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New Mexico tour peels back layers of artist Georgia O’Keeffe’s private life
DestinationsThe Georgia O’Keeffe Museum will begin offering a “Behind the Scenes Tour” of the artist’s home and studio in Abiquiu, N.M., giving vistors a rare glimpse into her private world. The weekly tour begins June 12. O’Keeffe bought the 5,000-square-foot Spanish Colonial-era compound in 1945 from the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. She then spent the [...]
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Iconic Louvre pyramid painted for first time in controversial exhibit
DestinationsAn Italian artist decorated the Louvre museum’s glass pyramid Wednesday for the first time in the iconic monument’s history, in a protest against capitalism. The artwork, a huge three-looped infinity sign made of mirrors, faces due west onto France’s business district, La Defense. Michelangelo Pistoletto, one of the world’s leading conceptual artists, covered one panel [...]
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Hotels boost business after hooking up with live theatres
RoomsAn innovative breed of hotels is reaping significant benefits from integrating live theater and arts productions into their offerings. These hoteliers are finding that live theater is helping expand the hotel experience and the hotel’s audience. For the Latchis Hotel and Theatre in Brattleboro, Vermont, mixing theater and the arts with hotel operations seemed natural [...]
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum opens after 10 years, $500 million of renovations
DestinationsVincent van Gogh once said that he could sit in front of Rembrandt’s “Jewish Bride” in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum for a fortnight with just a crust of bread to eat. It would be interesting to know what he would have made of the lavishly renovated and remodeled Rijksmuseum, which is reopening after a decade-long restoration — [...]
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Rio de Janiero emerges as Latin America’s burgeoning art hotspot
DestinationsLong a cultural backwater, Rio de Janeiro has taken another leap toward becoming an art hot spot with this week’s opening of a museum built around one of the world’s premier collections of contemporary Latin American art. Casa Daros, a 12,000-square-meter (129,000-square-foot) space in an impeccably renovated 1866 mansion, will house some of the works [...]
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World-renowned street art boosts tourism in London’s creative East End
DestinationsAt one time, tours of London ventured only cautiously beyond the West End and Soho, and certainly no further east than the Tower of London. But recently the East End has established itself firmly on the tourist map, thanks in part to its open-air gallery of international renown – its colourful street art. London’s graffiti [...]
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Scotland takes on Shakespeare to turn Macbeth into tourist draw
DestinationsHe was the Scottish king immortalised in one of William Shakespeare’s plays as a murderous man driven by a lust for power which led him to guilt, madness and an ignominious death by beheading. Now a campaign in Scotland aims to rehabilitate the 11th-century ruler’s tarnished image, arguing that Shakespeare fictionalised the Scot’s reign and [...]
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Cruise-ship “art” purchase leads to lawsuit and retaliatory cruising ban
TransportCruise lines sometimes ban passengers who get drunk, start fights or commit other mayhem. Ware and Lisa Cornell say their vice was buying a couple of lithographs. The Weston, Florida, couple is asking U.S. regulators to force Carnival Corp. to reimburse it $33,100 for lost deposits and legal fees after, they say, the company banned [...]
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Travel ads of the week: British Airways, Expedia, Qatar Airways, and Street2Lab
TransportThis week’s roundup of travel ads are dominated by airlines, but they’ve created four very different ads that showcase their particular brands. TAP is the latest airline to take an original approach to the outdated safety video and Qatar shows a little love for its hub city in Doha. Expedia announces a new product, one [...]
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Visit Norway crowdsources new ad asking tourists to scream in honor of Edvard Munch
DestinationsThe Norwegian tourist board is trying to create the world’s longest virtual scream to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Edvard Munch, one of the country’s best known artists. As a tribute to the artist’s most recognisable work, The Scream, people are being invited to “share their own scream experiences” by uploading them to the Visit [...]
