To wander Vienna during the blue hour at the height of the ball season is to feel as if you have slipped effortlessly into a film by Max Ophüls or Ernst Lubitsch. … Read More
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Raw Spirit Desert Blush
Gloaming. L’heure bleue. That mystical period between daylight and darkness. What photographers call the sweet light has long captured the imaginations of the world’s artists and romantics. Belgian artist Jan Fabre, for example, has focused much of his oeuvre on … Read More
Antwerp’s Lively Lindner Hotel & City Lounge
As might be expected from a city that has the world’s only museum designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Antwerp has numerous exemplary architectural landmarks, including a medieval fortress, the 14th-century Cathedral of Our Lady, the Richard Rogers-designed Law Courts, … Read More
Bill Cunningham’s ‘Facades’ at New-York Historical Society
Anyone who witnessed the documentary Bill Cunningham New York (2010) knows that the veteran New York Times photographer has a treasure trove of photographic evidence of his favorite city and its ongoing evolution. Riding about town on his trusty Schwinn, … Read More
Harmattan by Roads Fragrance
Each year in West Africa, the dry and dusty wintry wind known as the Harmattan blows in from the Sahara, creating a mystical haze not unlike a dense fog. Eyes closed, the air is redolent – and in the case … Read More
An Antwerpen Weekend
This northern Flanders city of half a million residents was once the richest European city – or as locals point out with pride, the “New York of the 16th century,” an economic hub of trade and cosmopolitanism – and diamonds. … Read More
Sweden’s Master Painter Anders Zorn at NY’s National Academy Museum
One of the most successful artists of the Gilded Age, and one of the era’s most favored celebrities, Anders Zorn (1860-1920) was a portraitist of such skill and influence that only John Singer Sargent rivaled Zorn in popularity. The National … Read More
Wales Celebrates Dylan Thomas in New York
Any literary New Yorker worth his or her salt knows that the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas often frequented the White Horse Tavern – although many also mistakenly believe that Thomas died at the well-known Village bar as well. 2014 marks … Read More
