We’re having children later in life, which (hopefully) means our bank balances are more handsome. The outcome: a lot of money to spend on our kids.
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Hotels make for attractive literary backdrops because they present the opportunity for chance encounters, overheard conversations, and intimate and awkward interactions.
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The characters who polished shoes, poured wine and plumped pillows were a fascinating subject for one French artist, whose portraits are a window into 1920s Parisian society.
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Seoul’s pay-by-the-hour motels may traditionally be aimed at hook-ups but they’re now exploiting a niche for short-term accommodation of a more salubrious variety.
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Daimon Brewery has been running since the early 19th century and yet its current president isn’t afraid of trying new things.
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From spidery graffiti to awe-inspiring murals, urban art has long played a role in the regeneration of this city. We brush up on the public art scene and its key players.
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Venice’s trade relationship with Byzantium and Cairo brought silk, spices and a melange of exotic cultural influences you can see today – if you know where to look.
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Hanging in the city’s many museums and churches, Caravaggio’s canvases shine an unfiltered light on life – paupers and prostitutes included – in 17th-century Rome.
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Copenhagen isn’t all sweetness and light. Behind the sky-high happiness levels the clouds are a much darker shade and on TV this beautiful city turns into a an entirely different beast.
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Matthew Girling’s job sounds simple: raise Bonhams’ profile and carry the business forward into the 21st century. In reality, heading up one of the world’s largest auction houses of fine art and antiques is no mean feat.
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Being competitive is vital if you’re opening a restaurant in well-fed Manhattan and that’s certainly the case when it comes to restaurateur Thomas Carter and chef Ignacio Mattos.
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It’s hard to think of anywhere other than Paris where the art of simply observing street life would be so valued. Here it’s a subculture, an intellectual pursuit and an artistic contribution to the life of the city.
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The cosmos collided in Mary Katrantzou’s spring/summer 2016 collection, which referenced exploration – and chaos. At the end of the runway, a vast mirror provided a view of the models from the back as well as the front.
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“She’s been to space since last season,” explained Anderson about his spring/summer 2016 collection. In typical J.W. Anderson fashion, the theme was as forward-thinking and daring as ever.
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A self-taught poet and painter who died of AIDS in 1988, David Robilliard was a darling of the underground scene in London the 1980s.
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‘Sixteenth-century Korean art in some ways can be likened to a jigsaw puzzle with most of the pieces missing,’ says Shawn Eichman, Curator of Asian Art. ‘Every new piece that is found provides a greater context for all of the other pieces.’
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The Florence and Herbert Irving Asian Wing at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, is home to one of the most extensive and comprehensive collections of Asian art in the West.
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Saatchi is bringing together artists from two continents that used to be united, exploring the playful works that obscure – and highlight – the conflicts faced by their modern societies.
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They used to call pre-modern Korea ‘the Hermit Kingdom’. The name no longer applies, yet the country’s cultural and artistic traditions remain relatively unknown in the West.
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Never before has a retrospective of the father of British pop art explored so intricately every twist and turn of the artist’s life and complex mind.
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