Throughout the Georgian era, Bath was second only to London as England’s most fashionable town, notable for its spas and its daily promenade along the Royal Crescent and within Beau Nash’s Assembly Rooms. Fittingly, it was in Bath that the 18th-century painter Thomas Gainsborough became one of most celebrated portraitists of his time. … Read More
Exhibitionist extraordinaire and artist of a thousand faces, Pat Oleszko has been the star of her own show for decades and now she has her own mind-expanding retrospective “Pat Oleszko: Fool Disclosure” at Sculpture Center where it will run through the end of April 2026. What a year for this brilliant, full-hearted artist (she might say “fool-hearted”) whose work will also be a part of the Whitney Biennial 2026. Here’s to a thousand more performances in the years ahead—because Art is Resistance.
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Passalacqua is primo, one of those imaginative flights of fantasy that has become a spellbinding dream world on the shores of Lake Como. Nota bene: you’ll never want to leave. … Read More
In the autumn, when the crowds have thinned along Lake Como, you can hear birdsong as you ascend the Belvedere—and when you return from your morning stroll, you are welcomed into the warm embrace of Grand Hotel Tremezzo where gracious hospitality has reigned for 115 years. … Read More
Milan and Armani are nearly synonymous—and more than ever, in this year of his passing, Armani’s genius is evident throughout the city: at Armani Hotel and Armani Casa where his timeless aesthetic reigns supreme, as well as the Armani exhibition Milano, per amore at Pinacoteca di Brera where a collection of Armani’s creations are brilliantly juxtaposed with the museum’s invaluable collection of paintings and sculptures. … Read More
Opened in 1873 for the Vienna World’s Fair, Palais Hansen was created by Baron Theophil Hansen, the renowned architect who shaped much of Vienna’s famed Ringstrasse. … Read More
It’s not just the lobsters, and trust, there are loads of them in Halifax, but it’s also the incredible bounty from Nova Scotian farms, and the wines from the Annapolis Valley (which has been described as the next Okanagan Valley for its burgeoning wine and food scene), and the remarkable edibles found while foraging the Nova Scotian coastline. … Read More
Whenever my mother was in town and the weather uncooperative, she might say to me, “Shall we go visit our friends at the Frick?” It was her favorite museum in Manhattan, just as it is for so many others—and now the Frick is back, and better than ever in its newly-refurbished home, with an inaugural exhibition featuring a triptych of Vermeer’s Love Letters. … Read More
