MUSEYON BOOKS Smart City Guides for Travel, History, Art and Film Lovers

New York based photographer, author and filmmaker Andrew Zuckerman is set to release yet another highly anticipated book entitled Music, a follow-up to his acclaimed Creature and Wisdom. Music explores the the process of making music, the power of music and the experience of writing, producing and performing through interviews with fifty musicians, artists, composers and producers whose genre range ... Read More »

  Musica dei Popoli means music of the people in Italian and every year, for the past 30 years, this music festival has striven to bring folk music from around the world to Florence, into a culture that can be quite insular.   Hosted by the Florentine Center for Folk Traditions, this festival is one of the most popular on ... Read More »

  Will Ferrell and 1,580 of his closest costumed superhero friends united on Saturday, October 2nd and made heroic history as they smashed the current Guinness World Records title for Largest Gathering of Superheroes. The Mega-event was open to caped crusaders everywhere and was hosted by DreamWorks Animation to celebrate the November 5th release of MEGAMIND.   “We just broke ... Read More »

  Best known for holding a treasure trove of World Heritage monuments from the early Christian, Byzantine Era, Ravenna has small town charm packed centuries of history. It’s beauty has inspired poetry and literature so it is fitting that here is where Dante Alighieri (of Dante’s Inferno) was buried in 1321 after being exiled from Florence. Read More »

Famed Indian designer Raghavendra Rathore told The Times of India over the weekend that the work of Johannes Vermeer helped to inspire him to explore the medium of art instead of fashion. “Art to me is a reflection of our times. Every emotion and the rigid landscape of life inspire the need to express thoughts on canvas and everything depends ... Read More »

  All Tomorrow’s Parties have announced a new 4-night mini-festival that’s going to take place in November in between the two weekend events being curated by Godspeed You! Black Emperor (December 3rd-5th) and Belle and Sebastian (Bowlie 2, December 10th-12th).   As a treat, they’ve also put together a special mixtape curated by toy designers Amos, the line up includes: ... Read More »

  Celebrate: Happy October! Though the name might imply that in Munich, they really like to celebrate the month of October, in reality, Oktoberfest ends this weekend so if you are within a thousand mile radius of Bavaria, get thee to Munich for the end of one of the greatest parties on the planet and raise a few liters to ... Read More »

  Fans of Ricky Gervais and his famous 2005-2006 podcast series, which he recorded with his friend and business partner Stephen Merchant and usually revolved around the duo making fun of their producer, Karl Pilkington, should be head over heels about the new British SkyTV show called An Idiot Abroad. In An Idiot Abroad, Gervais and Merchant send Pilkington around ... Read More »