Art & Travel – ARTMAG https://artmag.co.uk all the Arts in Scotland Fri, 15 Mar 2024 18:41:52 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://artmag.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/artmag-logo-2023-150.png Art & Travel – ARTMAG https://artmag.co.uk 32 32 Where Art & Travel Come Together https://artmag.co.uk/where-art-travel-come-together/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 08:00:45 +0000 https://artmag.co.uk/?p=43854 Love art? Love travel? Then you’ll love ArtandTravelGuide.com, your guide to 600+ galleries in 70+ cities in 20+ countries – and counting!

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]]> Absolute Classic https://artmag.co.uk/absolute-classic/ Sun, 03 Mar 2024 23:30:00 +0000 https://artmag.co.uk/?p=47453 Few places can rival Leipzig in eastern Germany for the title of Europe's 'City of Music'.

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]]> Our Friends in the North https://artmag.co.uk/our-friends-in-the-north/ Tue, 17 Jan 2023 11:10:24 +0000 https://artmag.co.uk/?p=41394 David White explores the Hauts-de-France region the ‘slow’ way.

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]]> Best of Barca https://artmag.co.uk/best-of-barca-2/ Tue, 22 Dec 2020 17:08:27 +0000 http://artmag.co.uk/?p=28430 The capital of Catalonia is a great art destination.

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]]> The Grand Tour https://artmag.co.uk/the-grand-tour/ Thu, 10 Dec 2020 10:27:35 +0000 http://artmag.co.uk/?p=28292 Art museums from every genre and era border Venice’s Grand Canal.

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]]> Works in progress https://artmag.co.uk/works-in-progress/ Wed, 09 Dec 2020 11:33:18 +0000 http://artmag.co.uk/?p=28232 From the 9th century Book of Kells to a Turner prize-winner*, art in Dublin continues to impress.

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]]> Be an Artful Lodger https://artmag.co.uk/be-an-artful-lodger/ Tue, 08 Dec 2020 11:45:21 +0000 http://artmag.co.uk/?p=28193 After a day of gallery-hopping, you can continue your art experience at some of London’s top residences.

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]]> Bright Future https://artmag.co.uk/bright-future/ Thu, 03 Sep 2020 23:00:39 +0000 http://artmag.co.uk/?p=28148 Exhibitions dedicated to Artemisia Gentileschi, the Impressionists, J.M.W. Turner, Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman and others put a shine on the London gallery scene.

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]]> French Renaissance https://artmag.co.uk/french-renaissance/ Thu, 20 Aug 2020 23:00:43 +0000 http://artmag.co.uk/?p=27910 How Nantes was reborn through culture.

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]]> Swiss Delight https://artmag.co.uk/swiss-delight/ Mon, 20 Jul 2020 23:00:22 +0000 http://artmag.co.uk/?p=27691 For an art-filled city break, you can bank on Zurich.

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]]> Cezanne Country https://artmag.co.uk/cezanne-country-ii/ Thu, 14 May 2020 23:00:36 +0000 http://artmag.co.uk/cezanne-country-copy/ Home to the artist Picasso called “the father of us all”, Aix-en-Province is a Provencal favourite of art-lovers.

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]]> The Boy is Back in Town https://artmag.co.uk/the-boy-is-back-in-town/ Sun, 08 Mar 2020 17:45:31 +0000 https://artmag.co.uk/?p=21057 Bonn lost its most famous son to the allure of Vienna. Now Bonn is taking him back. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was born in Bonn and spent the first 22 years of his life there. A child prodigy (he played the organ at morning mass aged ten and published his first piano sonatas at twelve), […]

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]]> A Genius Idea https://artmag.co.uk/a-genius-idea/ Fri, 28 Feb 2020 16:36:21 +0000 https://artmag.co.uk/?p=19990 The unique artistry of Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Antoni Gaudí and Pablo Casals took inspiration from the landscape far south of Barcelona, inspiring art and gastronomic adventures in Catalonia's 'Landscape of Geniuses'.

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]]> OMG! Van Eyck Was Here https://artmag.co.uk/omg-van-eyck-was-here/ Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:53:54 +0000 https://artmag.co.uk/?p=20796 The Belgian city of Gent has begun a year-long celebration of the Flemish Old Master. Showing at the Fine Arts Museum Gent (known by the Flemish acronym MSK) until April 30, Van Eyck – An Optical Revolution is the largest ever gathering of the artist’s works, featuring 13 of the 23 works confidently attributed to […]

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]]> Altared images https://artmag.co.uk/altared-images/ Sun, 02 Feb 2020 21:51:20 +0000 https://artmag.co.uk/?p=20036 The Belgian city of Gent is celebrating the restoration of the most famous artwork by one of the greatest Flemish Masters. The Fine Arts Museum Gent (known by the Flemish acronym MSK), Belgium’s oldest art museum, is hosting the largest exhibition ever staged of works by the 15th century artist Jan Van Eyck. Van Eyck […]

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]]> Made in Marseille https://artmag.co.uk/made-in-marseille/ Thu, 26 Dec 2019 14:33:56 +0000 https://artmag.co.uk/?p=19347 This sweeping view shows MUCEM in the foreground with its footbridge to Fort St Jean, while the harbour entrance behind is overlooked by the Notre-Dame de la Garde basilica. Photo: Yoan Navarro France’s oldest city was born around 600BC as the Greek trading post of Massalia. Through the centuries it became a Roman city, an […]

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]]> A Platform for a New Art Decade https://artmag.co.uk/lausanne-switzerland-a-platform-for-the-new-art-decade/ Mon, 23 Dec 2019 14:19:17 +0000 https://artmag.co.uk/?p=19377 With a prosperous and cultured air, the town of Lausanne on the Swiss shores of Lake Geneva is looking to its railway heritage to carry its art and cultural offer forward into the next decade.

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]]> Art in Arles https://artmag.co.uk/art-in-arles/ Tue, 10 Dec 2019 10:35:59 +0000 https://artmag.co.uk/?p=19113 From Greek trading post to Roman colony to early Christian metropolis to rich agricultural centre from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance to the capital of the Camargue at the head of the Rhone delta, Arles is one of the jewels of Provence. A stroll through Arles’ historic town centre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, […]

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]]> Rembrandt’s Early Years https://artmag.co.uk/rembrandts-early-years/ Mon, 04 Nov 2019 11:26:21 +0000 https://artmag.co.uk/?p=18483 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century was a period of great wealth for Holland, then known as the Dutch Republic, when trade with countries all over the world blossomed. Cities which were sending ships to Asia, Africa and the Americas were among the richest in […]

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]]> A Passion For Oberammergau https://artmag.co.uk/a-passion-for-bavaria/ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 12:37:17 +0000 https://artmag.co.uk/?p=18121 Rarely can such a small town (population around 5,500) have captured the world’s attention like Oberammergau in the Bavarian Alps, where every ten years an extraordinary piece of religious pageantry draws visitors from around the globe. Oberammergau (Ober = Upper, Ammer = water, Gau = district) is a pretty cluster of giftshop–lined streets which thrive […]

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]]> “The World’s Stage” https://artmag.co.uk/the-worlds-stage/ Sun, 06 Oct 2019 14:16:13 +0000 https://artmag.co.uk/?p=18046 “Welcome to Salzburg, birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.” The flight attendant’s announcement left no doubt as to whose town this was, as the aircraft touched down on an emerald green plain (an ancient lake bed) dotted with cuckoo clock chalets and cradled by a shark’s jaw of jagged Alpine peaks. Mozart’s name runs through Salzburg’s […]

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]]> Sweet 16 in Paris – Top art venues in the city of light https://artmag.co.uk/sweet-16-in-paris/ Thu, 03 Oct 2019 14:52:39 +0000 https://artmag.co.uk/?p=17939 The brainchild of Bernard Arnault, chairman of the luxury brand conglomerate LVMH (Louis Vuitton, Dior, Sephora, Dom Perignon, Givenchy et al) and France’s wealthiest man, the Louis Vuitton Foundation seems to float like a giant, glass-sailed regatta on its cascading basin of water on the edge of Bois de Boulogne. Louis Vuitton Foundation A 21st […]

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]]> Van Gogh Comes Home https://artmag.co.uk/van-gogh-comes-home/ Sun, 22 Sep 2019 19:25:13 +0000 https://artmag.co.uk/?p=17742 Towns across the southern Dutch province of Brabant, where Vincent Van Gogh was born, have joined forces in a new programme entitled Van Gogh Brabant to tell the story of his life from childhood to his artistic awakening, while a special exhibition sets out to dispel the image of Van Gogh as an anti-social, tortured […]

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]]> Bavarian Rhapsody https://artmag.co.uk/bavarian-rhapsody/ Mon, 16 Sep 2019 20:32:20 +0000 https://artmag.co.uk/?p=17555 ORIENTATION Germany’s third largest after Berlin and Hamburg, Munich has been voted the one most Germans would prefer to live in. An extensive, Italian-influenced building programme led by King Ludwig I of Bavaria in the 19th century earned it the moniker of the “northernmost Italian city”. Post-was reconstruction has been aesthetically more successful than in […]

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