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Hokusai Museum, Tokyo

In the in centre of Tokyo, you find an very nice museum, the Sumida Hokusai Museum. https://www.instagram.com/p/C5LwsrGyCIW/ Visi...
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21st Century Museum of Art

In Kanazawa, north of Kyoto at the Japanese coast, you will find ninja homes and this stunning museum by architect SANAA. https://www.i...
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Naoshima island

A fantastic island, full of architecture by Tadao Ando and art by Kusuma, Monet and others. More info will follow. https://www.instagr...
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  • Rain inside the Louvre, Abu Dhabi

  • Oscar Niemeyer in Lebanon

  • Petra is Alive!

  • Contemporary Art Museum Bucharest

  • Bernard Frize, Centre Pompidou, Paris

  • Rila monastery, Bulgaria

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Framing the night!🔴🛞 @chongqingmotorbike #c Framing the night!🔴🛞
@chongqingmotorbike 
#chongqing #chongqingmotorbike
I expected scale, i found time 🇨🇳 For almos I expected scale, i found time 🇨🇳

For almost 500 years, this wasn’t history,
it was daily life inside these walls.

You don’t just see the Forbidden City 
you feel how long it must have taken🙏🏻

#forbiddencity #beijingart #chinesearchitecture #treasuregallery
Tian Anmen Sunset Tian Anmen Sunset
Good to be back at @tefaf Here are our favourites🤩

🎨 Rembrandt van Rijn, Seated Male Nude, 1646, etching, Helmut H. Rumbler

🏔️ J. M. W. Turner, The Lauerzersee with the Ruins of Schwanau and the Mythen, Switzerland, c.1840s, watercolour, Stephen Ongpin Fine Art

✂️ Léon Bonnat, Le Barbier nègre à Suez, 1876, oil on canvas, Galerie Alexis Bordes

🌞 Henry Scott Tuke RA RWS, Lovers of the Sun, c.1923, oil on canvas, The Maas Gallery

✒️ Francis Picabia, Untitled, 1923–24, pen and ink on paper, Larkin Erdmann

🫖 Bouke de Vries, Worcester Teapot with Butterflies, 2025, Adrian Sassoon

🪞 Isaac Julien, mirror portrait photograph, 2025, Ron Mandos Gallery

⚔️ Samurai armour, from BUSHIDŌ: A Quiet Current at the Heart of Japanese Culture, year unknown, Shibunkaku 

🌷 Selfie, TEFAF Maastricht Opening Day, 2026
Oh my dear people of Rapa Nui 👯‍♀️🗿Wis Oh my dear people of Rapa Nui 👯‍♀️🗿Wishing you a beautiful Tapati festival this February🥰 @tapatirapanui 

The dances, songs, and gestures, keep carrying memory forward. Thanks for letting tradition stay alive. 🤍This is my sweetest memory of the island🤍

Rapa Nui culture is often cited as a strong example of living Polynesian heritage. Here, language, dance, and ritual are actively practiced, not reconstructed. If you can, do visit! It’s really a living island, not a resort 🌸
A small tip, and the hidden chamber opens💛 Thes A small tip, and the hidden chamber opens💛 These yellow hieroglyphs are from the tomb of Maya and Merit, around 1320 BCE. Excavated and restored by the @rijksmuseumvanoudheden in Leiden

It’s on walking distance from the Pyramid of Djoser. The statues are in Leiden, the surprise is below💛

Book online, stamp your printed tickets at the Saqqara Necropolis entry site together with tickets for Djoser pyramid, Unas pyramid and the temple of Horemheb
Everything is in the right place. Tutankhamen was Everything is in the right place. Tutankhamen was wrapped in three coffins tucked inside four even bigger shrines. 
It’s like matroesika dolls with extra gold.. and I 💛Gold🤩

Everything you see comes from out of ONE grave, from one discovery in 1922. Now at the @grandegyptianmuseum #exhibition #pharaoh #tutankhamun
Architecture meets Art. This painting at the Accad Architecture meets Art. This painting at the Accademia stopped me. It’s Neri di Bicci’s Annunciation from 1464, so decades before Botticelli and almost a century before Bronzino. And still the space feels so fresh, almost modern.

I love how he builds the scene with those clean columns and that tiny framed landscape in the middle. Gabriel and Mary are completely calm, almost quiet, like the whole moment is held in place by the architecture.

Such an early work, but already so confident. A small highlight of the Accademia for me before I met David 💪🏻

#artsayssimon #florence #firenze #galleriedellaccademia #gallerieaccademiafirenze #neridibicci #annunciation #renaissanceart #earlyrenaissance #florenceart
This hidden gem in @palazzomediciriccardi is one y This hidden gem in @palazzomediciriccardi is one you should not skip in Florence. Inside this small chapel, #benozzogozzoli painted the Journey of the Three Magi🏇 in 1459. In the renaissance, the #medici ruled the city, and art historians often read this scene as a political message since the family aligned themselves with the noble Magi

#capelladeimagi #palazzomediciriccardi #firenze #renaissanceart #italytravel #artsayssimon
There’s something deeply human in the work of Mo There’s something deeply human in the work of Mounira Al Solh now @bonnefanten 

🎶 first, listen to the beautiful song in the background 🎶 

Born in Beirut, shaped by displacement, she listens and collaborates, gathering women’s stories from across the Middle East and Europe 🧕🏽👩‍💼👩🏽‍🦰

You see a tent and blue textiles. Here she writes the story of a nurse she knew as a child, a woman who healed the wounded during the Lebanese Civil War, who dared to love beyond borders and expectation. Across the fabric, embroidered images unfold, fragments of myth, plants and animals from Al Solh’s Beirut childhood

At Bonnefanten, her first major solo show in the Netherlands, her art reminds us how survival can look like with color, softness, and songs😚

#mounirahalsolh #bonnefantenmuseum
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