Tag: culture
20 Apr
Located on the ground floor of the glorious Payne Whitney mansion that houses the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, the Albertine is...
8 May
I have a practice which is to think back, every evening, on the three best things I have experienced during the day. And so, of the 21...
15 Nov
Piazza del Duomo An hour and a half by road from Milan is the small, elegant and refined city of Parma. In this foodie age it is probably...
10 May
The most wonderful show, China Through the Looking Glass, has opened at the Met Museum and will be up until August 16. It is a stunning, meandering...
5 Sep
David Walsh opened MONA in 2012 and, in the two years since, it has become the #1 tourist attraction in Tasmania. And that is not because Tasmania...
23 Aug
An architect builds in a particular geography and at a specific moment in history. It may not be our geography or our history and so, to understand...
25 Feb
The child, so near and yet so far, lives in the storybooks of old, now found in the shadow of a skyscraper, retreating from the fingertips of...
4 Sep
When I travel I spend a good deal of time making sense of change – the before and the after, the old and the new, the process of aging....
3 Aug
There is a YouTube segment from NPR’s This American Life that is essential viewing. Rakoff was an essayist, a precise, delicious wordsmith...
9 Jul
I love gamelan music much to my sons’ bemusement. And so it was surprising when Justin sent me the link below. http://tonematrix.audiotool.com/ And...
25 Jun
The Maasai say: You know where you are coming from but not where you are going. Mysteries in the well of the past. The strivings and yearnings,...
18 May
Lustau Winery Jerez Training bull ring – Cortijo de la Sierra Ole! Picador Spanish Horses – Cortijo de la Sierra Arcos...
11 Jul
Willing Foot, Lisa Lindblad’s travel website offering smart, well-designed travel for active and curious travelers, has designed a collection...
14 Oct
Jesse Kornbluth, the eminence grise behind Headbutler, has been writing about culture for decades as an author and magazine journalist. He...
7 Apr
A lovely, art-filled hotel has opened in an important 16th century manor house in Michoacan’s central city of Patzcuaro. Located just half...
26 Jan
I was wrong. Who knows where ones first impressions come from. Oriana Fallaci, a woman I admired hugely for her courage to speak her mind,...
24 Jun
The diversity of cultures is a remarkable thing. The Roman Empire built forums and amphitheatres, colonnaded avenues and temples, some of the...
9 Jun
Just as Syria is a cradle of human culture, its cuisine impressed me as a star of world gastronomy along with Chinese, French or Italian gastronomy. As...
22 Mar
One of my favorite past times, when traveling around the world, is finding – and smiling at – signs. Africa is a great source...
17 Mar
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