Valencia’s Ciudad de las Artes y de las Ciencias The “Mini-City” in Pictures Valencia’s Ciudad de las Artes y de las Ciencias (in the local Valencian Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències) looks like something you’ve never seen before, a dreamlike area sprinkled with the most fantastic architectural creations. The whole complex feels like being brought here from … Read More
The Cube Houses of Rotterdam
If you’ve ever been to both Rotterdam and Amsterdam, you know exactly what we mean with the big contrast between the two cities. While Amsterdam is all cute and traditional in its architecture, Rotterdam is a modern city with a totally different environment and a slightly colder feel to it. The explanation is all to be found in the Second … Read More
Salvador Dali’s Catalonia – A Guide to the Dalinian Triangle
The Dalinian Triangle Salvador Dali’s Universe in Catalonia The ones familiar with Salvador Dali’s surrealistic art may easily get curious about the artist himself, even wishing to get to know this extraordinary man more in depth, an artist who not only got synonymous with surrealistic art in general, but who also transformed his own reality into a surrealistic world. A … Read More
15 Tips To Get More Out Of Your Paris Museum Visits
15 Tips To Get More Out Of Your Paris Museum Visits Do you know this feeling too? You start your research for your weekend trip, open up your internet browser and as soon as you start searching, there are so much fun and interesting events popping up, so much practical information, that you feel kind of overwhelmed and just don’t … Read More
Street Art Corner From Düsseldorf’s Kiefernstrasse
Street Art Corner From Düsseldorf’s Kiefernstrasse I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store, while walking through the Kiefernstrasse in Düsseldorf, Germany. This was not at all what I anticipated, when I first came across this Kiefernstrasse street name, while googling where to find street art in this German city. Of course, I expected some nice street … Read More
La Fondation Louis Vuitton – Paris’ New Contemporary Art Museum
La Fondation Louis Vuitton Paris’ New Contemporary Art Museum One of the newer additions to Paris’ museum landscape is the contemporary art museum La Fondation Louis Vuitton, or simply translated the Louis Vuitton Foundation. The architecture of the modern ship-like building it is housed in is already a good reason to visit it, yet there are many more. We … Read More
How To Spend A Day in Lisbon
How To Spend A Day in Lisbon It happened a few times now, actually almost upon every trip we take. Arriving to a new place – country, city, you name it – and we come to one and the same conclusion over and over again: “you know, it would be really fun to live here”. We’re suckers for the new, … Read More
Must-See Art Exhibitions In The Netherlands 2016
Must-See Art Exhibitions In The Netherlands 2016 With 2016 well on its way and some weeks of hibernation behind us, it’s about time to have a look at what’s going on in terms of art events and exhibitions in The Netherlands this year. As in the previous years there’s a lot being organized in our tiny country again, with famous … Read More
Ghana’s Fantasy Coffins – Bringing Joy To Death
Ghana’s Fantasy Coffins Bringing Joy To Death Now we don’t want to start too dramatic, but we will all have to face it one day, the end of life. Be it the life of our loved ones, that of people we care about, or the end of our own lifes. One day that moment to say goodbye will just come, … Read More
Earth Art – Out To Nature Back To The Gallery
Earth Art – Out To Nature Back To The Gallery ArtSmart Roundtable: On the Topic of ‘Art Concepts’ There is a merit of moving art out from the limitation of the four walls offered by museums and galleries. One benefit of it could be to make art available for a broader audience who would never venture into a gallery or pay the … Read More
Must-See Exhibitions In Rotterdam This Autumn – Winter
Must-See Exhibitions In Rotterdam This Autumn – Winter The city of Rotterdam, being the second largest in The Netherlands, is getting more and more hip and happening in the last couple of years and is in our eyes becoming a serious competitor to Amsterdam, both from a tourist as local point of view. The city has recently even been referred … Read More
‘Keith Haring. The Political Line’ Visits Rotterdam
Keith Haring’s Voice from the Eighties Echoes in our Present Keith Haring. The Political Line. Rotterdam Kunsthal – September 20 2015 to February 7 2016 More than 30 years later Haring’s works return to the city where his international career once took off: in 1982 Rotterdam’s ‘Galerie ‘t Venster’ was the first ever outside the United States to show his work. Now … Read More