California, Oregon, Washington Launch Enhanced Website To Help Tourists Navigate Regions Affected By Wildfires
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State tourism organizations in California, Oregon, and Washington have introduced an enhanced website to help travelers navigate wildfire affected regions. These efforts are the result of a year-old collaboration between the three states, with the format
Top Honor for Sahapedia's India Heritage Walks
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Sahapedia’s India Heritage Walks Project has been conferred with the prestigious Grand Award 2019 given by Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA). What makes the award more special is the fact that Sahapedia is one of only four organizations bestowed with tToronto Biennial’s Susannah Rosenstock on the Best of Canada’s Global City
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Toronto, situated by the magnificent Lake Ontario, is not just the most populous city of Canada but also one of its most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities. As an important destination for immigrants from all over the world, coupled with its own history oA Tour of New Cultural Sites on Unesco World Heritage List
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Statistics compiled by a variety of agencies show that the number of people traveling all over the world has only risen over the years. That’s due to a variety of factors, the chief being disposable income and of course, curiosity (not necessarily in that oFlorence Guillier Bernard on the Charms of Paris
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Florence Guillier Bernard, a true Parisienne, loves her city tenderly as is evident from the loving care with which she shares the best way to enjoy it. Founder of the design gallery Maison Parisienne, she is going to present a wide selection of works from heExploring Maastricht During TEFAF
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Erik de Jong, chief executive of the Museum aan het Vrijthof, has been gearing up for a busy time as The European Fine Arts Festival (TEFAF) in Maastricht opens and runs through March 24. The fair is one of the most important in Europe and its gravitational pDiscovering Dubai
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Art Dubai has played a key role in putting the United Arab Emirates on the map as a global art destination. The 2019 edition of the fair, March 20-23 at Madinat Jumeirah, has sections dedicated to Contemporary and Modern art, plus a new section, Bawwaba, “gMaking the Most of Maastricht with Astrid Bonnier
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TEFAF MAASTRICHT has long distinguished itself as the unrivalled destination art fair. This year TEFAF implemented a more transparent selection procedure, which has resulted in a number of new dealers being invited to take part in the fair. Of the 279 exhibitThe Armory and the Big Apple
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The Armory Show debuted as a platform for dealers to exhibit artists in New York in 1994. Fast forward 25 years (and weigh anchor at Manhattan’s far west Piers 90, 92 and 94): the 20th and 21st-century art fair has ballooned in scale and features galleriesThe Many Pleasures of Madrid
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For its 38th edition, ARCOmadrid (February 27-March 3) will draw 203 galleries from 30 countries worldwide, attracting new participants like Meyer Riegger from Germany, Rodeo from England, and Edward Tyler Nahem from the US.Over two-thirds of the galleries arSun, Beaches and Art in Cape Town
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Laura Vincenti is the director of the Investec Cape Town Art Fair (February 15 – 17), now in its seventh edition. She says that Cape Town is the place to be for all art practitioners and connoisseurs as it gives access to the artistic production taking placShanghai Native Weiwei Wang on the Biennale and her City
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For its 12th edition, the Shanghai Biennale has christened itself “Pro-regress — Art in an Age of Historical Ambivalence,” pointedly expressing its skeptical outlook.The premise is an extension of the 2015 Venice Biennale curated by Okwui Enwezor, whicRotterdam with Anne van der Zwaag of OBJECT Design Fair
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Object, a design fair held in the industrial HAKA building in Rotterdam, attracts collectors, professionals and “other designminded people.” Running February 8-10 this year, this platform for limitededitions and new projects stems from a by-invitation selFounder of Zonamaco Fairs on Mexico City and its Art Scene
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Mexico City, the largest metropolis in North America, is sinking, as much as one meter a year, but it’s reputation as an art capitol continues to skyrocket.ZONAMACO, founded in 2002 by Zelika Garcia, has done more than its part to draw international attentiThe director of Photo LA on What she Loves About her Hometown
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Photo LA returns for its 27th year as the longest-running photographic art exposition on the West Coast, and this year it’s in a new home, the Barker Hangar. With soaring vaulted ceilings and arched steel trusses, the 35,000-square-foot former airplane hangArt in the hub of Banking and Diplomacy
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As a haven for banking and NGOs, Geneva sometimes gets a bad rap for being a bit staid and very expensive. But the city’s lovely setting favors those who love the outdoors and its fine art scene is growing. On that last point, in late January art lovers wilThe Best of Brussels with BRAFA’s Beatrix Bourdon
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Beatrix Bourdon, the managing director of the BRAFA Art Fair, is not native to Brussels, but she has adopted the city as her own, and her enthusiasm for its charms and for BRAFA is infectious.BRAFA, one of the world’s oldest art fairs and the one that arrivKim Martindale on LA’s Evolving Art Scene
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Originally from Southern California, Kim Martindale has, from the spirited age of 16, organized art shows around the American West.But he’s also an artist in his own right and someone who has developed varied interests during a nomadic life. Martindale hasA Fair Debut in Taipei
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Magnus Renfrew is opening doors in Asia. In 2007, he founded and directed Art HK: Hong Kong International Art Fair, which helped position Hong Kong as the center of the art market in Asia and was later acquired by Art Basel. Now, Renfrew might be doing the saSan Francisco with Susan Swig of FOG Design+Art
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Susan Swig, one of the organizers of FOG Design+Art, was born in San Francisco and loves her hometown. As a member of the fair’s steering committee, she is also responsible for its programming.The sixth edition of FOG, opening January 17, will celebrate thFor the Love of London
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For Sarah Monk, director of the London Art Fair (Jan 16-20), now in its 31st year, the city is the cultural capital of the world, a fascinating window on the art world, and her home for the past 23 years. Her position at the fair gives her a unique perspectivWandering In Istanbul
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Kerimcan Guleryuz says his goal is to “do what is necessary.” For now, that means “an open-door policy,” he says, “which is not how most galleries in Turkey operate.”A veteran of the Istanbul arts scene, Guleryuz has spent decades running alternatConnecting to History in Krakow
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For New Year’s Eve, the Paris gallery owner Anne-Sarah Benichou will visit Krakow with her family, her sister and mother. It is first of all a homecoming for her because of her Polish origins, and moreover a journey into the history of Eastern Europe, whicThe Best Skiing Holidays This Season
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As a child and young adult, I’ve experienced skiing in most of the French ones (and you’ll find a couple of my favorites here). But I’ve been daydreaming about the world’s other amazing slopes, especially when my friends at my favorite ski shop (La HaThe Best of Goa This Season
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There are as many must-do Goa itineraries as the number of friends who have “done” this holiday destination on the western coast of India. And to say nothing of the tailor-made trips on offer on travel portals.But the one and only itinerary that works besMiami At Night, Done Like The Locals Do
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In the public imagination, all of Miami leads a life of glamour and luxury. Between the beaches and late-night dance clubs, all hours of the day can be spent indulging one’s whims.In early December, hundreds of gallerists, artists, collectors, descend uponMiami, Beyond the Hype
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For lovers of art, the needle on the compass is turning inexorably toward 25.76º N 80.19ºW. That’s Miami, already buzzing with activity for the most glamorous fair of all — the Art Basel Miami Beach (December 6 – 9) — and nearly a dozen other associWalter Gehlen, Director of Art Düsseldorf, on the City’s Unique Cultural Scene
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At Art Dusseldorf, more than half of the participating galleries represent Germany and the Benelux countries. The fair mixes regional pride — catering explicitly to collectors within the territory — with a global appeal for those interested in DusseldorfVU' Gallerist Caroline Bénichou on Her Favorite Spots in Paris
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Agence VU’ was founded in Paris in 1986, forking off from the French daily newspaper Liberation and named in honor of the iconic publication VU (the first weekly to feature photo essays, which served as an important precursor to magazines like Life and LookFlorian Wupperfeld on Why Culture is its Own Vertical in the Tourism Industry
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Florian Wupperfeld vividly remembers his first flight to New York: He was 10 years old, his father dropped him off at the airport, and he had to wear a special child’s tag strapped around his neck. Today, travel is Wupperfeld’s bread and butter. He is thNew York: Pick Your Spots
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When I first moved to New York three years ago, my first goal, before landing a job or anything like that, was to find my “spots.”There are many spots to be found, such as a bar, cafe, or park. But some spots are very specific to New York, places that simParis in Focus
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Following the Second World War, four photographers — Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, George Rodger and David Seymour — started a cooperative that remains iconic to this day: the Magnum Photos agency. Mixing journalistic coverage of worldwide news andThe Salon Art + Design’s Jill Bokor on Top Picks of Her Hometown
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THE PARK AVENUE Armory was completed in 1881 and was intended as “both a military facility and a social club.” Like many historic buildings, it has since been converted into a cultural hub that boasts a robust set of art exhibitions, fairs, and performancA Neighborhood Guide to Three Art Institutions in Chicago
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Chicago is a city of neighborhoods. Each street can seem like a microcosm: a surviving corner of the Old World, infused with different cultural traditions. This sense of diversity is further enhanced by Chicago’s architectural history: after the Great FireMaya Allison of NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery on Why She Loves This City
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Maya Allison is the Founding Director and Chief Curator of the NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery. She comes from a curatorial background in academic museums, notably the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University. In 2017, her NYUAD exhibition “But We CannoAchille Salvagni, a New Participant at PAD London, Explains What he Loves About This City
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London, like New York and Paris, is so well-known and so high on the wish list of travelers that it almost seems unlikely you could find something new about it. Yet, every visitor has his own unique version of London, which makes it worth a fresh discovRenger van den Heuvel of viennacontemporary on what makes his adopted city so special
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Viennacontemporary is an art fair that is pretty different from the high-speed jazzy acts in New York, London, Paris or Miami. That’s because of the unique character of the city of Vienna that is big and classy yet slow enough for a creative soul to connec
