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MUSEUM FÜR FOTOGRAFIE - HELMUT NEWTON FOUNDATION

A big part of this museum is dedicated to Helmut Newton (1920-2004), a great jet-set photographer who shot stars, models for Vogue/Playboy/..., many mode-shootings and advertising. In the permanent display "Helmut Newotn's private property" there are many biographical pictures of the artist, as well as many of its works that reconstruct its life and its career. There are also short film-documentaries about some shootings that are vvery interesting to discover what is behind a "good" picture (for example a mode-shootin with Claudia Schiffer).
The current exhibition is dedicated to the photographer Alice Springs, which real name is June Newton and was the wife of Helmut. She begun her career  in the early 1970s and concentrate a big part of her work in portraits of famous (like Brigitte Nielsen, Mapplethorpe,...) and less famous people that are very intense.

[S-Bahn Zoologischer Garten, Jebensstrasse2, behind the train station
tue-sun 10°°-18°°, thu 10°°-22°°
euro8/euro4
http://www.helmut-newton.de]

Dos and dont's:
- eat a currywurst&chips [euro2-3]
- eat a döner kebap [euro2.50] (-> as a Turkish friend of mine once said, "in Berlin they're even better than in Istanbul")
- watch out the cycle lane when you walk on a sidewalk, or you'll soon feel as the most hated person of the city

Last weekend I've been to Basel (CH) to visit the Museum Tinguely, which tourn out to be very interesting!
The artist Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) is a famous swiss artist who made machine-sculptures:

The machine sculptures engage in a loud and multi-coloured conversation with the onlooker: Through his works, Jean Tinguely communicates and interacts with the spectator. The machine functions and becomes art. Tinguely’s artworks sparkle with wit, vitality, irony and poetry. Seen against a deeper background, though, they also reveal a feeling for tragicomedy, for the enigmatic and inscrutable. (www.tinguely.ch/en)

He grew up in Basel and then went to Paris, where he became famous. His second wife was the famous artist Niki de Saint-Phalle. Toghether they made many works of art, like the famous fountain Tinguely-StPhalle in Paris' Place Stravinsky, near the Centre Pompidou.
The museum is very impressive: it has specially been made by the swiss architect Mario Botta and it contains many different works of the artist: machines, objects turned into pieces of arts, collaborations with his wife,...It is an interactive museum, where the spectator become part of the whole by starting the "creatures" of Tinguely with buttons.

Actually there is also an Exhibition called Robot Dreams, abour AI and Robotics in a contemporary art concept.

The visit takes 2.5-3 hours
Opening hours: tue-sun 11°°-19°°, monday closed
Price: Adults 15.- , Students&Co. 10.-, Children up to 16 free entry
-> http://www.tinguely.ch/en

...some usefull and essentials infos about me and this blog:
I'm studing political science at the university of Zurich and I love to travel! Since yet I've not been abroad Europe (btw I'm planning a trip to USA next summer), but I've already been in a lot of countries respectively cities of the old continent.
In this blog I'm gonna to advise you with some good adresses and things to do that I've been collecting during my travels,
which include sightseeing, shopping, eat&drink and of course clubs and discos.
Because my current city is Zurich, and my favourtie city is Berlin, you'll find maily posts about those cities, which I know the best :)

I hope to make you discover new great places, don't hesitate to let comments or your own advices!
(in French/German/English/Italian/Spanish)