offer in all kinds of areas, shines in the field of the arts. Be it film, music, literary arts, fine arts, culinary arts – you name it!

The first weekend of 2016 we explored two famous museums in Pasadena in LA County: The Norton Simon Museum and the Huntington Library (which is technically in the neighboring city of San Marino). While the Norton Simon is solely an art museum with a beautiful sculpture garden, the Huntington Library’s extensive grounds are home to a library and a variety of art galleries, which are sprinkled in among the various botanical gardens.

The Norton Simon Museum of Art

Formerly known as the Pasadena Art Museum it combines the private collection of businessmen and philanthropist Norton Simon with the one of the former Pasadena Art Museum. The museum is famous for its remarkable private art collection. Walking towards the entrance of the museum you are greeted by several of Auguste Rodin’s sculptures. “The Thinker”, one of Rodin’s most famous sculpture has its home right here at the museum. Upon entering the museum, the galleries start out to your left and right but one seems to be magically drawn to the sculpture garden that is in the middle and right opposite the entrance.

Therefore, we started out with walking the sculpture garden which is beautifully set around a large pond and features several sculptures by Henry Moore and other sculptors. Before we started touring the garden though, the garden café beckoned us to take a little rest and just sip on a coffee while taking in the serenity of the site.

Adam & Eve by Lucas Cranach, The Elder ca.1500
Adam & Eve by Lucas Cranach, The Elder

Once back inside the museum we took a quick tour of some of the five different galleries. The 14th-17th centuries gallery had some real treasures to offer and we literally soaked up some artworks many of us just know from art history books. If you like Picasso, Braque, Jawlensky, and Klee as well as Sam Francis, Warhol, Lichtenstein and many others, the 20th century gallery will make your heart swell.

 

Huntington Library – Art Galleries, Botanical Gardens and Home of a Gutenberg Bible

Get ready for a day’s worth of walking! The Huntington Library is gorgeous and getting blisters on your feet is totally worth it! Let’s start out with the spectacular botanical gardens. “More than a dozen principal gardens cover 120 acres of the 207-acre ground.”

We set out to visit our favorite two gardens this first Sunday of 2016: The Japanese and the Chinese Garden. Both of them are so beautifully and genuinely designed, every time we just enjoy sticking around for a while, taking in the peaceful scenery from one of the benches at the Japanese garden, or the Chinese pagoda or the peaceful Zen garden.

As you are walking the gardens you happen upon the various galleries. Here you can educate yourself on European art from the 15th to the early 20th century as well as on American art from the late 17th to the mid-20th century.

We skipped the art-viewing part on our visit this time since high on our to-do-list was seeing the original copy of the famous Gutenberg Bible that is on display in the actual Library. Our visitors from Germany were quite surprised to see a Gutenberg Bible right here in California. And what a beautiful copy it is on top of it! We were stunned to see this book from the year 1450 in such perfect condition. The illuminations were so rich in color as having just come of the printing press. Besides the Gutenberg Bible one can admire numerous other historically important documents and books on display.

After having visited the Library and having walked through the Rose Garden we called it a day and pledged to come visit the desert garden another time.

Should you plan on visiting the Huntington Library, come with a lot of time!  You might even want to start out your visit with an English Tea experience at the Rose Garden Tea Room. It’s an event that one needs to make a reservation for ahead of time but I heard it’s totally worth it.

Check out some of SoCal’s great museums for FREE on January 30, 2016.  (Unfortunately neither the Norton Simon nor the Huntington Library has free admission on the day)

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Filed Under: Art & Cinematographie, Attractions & Events, Life in California, Travel Tagged With: Botanic Garden, Chinese Garden, Henry Moore, Horticulture, Huntington Library, Japanese Garden, Los Angeles, Lucas Cranach, Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena

Natural Disasters Ask for Clever Preparedness

December 1, 2011 by Cornelia Leave a Comment

Do you have an emergency back up plan?

As I listened to the news this morning and heard about Pasadena declaring a state of emergency with thousands of people out of power and having to deal with the aftermath of what gusting winds of over 80miles/hour have destroyed, I remembered a New York Times article from last month.

In her article Power Envy, Penelope Green, tells her story about having to cope with a huge power outage caused by snow storms in Connecticut. Luckily, friends of hers who own generators that kicked in right when the power went out, made these freezing winter days with no electricity more endurable. Her family managed to live through this cold week by “generator hopping” and having “…a different sleepover every night.” (see article)

Having read that article a month ago it stayed on my mind since I wanted to mention it on this blog. After all, having a generator in the house might not be such a bad idea in earthquake prone California either. Today’s news about Pasadena was a reminder, even though the culprit of disaster were historically strong Santa Ana winds and no earthquake.

For everyone out there, it sure is a good idea in general to be prepared for whatever natural disaster might happen. The climate is obviously changing all over the planet and we most likely will face many changes over the years to come that we cannot anticipate in all their capacity at this present day.

For my family Pasadena happenings today were a warning to put more thought into disaster preparedness and I definitely will look into purchasing a generator.

A good resource for making a disaster preparedness plan or for reading more about it,  are the following websites:

  • American Red Cross
  • http://www.ready.gov/make-a-plan
  • http://www.earthquakecountry.info/roots/seven_steps.html#secure
  • Disaster Preparedness for seniors and people with disabilities

NEWS about Pasadena & Los Angeleas area:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/01/us-winds-california-idUSTRE7B02GA20111201

http://www.scpr.org/news/2011/12/01/30143/la-wind-storm-resources/

http://www.scpr.org/news/2011/12/01/30140/la-wind-updates-damage-wrought-santa-anas/

http://www.scpr.org/news/2011/12/01/30137/santa-ana-winds-blow-through-southland-toppling-tr/

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_19448134

Filed Under: Life in California, News Tagged With: Disaster preparedness, earthquake, emergency preparedness, Expat in California, Living in California, Pasadena, Santa Ana winds

2011 – The Rose Parade – Tournament of Roses

December 30, 2010 by Cornelia Leave a Comment

Flowers used in a 2009 Rose Parade float, Pasa...
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Every year thousands of people make their way to Pasadena early on the first morning of the new year. Many of them have even spent their New Year‘s Eve out on the streets and settled in to camp over night just to get the perfect spot to watch a grandiose flower spectacle in the morning of New Year’s Day: The Rose Parade in Pasadena – A timeless New Year’s tradition in California.

The Tournament of Roses can look back on a long history. The first one in 1890 drew an audience of 2,000 people. In 2010 about 500,000 out-of-town guests arrived to see the parade. About 51.9 million people in the U.S. watched the 2010 Rose Parade on TV and it is also broadcast worldwide.

This year it is estimated that 700,000 people will be present along the parade route on January 1 for the yearly festivities.

Interested in watching the parade in person? Here is some information to help you plan for it :

  • The parade will start January 1st, 2011 at 8am and last 2 hours.
  • Starting Point is, Green Street & Orange Grove in Pasadena. It then continues North on Orange Grove then East on Colorado Blvd. to Sierra Madre Blvd., then north on Sierra Madre Blvd. to Paloma Street – a total of 5 1/2 miles
  • Of all the floats , 25 entries will receive awards. Viewers can vote for the Viewer’s Choice Award by voting online or for the first time they will be able to vote by texting the keyword FLOAT followed by the Float entry number to 50649
  • More information on the event can be found on the official website: http://www.tournamentofroses.com/pasadena-tournament-of-roses

Happy New Year to all !

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Filed Under: Attractions & Events, Culture, Life in California Tagged With: California, Float (parade), New Year, Pasadena, Pasadena California, Rose Parade, Tournament of Roses Parade

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