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Absolute Classic
Few places can rival Leipzig in eastern Germany for the title of Europe’s ‘City of Music’.
3 March 2024
Our Friends in the North
David White explores the Hauts-de-France region the ‘slow’ way.
17 January 2023
10 December 2020
Works in progress
From the 9th century Book of Kells to a Turner prize-winner*, art in Dublin continues to impress.
9 December 2020
Be an Artful Lodger
After a day of gallery-hopping, you can continue your art experience at some of London’s top residences.
8 December 2020
Bright Future
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.
4 September 2020
Cezanne Country
Home to the artist Picasso called “the father of us all”, Aix-en-Province is a Provencal favourite of art-lovers.
15 May 2020
The Boy is Back in Town
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),
8 March 2020
A Genius Idea
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’.
28 February 2020
OMG! Van Eyck Was Here
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
27 February 2020
Altared images
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
2 February 2020
Made in Marseille
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
26 December 2019
A Platform for a New Art Decade
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.
23 December 2019
Art in Arles
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,
10 December 2019
Rembrandt’s Early Years
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
4 November 2019
A Passion For Oberammergau
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
8 October 2019
“The World’s Stage”
“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
6 October 2019
Sweet 16 in Paris – Top art venues in the city of light
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
3 October 2019
Van Gogh Comes Home
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
22 September 2019
Bavarian Rhapsody
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
16 September 2019
