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- Sep 27, 2020
Searching for the holy grail
TALLINN My 5 best coffees in Tallinn It seems the world over that art and culture is packaged for us along with two elements that are “essential for life”. Every time we visit a national gallery or museum, there will always be a gift shop and a café to greet us before we leave. The former provides us with essential mementos as proof that we visited, for example, the Vello Vinn exhibition (recently at KUMU), while the latter provides sustenance in the form of caffeinated bever
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- Sep 20, 2020
Location scouting by the sea
TALLINN 12 – 30 September 2020 Vabaduse Gallery, Vabaduse väljak 8 On Tuesday, I walked past Vabaduse gallery and then, remembering that someone had recommended its current exhibition, went back and was pleasantly surprised to see it was photography by Eve Kiiler. Eve studied interior architecture in the 1980s and then spent much of the 90s organising a legendary (albeit short-lived) biennale of contemporary art on the island of Saaremaa. Read more about that here. Since then
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- Sep 20, 2020
Like stones in flowing water
TALLINN 11.09 – 8.11.2020 Two painters and a ceramicist. The other exhibition I saw this week is a group show called Like stones in flowing water at Tallinn City Gallery curated by Tamara Luuk. Two painters (Naima Neidre and Tiiu Pallo-Vaik) and a ceramicist (Ingrid Allik) share the space at Tallinn City Gallery and rarely do we see a group show as cohesive. In fact, if the supporting information (wall texts etc.) were taken away some might think at first glance that this was
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