Contemporary Art Pavillion on Lopud Island

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Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Art Pavilion is traveling to the Island of Lopud, accompanied by the symposium “Patronage of Space”Your black horizon, a remarkable light installation by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, was commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and inaugurated to great critical acclaim in June 2005 as an official project at the 51st Venice Biennale of Visual Arts. London-based architect David Adjaye was engaged to work in close collaboration with Eliasson and to conceive an environment in which art and architecture were from the outset considered as one, “an interlocking equation”. It is this relationship, one of engagement and response, and … Continue reading →

Dubrovnik to Korcula by Catamaran: At last!

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Korcula Island residents are disappointed but visitors to Dubrovnik will find this new passenger ferry connection a big boon. The Nona Ana fast ferry which has been running visitors (and locals) out to the Elaphiti Islands and Mljet Island for the last few years has added a connection to Korcula this summer. This July and August, the boat will run from Dubrovnik to Sobra and Polace on Mljet Island four days a week and then continue on to Korcula. (See the schedule). With a schedule that leaves Dubrovnik in the morning and returns from Korcula in the afternoon, it’s finally … Continue reading →

Cres Island: The Secret is Out

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One of my very favorite of Croatia’s many idyllic islands is untamed Cres Island. It’s not hard to reach–there are regular ferries from Valbiska on the mainland–but it just feels so remote. Large patches of this long island (shaped like an exclamation point) are pastures, shrubs and pine forests but there are also some wonderful beaches, like Valun. For whatever reason, Cres has been under the radar and largely apart from the great tourist rush to Croatia. No more. The Times has just delivered a glowing write-up of Cres Island under the headlines: “Relaxing Holidays Away from the Beach”; “A … Continue reading →