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

“With fantastic color reproductions and great value for the price, this little gem is as much fun for the armchair traveler as it is for the tourist eager to get a close-up look at Europe’s greatest artists.” – Library Journal: Starred Review Roundup April 2010 for Art + Travel: Europe Read More »

The National Gallery newest exhibition, ‘Edvard Munch: Master Prints,’ has just opened to much acclaim in Washington D.C. The exhibition, which will run through October 31st, features 60 of Munch’s most important prints in order to show “how his persistent experimentation and virtuosic handling of woodcut, lithography, and intaglio endowed different impressions of his primary motifs with new meanings.” Munch’s ... Read More »

We talk a lot on here about places that UNESCO has named World Heritage sites; cities like Petra, Bruges and Colmar. On Monday, the committee that decides which sites are to receive the special designation completed their meeting, adding 21 new sites to the list of already 890 locations. To be considered a UNESCO World Heritage Site, locations must first ... Read More »

Jery Saltz, art critic for New York Magazine and current reality tv star on Bravo’s Work of Art, this week chose his favorite paintings in New York City. A where’s what sampling of some of the best art that NYC has to offer, spanning hundreds of years and a couple of boroughs from Marsden Hartley’s Evening Storm, Schoodic, Maine No. ... Read More »

  York is one of our favorite places in Great Britain to visit and now its already wonderful Yorkshire Museum has reopened after a £2 million facelift that lasted almost a year. The refurbishment is the biggest since the museum first opened its doors in 1830 and was entitled ‘Let the Light In’ due to opening of long shuttered windows ... Read More »

  You may know Ronnie Wood from his legendary bands The Birds, The Jeff Beck Group, The Small Faces and of course The Rolling Stones but few actually know that Wood is a consummate painter. In fact, Wood has been wielding a paintbrush longer than he’s been wielding a guitar, ever since he was twelve. When Wood was a child, ... Read More »

You may have noticed that Italy this year is especially in love with Renaissance painter Caravaggio since this year marks the 400th anniversary of his birth. To add to the Caravaggiomania that is sweeping the country, last week the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano announced in a front page article that it had found a previously undiscovered Caravaggio in the sacristy ... Read More »

  The only ceiling Caravaggio ever painted has been hidden for hundreds of years in a villa in Rome. But now, Princess Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi in an effort to “bring more life” into the crumbling Villa Aurora, which she inhabits with her husband Prince Nicolò Boncompagni Ludovisi, descendent of Popes Gregory XIII and Gregory XV, is on view to the ... Read More »