Art hotels re-inventing art exhibitions

Small Luxury Hotels of the World’s Art Hotels Re-inventing Art Exhibitions. Hotels are now competing with galleries and museums as an alternative exhibition space and engaging creative directors and curators to help them select works for permanent or temporary exhibitions. With over 520 hotels around the world, Small Luxury Hotels of the WorldTM (SLH) is … Read more

Palermo – The Mecca of The Sport of Polo

Palermo. Not Sicily, but rather a district in the city of Buenos Aires. It is here that the Club Hippico Militar is located. Of two fields, field one is known affecionately as “The Cathedral” to those passionate lovers of polo, Palermo is to polo as Wimbledon is to tennis or St. Andrews is to golf. … Read more

Custom-made: Cate Blanchett in Silhouette Titan Minimal Art

Australian actress Cate Blanchett, the face of the new Georgio Armani fragrance Si, is the new ambassador of Silhouette Eyewear. The Austrian eyewear brand brought two acclaimed icons together to present the new Titan Minimal Art. Photographed in black and white by the iconic German photographer Peter Lindbergh (the fashion photographer of the supermodels like Milla Jovovich, … Read more

New York’s most expensive hotel rooms

Most expensive hotel suite in New York costs $45,000 a night.  A jaw-dropping $40,000—that’s what it will cost visitors to stay overnight in New York City’s most expensive hotel suite this September. NewYorkHotels.org has just published a new report that ranks the 10 costliest hotel suites in Manhattan. In coming up with the rankings, the … Read more

Mary Poppins services on board

Etihad announced the introduction of flight attendant nannies to tuck kiddies into bed. Available on long-haul flights of the United Arab Emirates-based carrier, the fleet of Mary Poppins will calm irritated passengers and will entertain children with hand puppets, origami, art activities, face painting, and games. Identified by bright orange aprons, each Flying Nanny aims … Read more

Guitar hero: Coriolanus goes rock

China’s most controversial director is bringing Shakespeare’s Coriolanus to Edinburgh – with two heavy-metal bands in tow. Andrew Dickson went to Beijing to hear the Bard turned up to 11