Tagged: arts-and-culture

Greenwich Village Walking Tour: Follow Our Stroll in the Historic NYC Neighborhood

Published December 11, 2024In this walking tour, you'll get a taste of all the varied groups and social movements that shaped New York City's Greenwich Village over the years.But…

Europe in Spring: Where to Go in March, April, and May

Updated December 2, 2024 In March, April, and especially May, some spots in Europe achieve the travel trifecta: pleasant weather, manageable crowds, and reasonable room rates. Other…

The Best Museums in Washington, D.C.

Updated November 1, 2024 Washington, D.C., is home to one of the world's most remarkable collections of museums: the Smithsonian Institution. The "Nation's Attic" preserves and…

Free Museums in Paris: 21 Spots to Appreciate Art and Culture at No Cost

Paris is an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord for culture vultures. But admission fees can start to add up in a city with more than 130 museums, only a few of which could be described as…

Where to Stay for Edinburgh Festivals in 2024 When You Can’t Find a Hotel

Each August, the Scottish city of Edinburgh hosts five—count 'em, five—major arts and culture festivals dedicated to the performing arts, the visual arts, books, and military…

Paris Bookshops, Cafes, and Other Stops to Add to a French Literary Pilgrimage

April 19, 2023 Paris is known as the City of Light, but it could just as aptly be nicknamed the City of Lit.  After all, it's the hometown of writer-stuffed cafés, poet-haunted cobbled…

New Paris Museum Lets You Tour the Time-Capsule Home of a Scandalous Icon

UPDATE, April 18, 2023: This post, originally published December 17, 2021, has been updated with new information. Even before French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg died in 1991,…

Travel Insurance at a Glance

If you're taking an expensive tour or cruise, or if you're buying a vacation with components that won't be refundable if things go wrong (such as a making deposit on a rental home),…

Maybe Beer Goggles Help? Boston's Museum Of Bad Art Reopens in a Craft Brewery

Bringing an artistic vision into reality can easily go sideways, as you’ve probably learned if you’ve ever taken a figure drawing class, attended a sip-and-paint party, or accidentally…

The 10 Best Museums to Learn About Asian American and Pacific Islander History and Culture

August 26, 2022 With the recent spike in anti-Asian hate crimes across the United States, there has never been a more important time to make the Asian American and Pacific Islander…

What to Do in St. Pete, the Florida City That Defies Florida Stereotypes

One of the joys of travel—and one of its imperatives, if you ask us—is finding exceptions to stereotypes. And when it comes to Florida, the Gulf Coast city of St. Petersburg is…

Museums Across the U.S. Offering Free Admission on Museum Day: How to Participate

A date has been set for this year's Museum Day, the annual event during which museums and other cultural centers across the United States offer free admission for one glorious day of…

How to Tour the Prison Where "The Shawshank Redemption" Was Filmed

Maybe you'll never make it to the shores of Zihuatanejo like Andy and Red at the end of The Shawshank Redemption. But hey, you can take a newly launched bus tour of the 1994 prison…

Why Now Is a Great Time to Visit Italy's Most Popular Cities

Rome, Florence, and Venice have signaled that they're ready to welcome visitors again after the pandemic lull—though residents understandably prefer the sort of measured tourism that…

Frommer Guide Flashback: Why Is Barcelona's Sagrada Família Still Under Construction?

The first Frommer’s guidebook, Europe on 5 Dollars a Day by Arthur Frommer, was published in 1957. In our series of Frommer’s flashbacks, we’re revisiting noteworthy places featured in…

Film Great Federico Fellini Gets His Own Museum in Italy

The hometown of acclaimed Italian film director Federico Fellini has opened a lavish new museum dedicated to the auteur responsible for making La Dolce Vita (1960), 8 1/2 (1963), and…

Giant Star Added to the Top of Barcelona’s Still-Unfinished Sagrada Família

Barcelona's La Sagrada Família received a (literally) dazzling new addition this week: a giant, illuminated star on the top of the still-unfinished basilica's second-tallest…

Shopping in Paris: The Most Beautiful Design Stores and Artisan Studios

Paris is easily one of the world's most artistically inspiring cities—and not just because of its architecture, gardens, galleries, culture, cuisine, and je ne sais quoi.   Even the…

Puerto Rico’s Splashy New Entertainment Complex Is Corporate but Cool

If you're the type of traveler who likes to explore local culture, the idea of a multimillion-dollar, "multisensory," "tech-first" entertainment complex with a corporate sponsor in its…

How You Can See the Louvre's Entire Collection Online for Free

All 480,000 or so objects in the collection of the Louvre in Paris have been cataloged online for the first time. For free, you can peruse every last priceless painting, armless…

If You Have This Credit Card, You Can Visit Museums for Free on Select Weekends

One out of every three museums in the United States could disappear because of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to research released last summer by the American Alliance of…

Immersive (and Socially Distanced) van Gogh Show Comes to Major U.S. Cities

On December 1, 1883, Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo, "But know this, brother, that I am absolutely cut off from the outer world—except from you." It was a common refrain in…

Follow in Frances McDormand’s Tire Tracks at “Nomadland” Filming Locations

In some ways, Chloé Zhao's Nomadland follows the template of classic film westerns such as those made by John Ford: Individuals struggle for survival and find community against the…

Go Inside Beijing's Forbidden City With Lush Images From This $995 Book

Beijing's imposing Forbidden City complex has been wowing travelers for centuries. Marco Polo called it the "greatest palace that ever was." Franz Kafka, who never visited China except…

“One Night in Miami” Puts Historic Black Hotel in Spotlight—and You Can Visit

The new film One Night in Miami, now streaming on Amazon Prime, depicts a 1964 meeting of four African American icons—boxer Cassius Clay (soon to rename himself Muhammad Ali), civil…