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  Exhibition Photos: Ai Weiwei

  It's been a while since I've been in an art exhibition. I've missed several that I had intended to visit - including Jani Leinonen's School of Disobedience in Kiasma, which I pass everyday.However, ye...

  25.02.2016 | Kommentteja 1 | Magpie's Feather

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  Lanu Sculpture: Photos

  Olavi Lanu (1925-2015), the great sculptor of Lahti, died last week. We even have slight personal connections: he was born the same year my mother near Viipuri (Vyborg), and his daughters went to the ...

  19.05.2015 | Kommentteja 0 | Magpie's Feather

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  The Night of the Arts 2012

  The Night of the Arts is an annual event of the Helsinki Festival that was arranged for the first time in 1989, and now many towns have a Night of the Arts, even Lahti. Can it be that I have never wri...

  24.08.2012 | Kommentteja 0 | Magpie's Feather

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  Singing Trees

  A new public sculpture has appeared in Helsinki, 13 metres high, by the Music Centre. The sculptor Reijo Hukkanen (b. 1946) was inspired by the classic poem The Pike's Song by Aaro Hellaakoski (1893...

  16.08.2012 | Kommentteja 0 | Magpie's Feather

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  Helsinki Music Centre - A Declaration of Love

   I like Helsinki Music Centre (Musiikkitalo). Time after time it astonishes me with its quiet beauty. It definitely is not the wow architecture that the promoters of Helsinki seem to think desirable...

  29.09.2011 | Kommentteja 0 | Magpie's Feather

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  At a Vernissage

  Last week I unexpectedly received an invitation to the opening of an exhibition of photographs by Atelieri O. Haapala in the Finnish Museum of Photography. I was astonished at the crowds, but it turne...

  27.01.2010 | Kommentteja 0 | Magpie's Feather

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  Lahti, the Ideal Town

  There is a strange tendency among Finnish celebrities to sniff at Lahti - especially if that's where they come from originally (and a surprising number do). Not that the local municipal officials have...

  26.02.2009 | Kommentteja 0 | Magpie's Feather

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  Painters' Union Exhibition

  Yesterday I chose a different goal for my Sunday walk. I went to see the Finnish Painters' Union sales event at the Cable factory. The space itself is quite impressive, as old factory halls often are...

  12.03.2007 | Kommentteja 0 | Magpie's Feather

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