Quiet billionaire’s Victorian art collection loaned to Leighton House

Many of the works in Juan Antonio Pérez Simón’s collection were last seen in the UK in the 1890s at the Royal Academy

A cultural stop on Venice’s Grand Canal. For Your Eyes Only.

For Your Eyes Only: A Private Collection, from Mannerism to Surrealism. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, one of the world’s most reputable museums for 20th Century European and American art, extends its collection by offering “For Your Eyes Only: A Private Collection, from Mannerism to Surrealism“. This summer exhibition housed in its founder’s former home on … Read more

RHS Chelsea Flower Show in full bloom

This year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show brought to London plants from every corner of the world mixing high fashion and horticulture. Glamorous as gets the gardening, The Chelsea Flower Show is a signals the start of summer. The highlights of 2014 edition include Hugo Bugg’s RBC Waterscape garden, the First World War-inspired garden created by … Read more

“I Feel Fine,” an exhibition of Harry Benson’s Beatles photos at the George V

  A Beatles photo exhibit at Four Seasons Hotel Georges V traces link between the luxury Parisian hotel and the iconic band. The Beatles “I Feel Fine” photo exhibit marks the 50th anniversary of the band’s historic stay at the hotel. Georges V played a role in some incredible pieces of music history. When the … Read more

Why New York’s Metropolitan museum is leader of the free world of art

The Met, all set to rebuild its modern wing, mixes Rembrandts with Pollocks to create an unrivalled cocktail of past and present. Why can’t British art museums be as open-minded?