Monday, October 02, 2006

Vienna

Last week was spent sipping Cafe Melange and eating a wide variety of desserts in Vienna. My life was changed when I tasted the plum cake at Cafe Sperl . And the hot chocolate at Demel.

Bryan attended the http://www.scope.at/
Scope Conference, while my mother-in-law and I expored Vienna. But we were able to attend the Scope opening keynote speech by Harvard professor of Humanities Homi K. Bhabha. He explored the concepts of cultural respect and the appropriation of the past. What is worth being a part of our cultural heritage. Death and display and curatorial choices and the museum as a condemed site.