A glorious gift of European artworks at NY’s Metropolitan Museum

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Selections from the trove donated by the late Jayne Wrightsman includes stunning works by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Jean...

Venice rises from the waves

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Andrea Grisdale of Travel and Leisure writes: When I heard that Mayor Luigi Brugnaro declared a state of emergency after...

Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us Is a Brutal Look at a 30-Year-Old Injustice

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This is what 47 Plus settled down with on a grey Saturday afternoon - a new Netflix miniseries about the...

Paris for the very first time

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Paris by night Paris in the smog So, a friend has hit 47, and this is the first opportunity to...

The Hotel de Russie at Sunday brunch – a star-studded event

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This story is about four things: The Hotel de Russie's garden, the power of the unexpected, the benefits of solo...

The Cipriani dream turns 60 – and it’s better than ever

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Quite some time ago, I was sent, like a piece of baggage, to the Cipriani in Venice. Lana Dopper, then...

10 questions with Giampaolo Ottazzi of the Belmond Hotel Cipriani

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Born in Genoa, Giampaolo Ottazzi has worked in luxury hotels for more than 35 years. Now Direttore D'Albergo presso (General...

When fashion loses its meaning, it’s time for style

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Fashion has entered a state of pure postmodernism where anything goes and nothing means anything anymore, argues Eugene Rabkin. In...