Unusual facts, news and stories

Check out these creative facts and ideas as they've appeared in the past, the present or the anticipated future. Click here for current today's rather strange and amusing news.

Stay Close

Stay Close to Those Sounds

The sun turns a key in a lock each day
As soon as it crawls out of bed.

Light swings open a door
And the many kinds of love rush out
Onto the infinite green field.

Your soul sometimes plays a note
Against the Sky's ear that excites
The birds and planets.

Stay close to any sounds
That make you glad you are alive.

Welcome inspiration at The American Garden Museum

International art galleries and more...

A grand collection of current fine art for sale all over the globe.

Fine Art Galleries

This site is terrific! The author paints one perfectly exquisite small work or art and sells one each day. A Painting A Day

Prestigious collection of art and culture

In order to view this prestigious collection of professional images of art and culture from the world's major museums and collections, you will first need to register (for free)..outstanding source of beauty

Over 35,000 images

National Museum, New Delhi, India

Just trust me on this one

Here's a new and improved way to immerse yourself in beauty online at the Peabody Essex Museum.

Register here at Artscape ...and be amazed

Exquisite Manuscripts

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
-Juan Luis Borges

Before the internet, there were these....
Magical Manuscripts

Creative gifts

The gift of creativity is a blessing.
Trying to be thoughtful and creative when gift giving can be a curse.

For unique gifts, consider online shopping at the European museum shops listed in the sidebars of this blog. The selections are unique and thought-provoking.

and here's a bit more help:
Gentlemen
Ladies
Young children

Encouragement

"How
Did the rose
Ever open its heart

And give to this world
All its
Beauty?

It felt the encouragement of light
Against its
Being,

Otherwise,
We all remain

Too
Frightened.

poem by the Persian poet, Hafiz

Discovering Beauty

A number of international musuems have made their collections available for viewing online.

At the Louvre Musuem, go to Exhibitions, then go to Databases, click on the Atlas Database to be able to view exquisite artwork room by room

At the Rijksmuseum Museum in Amsterdam, go to Masterpieces to see their outstanding collection of Dutch Masters of the Golden Age.

Browse the stunning images at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

Visit the Metropolitan Museum

Vist the Getty Museum

Try Art on Demand from the Tate Gallery in London. Browse artwork and have it framed and delivered to your doorstep.

Top Treasures of Britain The British Museum

At many of the museum sites, you may create an album of your favorite pieces.

Moon ladder

Dream

Walking toward the sea
moon serenely full
Warm wind

Slipping into stillness
of mirrored stars
Phosphorescence following me

Shimmering
Backstroking
To watch my star kicking feet

Moon smiling