Category: Culture & Events

  • Sorø Kunstmuseum: Sophie Dupont and the Art of Attention

    Sorø Kunstmuseum: Sophie Dupont and the Art of Attention

    At Sorø Kunstmuseum, an empty room painted by Anna Ancher, a Russian icon of mother and child, and an installation shaped by visitors’ breathing offer three very different encounters with human presence. Their proximity is part of the museum’s interest: a visit can move between domestic observation, religious devotion and the experiments of contemporary art…

  • Frieze London 2026: What Deserves Our Attention

    Frieze London 2026: What Deserves Our Attention

    Frieze returns to Regent’s Park from 14–18 October. This year’s programme offers a rewarding route through contemporary painting, the politics of materials, domestic architecture and the changing interpretation of modern art. Every October, Frieze concentrates a substantial part of the international art world into a few days in London. Galleries arrive with new work and…

  • Copenhagen Now – October to December 2026

    Copenhagen Now – October to December 2026

    Art, design, fashion, literature, film, music, food and hospitality as the city moves from autumn into winter. Copenhagen changes character when the evenings draw in. The harbour ceases to be the centre of everybody’s social life, dinner moves indoors, and the city’s museums, cinemas and theatres begin to feel less like occasional destinations than places…

  • Chiang Mai: A Sky Full of Wishes

    Chiang Mai: A Sky Full of Wishes

    Chiang Mai in November, the ancient city of the Lanna kingdom, and the night the sky catches fire Last week this column made the case for Bangkok — overwhelming, oceanic, inexhaustible. This week it makes the case for its opposite. Chiang Mai is everything Bangkok is not: human-scaled, mountain-ringed, quieter by several orders of magnitude,…

  • The City That Never Resolves

    The City That Never Resolves

    The Passenger is a weekly dispatch on travel — places, hotels, restaurants, the strange logistics of being elsewhere. It is written by Bergotte. Bangkok in November, and why the most complex city in Southeast Asia deserves more than a night before the ferry Bangkok defeats the traveller who arrives with a plan. It is too…

  • The City People Keep Missing

    The City People Keep Missing

    The Passenger is a weekly dispatch on travel — places, hotels, restaurants, the strange logistics of being elsewhere. It is written by Bergotte. Athens in September, and the case for treating it as a destination rather than a gateway The standard relationship between the serious traveller and Athens is one of transit. You fly in,…

  • The Place That Refuses to Try

    The Place That Refuses to Try

    The Passenger is a weekly dispatch on travel — places, hotels, restaurants, the strange logistics of being elsewhere. It is written by Bergotte. Comporta, Portugal, and the particular luxury of somewhere that has decided not to become anything other than itself There is a type of place that becomes fashionable precisely because it has not…

  • Copenhagen Now – September 2026

    Copenhagen Now – September 2026

    Music, Design, Fashion, Literature, Film, Hotels, Food, Art & the City The City Between Summer and Seriousness There is a particular moment in Copenhagen when summer has not quite disappeared, but the cultural year has unmistakably begun. The evenings can still be spent outside, Tivoli is still illuminated, bicycles continue to crowd the bridges and…

  • What’s Going On This Autumn?

    What’s Going On This Autumn?

    What’s on in the world’s cultural capitals from September through December 2026 — the exhibitions, operas, theatre, and art fairs worth travelling for…

  • The Season Opens

    The Season Opens

    The Passenger is a weekly dispatch on travel — places, hotels, restaurants, the strange logistics of being elsewhere. It is written by Bergotte. Vienna in September, and what happens when a city built for culture remembers what it is for Vienna in July and August belongs, with varying degrees of reluctance, to the tourists. They…