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Art and culture

Every musical journey opens a window onto the world. Museums, works of art and architecture offer moments of observation, inspiration and connection.

MoMA · New York

The Museum of Modern Art was founded in 1929 and is on West 53rd Street in Manhattan. Its collection brings together modern and contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, film, architecture and design.

During the visit, an unusual piano invited us to see a musical instrument as a work of visual art. Colours, materials and unexpected compositions continue this meeting of music and art.

An unexpected piano encountered at MoMA.
An unexpected piano encountered at MoMA.
Colours and flowers — from the visit to MoMA.
Colours and flowers — from the visit to MoMA.
Water lilies and reflections — from the visit to MoMA.
Water lilies and reflections — from the visit to MoMA.
Objects brought into a new composition — from the visit to MoMA.
Objects brought into a new composition — from the visit to MoMA.

MoMA’s history and collections

clinamen · Céleste Boursier-Mougenot

At Onassis Mandra in Athens, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s clinamen turns water and movement into sound. Floating porcelain bowls meet and create a constantly changing composition: a different experience of listening, where visual art meets music.

clinamen — Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Onassis Mandra.
Sounds from the visit to clinamen, September 2026.

The installation at Onassis Mandra · Explore the artist’s work

Earth Poetica · New York

Beverly Barkat’s globe Earth Poetica transforms plastic waste into art, inviting us to reflect on our relationship with the planet. The artwork and its materials.

Mina in front of Earth Poetica.
Mina in front of Earth Poetica.
Earth Poetica — Beverly Barkat.
Earth Poetica — Beverly Barkat.
Colours and materials inside Earth Poetica.
Colours and materials inside Earth Poetica.

[Music is the universal language of humankind.]

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Outre-Mer

Colours and open horizons

Mina in front of a colourful work of art.
In front of a world full of colour, we learn that beauty begins when we look beyond ourselves.

Oculus · New York

The Oculus and the Manhattan skyline.
The Oculus and the Manhattan skyline.
Light and architecture inside the Oculus.
Light and architecture inside the Oculus.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York

Museum visits, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (The Met), are another part of the journey: images, forms and stories in dialogue with music.

A sculpture of a dancer in a New York museum.
Edgar Degas — The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer · The Met.
A sculpture from the visit to The Met.
A sculpture from the visit to The Met.
A painting from the visit to The Met.
A painting from the visit to The Met.
The fountain outside The Met.
The fountain outside The Met.

56 Leonard Street · Tribeca

At 56 Leonard Street, architecture by Herzog & de Meuron meets a reflective sculpture by Anish Kapoor. About the sculpture.

56 Leonard Street — Herzog & de Meuron.
56 Leonard Street — Herzog & de Meuron.
Anish Kapoor’s reflective sculpture at the base of 56 Leonard Street.
Anish Kapoor’s reflective sculpture at the base of 56 Leonard Street.

On the Brooklyn Bridge

Mina on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge.
Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge.
On the Brooklyn Bridge at dusk.
On the Brooklyn Bridge at dusk.

A moment on the bridge, alongside a passage from Vladimir Mayakovsky’s “Brooklyn Bridge” in Odysseas Elytis’s Greek translation.

…ακολουθώντας κάποιος
τα ηχερά πλέγματα
θα ’βγαινε ίσια στους πρόποδες των άστρων.

Vladimir Mayakovsky, “Brooklyn Bridge” — Greek translation by Odysseas Elytis

At Renoir’s house · Cagnes-sur-Mer

Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s house, Cagnes-sur-Mer.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s house, Cagnes-sur-Mer.
In Renoir’s olive grove.
In Renoir’s olive grove.
Visiting the Renoir house museum.
Visiting the Renoir house museum.
The view from Renoir’s garden.
The view from Renoir’s garden.

Musical heritage · London and Athens

The historic piano, Stradivari viola and harp were photographed at the Royal Academy of Music Museum in London. The piano from Athens is at the Maria Callas Museum.

A historic piano in a museum display.
A historic piano in a museum display.
A viola by Antonio Stradivari.
A viola by Antonio Stradivari.
A historic harp.
A historic harp.
A piano at the Maria Callas Museum.
A piano at the Maria Callas Museum.

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