Cat Bauer in Venice
@catbauer
American author based in Venice, Italy since 1998. YA novelist & cultural journalist✨Contributor LUXOS Mag, Design Anth, CNN Travel, etc. Venice Gazette blog -> VeniceGazette.com + CatBauer.com
ALERT! You have until this Friday, August 7 to see the compelling “Archivio” by Dayanita Singh inside the actual Archivio di Stato in Venice-> www.venicegazette.com/2026/04/for-...
It’s the first Sunday of the month, which means all State museums in Italy are free to both residents & tourists. So, which are free this hot day in August in Venice for #DomenicaAlMuseo?->https://www.venicegazette.com/2024/11/6-italian-national-museums-in-venice.html
Venice Yacht Watch - Superyacht Whisper is in the lagoon. Owned by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, apparently Magic Johnson & family are going around
Mary de Rachewiltz died age 101 on July 24 in Brunnenburg Castle, where I first met her in 2008. I was staying in Schloss Rubein. I wrote an essay back then, which I just published: "Remembering Mary de Rachewiltz in Venice & Merano-From Castle to Castle"-> www.venicegazette.com/2026/07/remb...
What a spectacular evening!💕 With the gorgeous “Stars of Tomorrow” of Balletto di Venezia✨ You could feel the magic touch of Sylvie Guillem on each young dancer. And to be surrounded by Tintoretto inside San Rocco… it doesn’t get more beautiful🙏 Grazie, Palazzo Polignac
Two-way traghetto crossing at San Tomà Andata e Ritorno Grand Canal, Venice #RealTime
I’ve written about the Festa del Redentore many times. Here’s a post from 2018 when I was exasperated about sloppy Venice outsider bloggers calling themselves insiders: “Feast of Redentore-Correcting Some Misinformation”-> www.venicegazette.com/2018/07/feas... Photo from 2026
Happy Birthday in heaven, Spence!✨ Spencer Davis, born #OTD July 17, 1939 in Swansea. Photo: Venice, 2003
Detail of the wondrous 11th century floor in the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta on Venice’s island of Torcello☀️ #MosaicMonday
At opening of Pavilion of (Dis)Sense with artist-curator Katia Margolis & Robin Saikia of Vert de Venise Gallery. It seeks to renew Venice as a space where artistic freedom, civic responsibility & dissent remain inseparable. To Aug 7
Random section of the exquisite 12th-century floor in the Basilica of San Marco, Venice #MosaicMonday
This Venetian cat claims the entire bench for her relaxing pleasure at Venice’s civic hospital, where the divine vibes of the ancient Scuola Grande di San Marco still waft through the air #Caturday
July 5 is the 1st Sunday of the month. All State museums in Italy are free! Updated: Tintoretto’s ‘Racconta La Genesi’ is extended to Aug 30 so Venice’s Accademia has still got ‘Adam & Eve Before the Eternal One’ on loan from the Uffizi in Florence. More-> www.venicegazette.com/2024/11/6-it...
Going across town when Andrea Bocelli happens to be in the world’s most beautiful drawing room #Venice
Happy 94th Birthday, Sir Peter Blake! Born #OTD June 25, 1932. The designer of the world's most famous album cover, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band brightened up Venice back in 2010: "The Butterflyman Alights in Venice"-> www.venicegazette.com/2010/10/sir-...
Venice Yacht Watch: Salt yacht in the lagoon, rumored to be owned by Israeli/Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, but that is just gossip
