Picasso’s muse draws in the crowds at Tate blockbuster
Exhibition focuses on artist’s many portraits of Marie-Thérèse Walter in a pivotal year in his life
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Musical connections: A sneak peak at the Harmonic Hendrix Home Guitar
The music and legacy of Jimi Hendrix – Seattle’s original “West Coast Seattle Boy”— debuted the JOI Guitar’s Harmonic Hendrix Home Guitars series of custom hand-crafted, acoustic guitars. JOI Guitars is a custom luthier shop based on Vancouver Island, BC. Luthier Reuben Forsland is well- known for his respect of traditional building methods, … Read more
The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller review – yours for half a billion
Christie’s, King Street, London
Picasso’s bolshy flower girl is just one of the rare gems to be glimpsed in London before this vast private collection goes under the hammer
LVMH’s support to bring this Renaissance masterpiece back to Louvre
This historic acquisition will bring King François I’s Book of Hours, an outstanding artwork, back to France. Last year, this unique masterpiece, listed as a French National Treasure, has been put up for sale by its London owner. In order to add it to the French national collections, the Louvre initiated a campaign to … Read more
Best travel book of the year: Kapka Kassabova’s Border wins Stanford Dolman award
A timely account of a fraught part of Europe is named Stanford Dolman travel book of the year. Here, one of the judges heralds a master storyteller and gives an overview of the nominees
A whirl through Vienna’s modernist era, 100 years on
Celebrating a century at the heart of the modernist movement, the Austrian capital is putting on quite a show