Visiting the Brussels Fine Arts Fair is more, than a regular visit to a museum or a gallery to admire the artifacts on display. It is about an experience of floating through epochs and cultures; about the sensation of being a traveler and a theatre spectator at once. From crossing the threshold of the fair, gilded like fairy-tale Sesame from ‘Thousand and one nights’, one enters the dreamy space of artistic creations.
Read more... The Amalienborg Museum in the Rococo-style Amalienborg Palace is a showcase of Danish royal culture, with its costumes, crown jewels and interior design from the Victorian era onwards. Danish life is grounded in a love of nature: many events are held outside year-round, cafés have baskets of fleeces on their terraces even in summer, while museums and galleries bring the outdoors indoors with ingenious light-leeching architecture.
Read more... Music and arts classes have been shown to improve wellbeing and life satisfaction at an older age. Yet formal training does not have the same effect. What is formal training doing wrong?
Read more... The Swiss financial capital is undergoing a cultural boom meaning more to do in downtime and more hotel choice.
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It’s that time of year again when everyone feels the need for a year-end review, rounding up and vetting on their achievements and failures. Though I never understood this, I suppose it’s human nature to count our blessings as we fictitiously mark off our lifespan. What’s more important is that news outlets and magazines all across the globe seize the opportunity to remind viewers and readers what they’ve gone through this past year.
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Read more... Over 125 million European households (EUR 27) had an Internet connection in their home in 2009, according to European Audiovisual Observatory estimates. But are we all equal before the Internet? Or are some of us more equal than others as regards the communication possibilities offered by the web?
Read more... If 10% of car drivers would give up their car for a motorcycle or a scooter, traffic congestion would be reduced by 40%, according to a study performed in one of Belgium’s most congested routes, typical of Europe's densest urban areas.
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