Day: June 4, 2023

Post by Ella Laurie Anderson is someone who passed me by. I was never a fan, or not a fan. I was aware of her as a unique artist. Would saying “singularly unique” be redundant? At any rate, I simply didn’t pay much attention.  When we found out the Modern Museum in Stockholm was having…

Post by Grubb. To get to the Moderna Museet this morning,  we crossed a bridge to the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm.  The museum was at the top of a hill next to a sculpture park resembling a modernistic playground. The main exhibit featured Laurie Anderson.  In the early 1980s I covered a Laurie Anderson gig…

Post by Grubb Laurie Anderson’s musings about pilgrimages notwithstanding, I knew where today’s pilgrimage would end up. The film studio facilities in Råsunda, Solna on the outskirts of Stockholm were built in 1920 and subsequently more than 400 Swedish films were shot there. Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal” was shot in the studio and the surrounding…

You are really lucky today. Two days in one post. Saturday, June 3At Millesgården, we shared a virtuous light snack in the museum cafe. A whole avocado cut into large chunks on thick pumpernickel. This was no wimpy Avocado toast. Dinner, we went Danish. Maybe we didn’t get enough in Denmark. Nybroplan Smorrebrod was the…

All over the place… Below, museum hopping. Below that, T-bana hopping

Post by Ella. We posted photos of the sculptures at Millesgårten yesterday (see Grubb’s Sat, June 3, “In the garden of the heroic”) but didn’t post any interiors. This was also the residence of Carl Milles, the sculptor and his wife, Olga, an artist in her own right. The residence was built in 1908 for…