<Excerpt from New York Offbeat Walks: Upper West Side> Now start to walk along Riverside Drive. In the last few years of the 19th century, the Drive failed to attract many very wealthy residents, yet remained out of reach of middle class residents. However, a number of mansions were built, soon followed by upscale apartment blocks—by 1910 there were 24 ... Read More »
Celebrate Chronicles of Old Boston with author Charles Bahne, June 13, at 6 P.M. at the historic Old South Meeting House. Charlie returns to the Old South to share stories from his latest guidebook, which features 29 chapters on the Puritans, patriots and politicians who shaped the “City on a Hill” plus eight waiting tours. Whether you were born and ... Read More »
Prix Pictet, the prestigious photography award, launched today at the world’s foremost photography festival Les Rencontres d’Arles. The announcement for this year’s theme, Growth, will be held tonight in Arles at the Théâtre Antique. Since its launch in 2008 by the Geneva-based private bank Pictet & Cie, the Prix Pictet has become the world’s leading prize in photography and sustainability. ... Read More »
We’ve gone on and on both on this blog and in our recently released “ART + TRAVEL EUROPE: Step into The Lives of Five Famous Painters” about Vincent Van Gogh’s troubled but productive time in Arles on the western edge of the Provence region of southern France that spanned from early 1888 to mid 1889. But Van Gogh was ... Read More »
Elizabeth II: The Sovereign and the Bohemian The Secrets Behind Britain’s Royal Portraits Read More »
Discover incredible, little-known royal dramas spanning the colorful history of the United Kingdom through treasured portraits like Hans Holbein’s Henry VIII, Anthony van Dyck’s Charles I, Thomas Lawrence’s George IV, Lucian Freud’s Elizabeth II, and more. This informative book is sumptuously illustrated, includes family trees and a timeline, and features four Royal London Walking Tours with maps. Lust, Lies and ... Read More »
Author John Baxter presents another fascinating story to add to his latest Museyon title French Riviera and Its Artists: Art, Literature, Love, and Life on the Côte d’Azur. Enjoy this special promotional chapter about the photographer Jacques-Henri Lartigue! In 1962, a placid white-haired Frenchman of sixty-nine wandered into the Manhattan offices of photography agent Charles Rado. With him was a ... Read More »
Discover the fascinating history of Chicago through 24 dramatic, fact-filled, humorous true stories about the events and colorful characters that make up Chicago’s history. From Potawatomi Indians, to the reviled Al Capone to the esteemed Oprah Winfrey and President Barack Obama, author and tour guide Adam Selzer outlines the history of the city, from the Great Fire of 1871, famous ... Read More »
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