Victoria and Albert Museum’s ‘What is Luxury?’ explores the meaning and the history of luxury

What is Luxury? (25 April – 27 September 2015, a V&A and Crafts Council Exhibition) will interrogate ideas of luxury today. Victoria and Albert Museum asks ‘What is Luxury?‘ and how it relates to our everyday lives in a new exhibition challenging our definitions of what luxury means. “As its title suggests, the exhibition questions … Read more

Space travel: High-altitude balloons to offer world’s most spectacular panorama and life-changing travel experiences

Traveling a high-altitude balloon. Think you can beat this selfie? Imagine traveling to space by balloon, but ditching the free fall for a luxury space cruise with cocktails and Wi-Fi. Which one would you choose? Following the record-breaking 135,908-foot space dive accomplished by Google’s Alan Eustace and the Paragon StratEx team, World View Enterprises, the … Read more

Americans still intrigued by space exploration. The best space-themed attractions in the U.S.

To commemorate the historic Apollo 11 moon landing, TripAdvisor went to its universe of millions of travelers for the best space-themed attractions in the U.S. TripAdvisor announced also its space tourism survey of more than 2,200 U.S. respondents. As we approach the 45th anniversary of the July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, the allure … Read more

Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic. Giving the art ample space to breathe.

Alongside Duchamp, Miró and Mondrian, the American artist Alexander Calder is considered a pioneer of modernist sculpture and one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. His most iconic works, coined mobiles by Marcel Duchamp, are kinetic sculptures in which flat pieces of painted metal connected by wire move delicately in the air, … Read more

Meanwhile…History: The 8th edition of Art Dubai announces one of the most innovative of arts conferences

  8th edition of Art Dubai (taking place March 19-22,) the leading international art fair in the Middle East and South Asia, revealed the full programme and the leading regional platform for cultural debate, and one of the most innovative of arts conferences, worldwide. Taking place March 19-22, the 2014 edition of Art Dubai features … Read more

The history of Miss Dior. The exhibition

“I create so that each and every woman is the most beautiful“. Christian Dior. ‘Miss Dior’ exhibition opening – Grand Palais, Paris.       Miss Dior exhibition opened its doors in the Galerie Courbe at le Grand Palais in Paris. Redecorated for the occasion in Dior’s emblematic gray and white colors, the space welcomed … Read more