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PARIS — This Saturday is the eighth annual European Night of Museums, and as night falls 3,000 European museums will be outdoing themselves to show off their collections in the most inventive ways possible. With the support of UNESCO, the Council of Europe, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, and the International Council...
HONG KONG — ART HK kicks off this week and the Harbor City is girding its loins. You might think that the 266 participating dealers at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) would be enough to keep the art crowd busy, but the city’s commercial galleries, art and educational institutions, and auction houses certainly...
What better way to compliment Palm Springs’s desert terrain than with boldly hued overnight accommodations? That’s what New York-based Stamberg Aferiat Architecture did when conceptualizing the rainbow color scheme of the newly opened Saguaro Palm Springs, a 245-guest room boutique hotel located in the Coachella Valley.Originally...
This month Art Cologne returns to the Rhineland’s cultural capital, home to more than
30 museums, dozens of galleries, and the city’s landmark Gothic cathedral.GOART COLOGNEWHEN: April 18−22WHERE: Hall 11
of the Cologne Exhibition CenterHIGHLIGHTS: Around 200 galleries — including the local Hammelehle und Ahrens, Beijing’s White Space...
Louis Vuitton. Gucci. Dior. Chanel. Fendi. Giorgio Armani. Cartier. Only the most luxurious boutiques line Paris’s glamorous Avenue Montaigne. The shops are taking things one decadent step further this weekend with their participation in “Promenade pour un Objet d’Exception,” a stroll featuring artworks and special objects at each...
Imagine: You're out on the town in Paris, perhaps knocking back a few too many glasses of Bordeaux, when, all of a sudden, a sad-eyed clown taps you on the shoulder and starts a mime performance called "The Rite of Sleep." No, you aren't dreaming, this person is not the fruit of your (slightly) inebriated imagination, nor even a...
Sure, there are the sparkling blue waters, white sand beaches, and stingray tours, but Grand Cayman also has a thriving art scene. Thanks to a tight-knit art community and the recent opening of its new National Gallery, the Caribbean island is having a creative boom.First stop is the Sandon Feat Gallery (Da Vinci Centre Building, 7 Mile...
Uruguay’s contemporary art scene, like the country itself, isn’t exactly huge. This makes the often-overlooked Latin American nation, located between Argentina and Brazil like the hinge on a giant arm, the sort of place where a couple of motivated collectors can really make an impact.Alex and Carrie Vik have done just that. An...
With a vital concentration of artists, galleries, museums, and collectors, New York remains America’s art capital. Each year as spring comes to the Big Apple, so too do Gotham’s important contemporary art fairs, the Armory Show and the ADAA Art Show. GOTHE ARMORY SHOWWHEN: March 8−11WHERE: Piers 92 and...
For over 25 years London’s Saatchi Gallery has produced the city’s most popular exhibitions: a 1985 Andy Warhol show, the unforgettable 1992 Damien Hirst spectacle, and last year’s group sculpture show featuring works by Folkert de Jong, John Baldessari, and David Altmejd. Now you can sleep in...
