On Thursday, Venice, Italy, became the first city in the world to charge fees to day tourists just to visit its historic canals and other attractions on peak days. The measure is designed to combat ex...
04.25.2024 business-standard.com , cbsnews.com and 1 sitesExhibition of the week Michelangelo: The Last Decades Passionate and confessional drawings by one of the greatest artists of all time. British Museum, London, from 2 May until 28 July Also showing Urs...
04.26.2024 Theguardian.comI post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers & Je...
04.21.2024 Dailykos.com and 3 sitesSource: City of Leicester PREPARATIONS are under way for one of the world’s most iconic Impressionist paintings to take pride of place at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery from next month. Pierre-Augus...
04.25.2024 Foreignaffairs.co.nz and 1 sitesN ext month, to celebrate its 200th anniversary, the National Gallery in London is dispatching a dozen of its most popular paintings to venues around the UK. Constable's The Hay Wain, for example, is trundling off to Bristol; while the Rokeby Venus by Velázquez will bare all in Liverpool; and Caravaggio's staggering 1601 masterpiece, The Supper at Emmaus, is crossing the Irish Sea to Belfast. What is it about these 12 pictures in particular – which the gallery is describing as its “National Trea...
04.22.2024 Telegraph.co.ukIn our increasingly digital world of artificial intelligence and ubiquitous social media, the skill of artisans practising labour-intensive crafts is a mesmerising thing to witness. This explains why ...
04.27.2024 Scmp.com and 1 sitesIn the Eternal City of Rome in Italy that has existed for three millennia, history crawls from every crevice and crack. From 2, 000-year-old ancient landmarks to elegant 17th-century plazas, all of th...
04.24.2024 Thestar.com.myAn Indonesian melodrama that pays homage to 1960s Bollywood Tears on the edge of the prayer rug directed by Key Mangunsong from a screenplay by Titian Wattimena is the kind of Yashoda-Devaki Krishna-K...
04.25.2024 Timesnownews.com and 1 sites“An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child” is a life-sized painting of a farmer’s wife carrying her sleeping child on her shoulders. It is an intimate slice of life scene expressed by the French painte...
04.21.2024 Theepochtimes.com and 1 sitesBoston, a city steeped in history and brimming with culture, attracts tourists worldwide. As we approach 2024, the city unveils its captivating allure, boasting a plethora of exceptional attractions that will leave an unforgettable mark on visitors. ...
04.23.2024 Nazret.com and 1 sites