Skift Global Forum 2015: Learning Is the New Luxury In the Experience Economy


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21c Museum Hotels answers mainstream demand for cultural, local and educational travel by adding to the quality of artistic discourse in mainstream America.

Alice Gray Stites will speak about how learning is becoming the new luxury at the Skift Global Forum on October 14 and 15 in Brooklyn, New York. See the complete list of amazing speakers and topics at this year’s event. “Hybridity: The New Frontier” is an art exhibition at 21c Museum Hotel Louisville exploring the confluence of the organic natural environment and the advance of manufactured technoculture. The paintings, photographs, sculptures and videos are created by a collection of domestic and international artists who blur the line between tech and humanity. According to 21c Museum Hotels: “Influenced by Romanticism and Surrealism, science and commerce, these artists envision how the dreams and detritus of the industrial era have generated the promise and peril of the digital age.” No matter what you think of contemporary art, the themes behind exhibitions like Hybridity are relevant to everyone to some degree, with the power to connect art lovers and casual o