Treasure Palaces

In this exuberant celebration of the world s museums, great and small, revered writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes, Neil Gaiman, andtell us about their favorite museums, including the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York, the Mus e Rodin in Paris, and Tate Modern in London These essays, collected from the pages of The Economist s Intelligent Life magazine, reveal the special hold that some museums have over us all.In his ode to the Museum of Anthropology in Xalapa, Mexico, the great novelist and essayist Carlos Fuentes writes, Museums, like lovers, can lose their charms But the next time can always be the first time William Boyd visits the Leopold Museum in Vienna a shrine to his favorite artist, Egon Schiele, whom Boyd first discovered on a postcard as a University student In front of her favorite Rodins, Allison Pearson recalls a traumatic episode she suffered at the hands of a schoolteacher following a trip to the Mus e in Paris Neil Gaiman admires the fantastic world depicted in British outsider artist Richard Dadd s The Fairy Feller s Master Stroke, a tiny painting that also decorated the foldout cover of a Queen album, housed in the Victorian room of Tate Britain s Pre Raphaelite collection Ann Patchett fondly revisits Harvard University s Museum of Natural History which she discovered at 19, while in the throes of summer romance with a biology student named Jack In Search of the Originals is a treasure trove of wonders, a tribute to the diversity and power of the museums, the safe keepers of our world s most extraordinary artifacts, and an intimate look into the deeply personal reveries we fall into when before great art. Best Download [ Treasure Palaces ] author [ Maggie Fergusson ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Have you ever taken a vacation and made sure to include a visit to a place or site that was mentioned in a book you read I know I can t be the only one Over the years I ve managed to cross a few things off my bucket list of places to visit The Gardner Museum in Boston, The Cloisters, the Library, the Met and Central Park in NYC, The Art Institute in Chicago, and The Louvre and Versailles in Paris yes museums and galleries seem to be the theme of prominence My travel bucket list just got Have you ever taken a vacation and made sure to include a visit to a place or site that was mentioned in a book you read I know I can t be the only one Over the years I ve managed to cross a few things off my bucket list of places to visit The Gardner Museum in Boston, The Cloisters, the Library, the Met and Central Park in NYC, The Art Institute in Chicago, and The Louvre and Versailles in Paris yes museums and galleries seem to be the theme of prominence My travel bucket list just got a whole lot longer ...In a further attempt to clear out my toppling unsolicited TBR pile, I finally picked up Treasure Palaces edited by Maggie Fergusson last month This is a series of essays by authors writing about the museums they treasure and it was published in December 2016.Originally published as a series in Intelligent Life called Authors on Museums , writers were asked to return to a museum that had played a significant role in their life and write about the experience.Maggie Fergusson took over the commis In a further attempt to clear out my toppling unsolicited TBR pile, I finally picked up Treasure Palaces edited by Maggie Fergusson last month This is a series of essays by authors writing about the museums they treasure and it was published in December 2016.Originally published as a series in Intelligent Life called Authors on Museums , writers were asked to return to a museum that had played a significant role in their life and write about the experience.Maggie Fergusson took over the commissioning of the series after its establishment by Tim de Lisle, and at the end of the series a total of 38 essays had been published Here Fergusson has curated the best 24, and I enjoyed reading them A particular highlight for me was Tim Winton s ...Perfect to read one chapter per night before bed.For anyone who loves museums of all kinds, any kind Uneven of course Allison Pearson s snotty, flippant take on the Musee Rodin was particularly irritating Julian Barnes s elegiac visit to Sibelius s house was deeply touching, as was Michael Morpurgo s trudge through Ypres s tribute to Flanders fields The writers heavily skewed British muse pun intended on the effects of a specific piece of art, how their feelings about museums have evolved over a lifetime, how a certain museum or artist For anyone who loves museums of all kinds, any kind Uneven of course Allison Pearson s snotty, flippant take on the Musee Rodin was particularly irritating Julian Barnes s elegiac visit to Sibelius s house was deeply touching, as was Michael Morpurgo s trudge through Ypres s tribute to Flanders fields The writers heavily skewed British muse pun intended on the effects of a specific piece of art, how their feelings about muse...I liked this collection, although it s missing the photos that went with the columns originally I haven t been to most of the museums, although a few of these are tempting I can make due with a description of ...Would have been four stars if there had been images of some of the objects talked about included.Interesting articles on favourite museums galleries originally published in the Economist s Intelligent Life colour supplement.Like any of these things, some areinteresting than others Did love the article on the...A delightful little book in which various authors pick favorite museums most are small and unknown although the Prado and the MFA make the list and objects within them that are special to them Gave me some good tips on places that I might want to visit.so you like to read, and the occasional museum is interesting as well Well here you go reviews of their favorite museums by some pretty good wordsmiths I picked this up because Roddy Doyle provided one of the essays I both found museums I d like to visit as wel...Treasure Palace is a book about museums It s a collection of essays from the lifestyle magazine of The Economist Group The magazine invites famous writers to write for anything personal about a museum There is no restriction on the contents This theme is conceived by one of the editor in The Economist They invite many writers and have published many articles for a period The current literary editor Maggie Fergusson selects 24 articles she believes the most representative or excellent The Treasure Palace is a book about museums It s a collection of essays from the lifestyle magazine of The Economist Group The magazine invites famous writers to write for anything personal about a museum There is no restriction on the contents This theme is conceived by one of the editor in The Economist They invite many writers and have published many articles for a period The current literary editor Maggie Fergusson selects 24 articles she believes the most representative or excellent The result is this delicate anthology.I bought the hardback book during a bargain The design is graceful It appropriately reflects the theme very much The contents are pretty good overall as I find each article brings the museums alive There is a hand drawn picture at the start of each chapter Most of the museums here are less well known These writers avoid the clich like British Museum which is filled with descriptions already They choose those that are not well known to visitors yet fu...These essays are varied and variable I bet you could use this book for a kind of personality experiment Give it to three people and ask them to note down which essays museums they liked, just a simple thumbs up or thumbs down I bet you d get three different sets of responses.Here s me, and where I might like to go visiting, with special favourites asterisked.YESSESRoddy DoyleLower East Side Tenement Museum, NYAllison PearsonMus e Rodin, ParisMargaret DrabbleMuseo dell opificio delle pietre du These essays are varied and variable I bet you could use this book for a kind of personality experiment Give it to three people and ask them to note down which essays museums they liked, just a simple thumbs up or thumbs down I bet you d get three different sets of responses.Here s me, and where I might like to go visiting, with special favourites asterisked.YESSESRoddy DoyleLower East Side Tenement Museum, NYAllison PearsonMus e Rodin, ParisMargaret DrabbleMuseo dell opificio delle pietre dure, Florence Ali Smith Villa S Michele, CapriJacqueline WilsonMus e de la poup e, Paris John Burnside Ensorhuis, OstendMatthew...This unusual and satisfying survey delights with short essays written by fine writers talking about their favorite museums Roddy Doyle leads with a look on the wonderful Lower East Side Tenement Museum, following which are astute, witty, and, often especially in the case of John Burnside , personally revealing pieces on a range of museums including many not commonly covered, such as Wordsworth s Dove Cottage, the National Museum of Afghanistan, Villa San Michele in Capri, In Flanders Field Mus This unusual and satisfying survey delights with short essays written by fine writers talking about their favorite museums Roddy Doyle leads with a look on the wonderful Lower East Side Tenement Museum, following which are astute, witty, and, often especially in the case of John Burnside , personally revealing pieces on a range of museums including many not commonly cover...Found this in the nonfiction area of the library I really enjoyed reading about the different museums from around the world Of course I particularly enjoyed reading about the museums I have visited, from the MFA in Boston to mu favorite museum in Paris I have a great deal of travelin...An interesting collection of articles by writers reflecting on their favourite museums These articles first appeared in The Economist I particularly enjoyed the museums that were kind of quirky I have put several of them on my travel list I recently w...Great vignettes about museums well known and less well known While I have had the pleasure of visiting some of them, reading about the others makes me want to get on a plane to see them all Very enjoyable read.

• English
• 05 May 2018
Maggie Fergusson
• Hardcover
• 336 pages
• 1610396804
• Maggie Fergusson
• Treasure Palaces